Safeguarding Practitioner - Child

Isle Of Wight Nhs Trust; Newport; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 38,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site nursery

Beach Hut access

Wellness Centre (gym & pool)

Staff networks (LGBTQ, Race Equality,

DisAbility network

Job summary

Isle of Wight NHS Trust is seeking a Safeguarding Practitioner (Child) on a 9-month secondment to support the safeguarding service at St Mary's Hospital on the Isle of Wight. You will collaborate with staff across Trust services, provide operational safeguarding support, and help deliver safeguarding training while ensuring compliance with statutory requirements.

Applicants should hold nursing, social work or allied health professional qualifications, maintain UK registration, and demonstrate

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse, Social Work qualification and Allied health qualification are essential.
• Teaching and assessment qualification is desirable.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development is required.
• UK registration and safeguarding experience are essential.

Responsibilities

• Support safeguarding service across the Trust, advising on safeguarding matters.
• Liaise daily with clinical and non-clinical areas to identify safeguarding cases and ensure correct procedures are followed.
• Record, interpret and present health information impacting risk and needs assessments.
• Explain complex safeguarding information clearly to allied health and social care professionals.

Skills

Safeguarding knowledge

Policy & legislation knowledge

Interpersonal skills

IT skills

Prioritisation

Education

Registered Nurse

Social Work qualification

Allied health qualification

Teaching and assessment qualification

Job description

Job summary

This vacancy is open to employees of Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust only.

NHS Band 6 salary

£39,959 - £48,117 pro rata per annum

Actual salary £31,967 - £38,493 per annum

Hours per week

part time 30

Contract type

Secondment 9 months

Location Base

St Mary's Hospital, Parkhurst Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG

To support the Trust Safeguarding Service in performing their safeguarding duties and responsibilities by providing operational safeguarding children advice and support to all staff on a day-to-day basis.

Main duties of the job

• To support the Trust in maintaining compliance to statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements set out in safeguarding law and policy.
• Liaise on a daily basis with clinical and non-clinical areas to ascertain any new safeguarding child cases and ensure the correct procedures are being followed.
• To record, interpret and present health information and issues that can impact on the risk or needs assessment of adults who may be at risk of, or experiencing neglect and/or abuse, from a range of health perspectives. This may involve disclosing relevant information regarding allied health and social carer organisations, ensuring the information is processed fairly and proportionately.
• Explain clearly and with sound rationale, highly complex safeguarding adult information to a wide range of allied health and social care professionals.

About us

Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.

The single corporate service is delivered across both organisations. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans' status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

Details

Date posted: 08 September 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 6

Salary: £31,967 to £38,493 a year

(NHS Band 6 salary: £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata per annum)

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 12 months

Working pattern: Part-time

Reference number: REF2450Z

Job locations: St Mary's Hospital, Parkhurst Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

This is an opportunity to join the Safeguarding Service, place based on the Isle of Wight, for a secondment to cover Maternity Leave.

• The Post holder is required to hold a relevant qualification i.e., Registered Nurse, Social Work Qualification, Allied health Professional Qualification with relevant experience of adults / child / maternity safeguarding.
• Provide operational safeguarding support to all Trust services and inform Safeguarding All Age Specialist Practitioner and Named Nurse / Professional Lead for Safeguarding of current concerns/trends expressed by frontline staff.
• To assist the Safeguarding Service in the delivery of safeguarding training
• To support the development and implementation of safeguarding practice across the Trust.
• To ensure effective multi agency liaison, meeting the statutory requirements by providing support and advice to all areas of the Trust.
• To support the trust Safeguarding Service in performing their safeguarding duties and responsibilities through advice to operational services, escalation of concerns to/from other agencies and effective feedback and support from safeguarding meetings and forums.
• To assist in audit and reporting of safeguarding processes, actions, and outcomes across the Trust.
• To assist the Safeguarding Specialist Practitioner / Named Nurse / Professional for Safeguarding to embed a Family Approach towards safeguarding across the trust.
• To maintain and improve the understanding of what constitutes a safeguarding referral and ensure the quality of safeguarding referrals
• To work in collaboratively with Divisions supporting the Section 42 enquiry process and ensuring learning is embedded within operational practice.

For full job details, please refer to enclosed Job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse
• Qualification in Social Work
• Allied health professional Qualification i.e., Speech and Language Therapy, Specialist Dentistry, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy
• Evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Teaching and assessment qualification.
• Post registration experience of safeguarding adults.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of national and local safeguarding adult polices guidelines and recommendations
• Knowledge of relevant legislation relating to safeguarding adults
• Demonstrates knowledge of abuse and neglect
• Knowledge of the Local Authority Multi-Agency Safeguarding Adult Hub (MASH) agenda
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills
• Good IT skills, email, word and excel
• Ability to prioritise, work flexibly and to tight deadlinesCompletion of audits, reports, and chronologies
• Non-judgemental and self-motivated.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name: Isle of Wight NHS Trust

Address: St Mary's Hospital, Parkhurst Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://www.iow.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Hiring Manager

Victoria Kalaker

[e-mail]

Supporting documents

Privacy notice

Isle of Wight NHS Trust's privacy notice (opens in a new tab)

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.

Safeguarding Practitioner - Child Newport, United Kingdom