Senior Safeguarding Practitioner – Child & Adult Protection

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester is seeking an experienced Band 7 Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner to join our safeguarding team. You will support staff, lead safeguarding enquiries, and contribute to safeguarding policy and practice across the organisation.

This role requires a registered healthcare professional with a passion for protecting children, young people and vulnerable adults. You will train staff, collaborate with local authorities, police and voluntary sector

Qualifications

• Provide expert safeguarding advice and support to clinical and non-clinical staff.
• Lead on safeguarding enquiries, complex cases, and safeguarding risk assessments.
• Contribute to safeguarding policies, procedures, and best practice.
• Deliver safeguarding supervision, education, and training programmes.
• Work collaboratively with partner agencies, including local authorities, police, health, and voluntary sector organisations.
• Contribute to safeguarding audits, reviews, quality improvement initiatives, and assurance reporting.
• Support learning from safeguarding adult reviews, child safeguarding practice reviews, domestic homicide reviews, and other multi-agency processes.
• Support vulnerable people, autistic people, and people with learning disabilities to identify reasonable adjustments, and work with their clinical teams improve their patient's experience.
• Promote a culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility

Job description

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester is seeking an experienced Band 7 Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner to join our safeguarding team. You will support staff, lead safeguarding enquiries, and contribute to safeguarding policy and practice across the organisation.

This role requires a registered healthcare professional with a passion for protecting children, young people and vulnerable adults. You will train staff, collaborate with local authorities, police and voluntary sector