Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner - Child | University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 12 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 pa |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 May 2024 |
| Location: | Dorset, BH7 7DW |
| Company: | Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6209916/153-CO03051 |
Summary
University Hospitals Dorset are looking for a Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner for Children.
Our Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner post is a visible, operational role ensuring that children and young people who use our services are seen, heard and supported to feel safe. Working with families and staff to ensure the child is at the heart of decision making and that robust safeguarding practice is embedded within all our teams, regardless of a person's role.
Our practitioners maintain enablers for staff (policy/intranet resources) to work confidently and safely with children and families.
We work as a joint safeguarding team with specialist adult practitioners and domestic abuse advocates.
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital but you will be required to work across site
Interview Date: TBC
• Ensure that the voice of the child is heard and safeguarding children is embedded in services developments.
• Lead the promotion of good professional practice for safeguarding children providing specialist advice and expertise on a daily basis to Trust staff.
• Develop effective multiagency working and liaison, with a particular focus for complex cases and discharge planning across the Child Health Unit, Adult wards where children are hosted and Emergency Department.
• Contribute to the development and facilitation of Safeguarding training and supervision for identified Trust Staff.
• To identify and encourage improvement and innovation in the delivery of the Safeguarding service.
• To analyse information pertaining to safeguarding, identifying trends or areas for improvement are quickly identified and escalated to the Head of Safeguarding.
• To be responsible for the return of quality audit/reports, ensuring learning is shared and actions taken.
• Engage and work effectively with a range of partner organisations to safeguard children in hospital and the wider community (e.g. Safeguarding Children Partnerships, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Local Authorities, Police, Education, Primary care, voluntary sectors, housing, courts and the general public)
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
This advert closes on Sunday 28 Apr 2024
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