Safeguarding Practitioner | Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust; Newton Hill; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare service is seeking a dedicated Safeguarding Practitioner to join their Safeguarding Team. This role involves providing expert advice, leading safeguarding inquiries, and collaborating with various agencies to ensure the safety of children and vulnerable adults. The position includes flexible working options and numerous benefits enhancing employee well-being and development.

Benefits

Flexible working including part-time hours

27 days annual leave

Contributory Pension

NHS Discounts

Car lease and salary sacrifice schemes

Employee assistance and counselling service

Responsibilities

• Provide expert advice and support to frontline staff and managers on safeguarding matters.
• Lead on initial safeguarding enquiries and contribute to timely and proportionate responses.
• Work collaboratively with internal teams and external partners to ensure effective safeguarding interventions.
• Support the development of safeguarding practice through training and supervision.

Skills

Compassionate

Strong communication

Team collaboration

Job description

Overview

Join a Team Making a Difference

Are you a compassionate and driven professional with a passion for safeguarding? We are offering an exciting opportunity to join our dedicated Safeguarding Team as a Safeguarding Practitioner within Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

This pivotal role supports the Trust’s statutory safeguarding responsibilities and plays a vital part in promoting the safety, protection, and wellbeing of children, young people, and adults at risk across our services. You will be at the forefront of safeguarding practice—responding to concerns, undertaking initial scoping, and contributing to multi-agency safeguarding processes.

This role offers the opportunity to work within a supportive and forward-thinking team, where your contribution will directly enhance service resilience, improve outcomes for vulnerable individuals, and support the wellbeing and development of colleagues.

You will work closely with the Head of Safeguarding, Paediatric Liaison Nurses, and Named Professionals to deliver high-quality safeguarding practice, respond to enquiries, and contribute to multi-agency safeguarding processes.

As a Safeguarding Practitioner, you will

• Provide expert advice and support to frontline staff and managers on safeguarding matters.
• Lead on initial safeguarding enquiries and contribute to timely and proportionate responses.
• Work collaboratively with internal teams and external partners to ensure effective safeguarding interventions.
• Support the development of safeguarding practice through training, supervision, and dissemination of learning.

About Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) NHS Trust

Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) NHS Trust geographically covers nearly 6,000 square miles of varied terrain, from isolated moors and dales to urban areas, coastline and inner cities.

We serve a population of over five million people across Yorkshire and the Humber and strive to ensure that patients receive the right response to their care needs as quickly as possible, wherever they live.

We employ more than 7,100 staff, who together with over 1,300 volunteers, enable us to provide a vital 24-hour, seven-days-a-week, emergency and healthcare service.

Our ambition is to be an employer of choice, and we are continuously working across our partnership to improve our collective offer to staff in areas like health and wellbeing, benefits and flexible working incl. hybrid working.

Benefits

• Flexible working including part-time hours, job shares and flexible hours, agile working (role dependant)
• 27 days annual leave, increasing to 33 with service.
• Contributory Pension.
• NHS Discounts including shops, restaurants, gyms etc.
• Car lease and other salary sacrifice schemes (salary dependent)
• Dedicated employee assistance and counselling service.
• Opportunities for research participation, career progression and ongoing development.
• Well respected, committed and supported staff networks for our workforce.

Check out our YAS One Team Simulation! https://www.nwyhelearning.nhs.uk/elearning/yorksandhumber/yas/yasoneteam/index.html

For a full description of the main responsibilities of the role please see attached Job description.

This advert closes on Sunday 2 Nov 2025