Senior Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner

Northumbria Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Cramlington; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking dedicated professionals to join their safeguarding team. This role offers a unique opportunity to work with adults at risk, providing vital support and advice while collaborating with various agencies. You will play a crucial role in enhancing the safety and well-being of vulnerable individuals. The organization is committed to staff development and well-being, offering flexible working options and a supportive environment. If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of others, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Flexible Working

Generous Annual Leave

Pension Scheme

Access to Wellbeing Hub

Professional Development Opportunities

On-site Nursery

Savings Scheme

Lease Car Scheme

Qualifications

• Professional qualification in relevant subject (Nursing, AHP, etc.).
• Experience in safeguarding and multi-agency collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist safeguarding advice and support across the Trust.
• Contribute to the delivery of a proactive safeguarding service.
• Develop and deliver safeguarding training for staff.

Skills

Communication Skills

Safeguarding Knowledge

Multi-Agency Working

Leadership Skills

Mental Health Awareness

Education

Professional Qualification in Nursing or AHP

Registered Mentor

Job description

Job summary

Registered professionals - Nurses, AHP and ParamedicsBand 7Permanent

Full time

Flexible working

Compressed hours

Job ref319-7071673LTEmployerNorthumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustEmployer typeNHSSiteSafeguarding HubTownCramlingtonSalary£46,148 - £52,809 Pro rata, per annumSalary periodYearlyClosing09/04/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Band 7

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you

Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub

Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups

A range of flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave and pension scheme

Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)

Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes

On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice

Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arise with the safeguarding and learning disability liaison team within Northumbria Healthcare Trust. We are looking for a dynamic, professionally curious and experienced person, with either a Nursing, AHP or paramedic background to work within our adult safeguarding section of the team. The role is diverse and exciting, no two days are the same! We are looking for an excellent communicator, someone who is passionate about making a change to adults at risk using a holistic approach .

In addition to the job description the role would be providing specialist advice and support to staff around complex patients with mental health and safeguarding concerns throughout the trust, Liaising with partner agencies. The post holder would also be responsible of developing and expanding the current Frequent Attender process and have good knowledge of safeguarding policies and procedures within this remit. Experience of working with the MHA and the MCA is essential.

Main duties of the job

To work Trust wide as required, providing a service to all employees including covering safeguarding services.

There will be a requirement to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service including shift patterns which cover 7 days working and on call sessions.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?

Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will work with the Team Lead Safeguarding Adults, MCA/DoLS and MHA Lead and the Named Nurse, Named Midwife to ensure that the delivery of safeguarding is safe and has a robust governance and performance management framework.

To contribute to the delivery of a proactive, responsive, specialist safeguarding adults service as part of the Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust Safeguarding Team. To work with a ‘think family’ approach, to identify wider vulnerabilities and ensure adequate plans are in place to address these.

Working in partnership with staff and key stakeholders, to develop and deliver both single agency and multi-agency safeguarding training.

Contribute to local Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hubs (MASH) by providing and analyzing complex health information and participating in Multi-Agency decision making; offering constructive challenge and appropriate escalation where appropriate.

To provide specialist safeguarding supervision for clinical and non-clinical staff. To support Trust staff in undertaking their responsibilities in relation to Safeguarding adults, children and unborn’s and develop their skills around this.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Professional Qualification to degree level in relevant subject i.e.Registered Nurse or Midwife, Social Worker, or Allied Health Professional (AHP) with live professional registration

Registered Mentor

Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period).

Desirable criteria

Management/leadership qualification

Best interest Assessor Qualification

Experience & Knowledge

Essential criteria

Significant experience working with adults at risk , children, unborns, families and carers. Within a safeguarding arena

Significant multi-agency working

Experience of safeguarding in current role.

Other Requirement

Essential criteria

It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

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Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.