Senior Safeguarding Practitioner

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.

We care for over half a million patients every year:

• Provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
• Nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
• Regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
• Deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients' own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.

More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.

We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.

If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact or phone .

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work and invite you to join our BHT family.

Job overview

This is a fixed-term maternity cover opportunity for an experienced safeguarding practitioner to join the Corporate Safeguarding Team. Whilst working within an integrated all-age safeguarding service, the post holder will predominantly support the children's safeguarding function, providing expert advice, support, supervision and training across acute and community services. The role contributes to the Trust's statutory safeguarding responsibilities and promotes positive outcomes for children, young people and their families.

We are looking for an experienced practitioner who is currently working within a safeguarding setting, either in an all-age safeguarding role or one focused on children or adults at risk. Applicants with experience in either area are encouraged to apply; however, the successful candidate will be expected to develop and maintain expertise in safeguarding children and child protection to support the primary focus of this role.

Main duties of the job

The adult and children's safeguarding teams are based at Stoke Mandeville Hospital but have responsibility for working with acute and community services provided, which will therefore require travel trustwide.

This post will work within the integrated safeguarding team in order to provide:

• expert advice and support for colleagues in relation to safeguarding adults and child protection concerns
• safeguarding adults and child protection training for all colleagues
• safeguarding adults and child protection supervision for colleagues
• support paediatric liaison activities to enhance continuity of care and integrated child health services.
• effective communication channels with the Buckinghamshire Safeguarding Adults and Children's boards
• robust internal policies and guidelines for safeguarding adults and child protection.

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• As part of our BHT family, you'll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

• We are committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and

What do we stand for?

• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on quoting the vacancy reference number.

Person specification EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

• NMC Registered Nurse/Registered Nurse /RMN/RNLD, Registered Social worker or Registered HCPC AHP
• Degree related to professional role or extensive relevant experience and willingness to undertake further education
• Experience of delivering training

EXPERIENCE

• Experience of working in a clinical area in community or acute as a Band 6 or 7 with a minimum of 3 years' experience in that grade
• Clear Safeguarding experience (at least 3 years), with a highly developed specialist knowledge of the subject area and clear evidence of directly taking part in safeguarding processes and enquiries.
• Knowledge of local and national guidance and research in relation to safeguarding adults and children
• Knowledge of legal framework and of political and policy changes affecting safeguarding adults and children
• Knowledge of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Mental Capacity Act, Liberty of Protection Safeguards and associated health and social care legislation
• Knowledge of data protection and NHS code of confidentiality
• Experience of working with safeguarding policies and procedures
• Experience with close liaison with multi-disciplinary teams and multiagency staff
• Awareness and understanding of the wider health and safety, clinical risk, and quality issues. Awareness and understanding of equality and diversity
• Experience of safeguarding supervision as supervisee
• Experience of safeguarding supervision as supervisor
• Evidence of managing clinical incidents and /or complaints

SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE

• Excellent interpersonal skills to enable effective working with all groups and all levels of staff, other agencies and public
• Ability to self-manage workload and ensure it is prioritised appropriately
• Experience in producing clear and concise reports to convey information fully and accurately to enable effective multidisciplinary and multi-agency working for the purpose of safeguarding children and/or adults at risk
• Ability to initiate and conduct audits and develop action plans for the purpose of monitoring and improving safeguarding practices within the Trust
• IT Literacy skills sufficient to produce reports, conduct research and communicate via e-mail
• Ability to facilitate learning in others using a variety of methods
• Ability to analyse issues / problems and devise and implement appropriate plan of action
• Able to question and analyse information and to make sound judgements often under pressure in difficult circumstances
• Ability to work under pressure and deal with confrontation

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

• Full UK Driving License to enable travel between sites and off-site meetings

PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.

Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.

Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.

Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.

Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.

Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.

Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.

Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.