Safeguarding Adult Practitioner

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Colchester; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional NHS organization is seeking a passionate Safeguarding Adults Practitioner to join their dynamic team. The role involves providing expertise in safeguarding, ensuring the welfare of vulnerable adults through coordinated care between hospital and community services. Applicants need proven experience in health or social care and relevant qualifications, alongside a commitment to professional development. The organization offers generous benefits, including training opportunities and a supportive work environment. Join us in making a difference to the care of our patients.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Flexible working options

27 days annual leave (pro rata)

Qualifications

• Proven post registration experience in health or social care sector.
• Experience in inter-agency work and safeguarding.
• Experience in both acute and community settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide knowledge and advice on safeguarding adults.
• Coordinate care and safety planning for vulnerable adults.
• Deliver training and education to staff.

Skills

Teamwork

Communication

Knowledge of safeguarding legislation

Audit and monitoring

Education

Relevant health or social care qualification

Relevant Safeguarding post basic training

1st level degree

Job description

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Safeguarding Adult Practitioner

The closing date is 21 December 2025

We are currently recruiting to our Safeguarding Families team and are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and innovative individual to join our dynamic and forward thinking team as Safeguarding Adults Practitioner.

The post holder will be a highly visible experienced practitioner, providing, with support from the Safeguarding Adults Lead, specialist knowledge and advice to all staff in the Trust and the community in all areas of Safeguarding Adults. With support from the Safeguarding Adults Lead you will provide the professional interface between hospital and community services with respect to the welfare of adults, providing a robust and safe communication system for the effective and timely flow of information between hospital and community health professionals and other agencies as appropriate.

The Safeguarding Adult Specialist Practitioner will work closely with the wider safeguarding and complex health teams to ensure a holistic approach to the care of the most vulnerable patients and their families in delivering safeguarding advice, support, training and supervision. The hospital provides an efficient and effective liaison and expert screening system and you will be sharing information to the appropriate community staff where there are specific health, social or safety concerns.

Main duties of the job

• Apply knowledge to support positive clinical outcomes and compassionate care for patients who are experiencing abuse and/or harm from others.
• Promote best practice and evidence based approaches to safeguarding adults at risk.
• Support the coordination of care and safety planning for people who require support to ensure there are safe environments, and support clinical teams to follow these and respond to escalation in concerns.
• Support the delivery of training and education to staff when they work with adults at risk.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across East Suffolk and North Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Experience

• Proven post registration experience of working within the health or social care sector.
• Experience in working with others as part of a team.
• Experience of working within the safeguarding arena.
• Experience of working within acute and community settings.
• Experience in audit and monitoring processes.

Qualifications

• Relevant health or social care qualification.
• Relevant Safeguarding post basic training or equivalent experience.
• Relevant teaching qualification or working towards.
• Educated to 1st level degree.

Knowledge

• Experience in inter‑agency work.
• Evidence of on-going professional learning.
• Knowledge of adult's services.
• Knowledge of legal framework for information sharing.
• Understanding of the NMC Codes of Conduct.
• Knowledge of legislation relevant to safeguarding adults.
• Knowledge of evidence based safeguarding adults practice.
• Experience in education and training.
• Knowledge of adult's rights.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.