Senior Practitioner Safeguarding
| Posting date: | 26 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £68,437.82 to £76,236.77 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £68437.82 - £76236.77 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 July 2025 |
| Location: | Jersey, JE2 3DN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | K0011-2736X3 |
Summary
1. Wider safeguarding responsibilities: to demonstrate and positively reinforce a personal commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults in our community. 2. Act as HCS representative on multiagency panels regularly and as required, e.g. Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) Jersey Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (JMAPPA) Community Adult Support Panel (CASP) and in the development of new and emerging initiatives. 3. To undertake a customer-facing, proactive and tailored safeguarding response to Jersey residents, their carers and their representatives in order to mitigate risk, promote recovery and build resilience. 4. Manage a personal caseload of more high risk or complex cases, working with service users and their families/carers in one or more social care specialist area which deliver health and social services to a range of users as outlined above. 5. To deputise or act in place of the Team Manager or Principle Social Worker representing Adult Social Care in forums such as the Safeguarding Partnership Board, Serious Case Reviews, Independent Management Report meetings and Thematic Reviews. 6. Manage and handle highly sensitive information with a sound understanding of confidentiality and information sharing protocols. 7. To demonstrate and use strong analytical skills - ability to apply a range of social work theories in practice and to demonstrate good analytical skills in work planning, problem solving, time management and working to deadlines. 8. To communicate and exercise levels of professional authority and decision making, for example in substantiating or not substantiating abuse, or making recommendations for actions in relation to the future protection of adults at risk. 9. To investigate abuse and neglect: to interview staff/clients, analyse and review evidence and put in immediate measures to prevent abuse from recurring. 10. To have and continuously develop legal literacy in order to respond appropriately to cases of abuse and neglect in a variety of settings, including the clients own home