Specialist Practitioner- Safeguarding.
| Posting date: | 26 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 February 2026 |
| Location: | Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE27 0QJ |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7742914/319-7742914JN |
Summary
A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Are you looking for a change of direction in your career?.
We currently have a vacancy for a Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner to join our busy Safeguarding team. We are looking for someone who is keen to contribute to the delivery of a proactive, responsive, safeguarding service, working in partnership with staff and key stakeholders, to deliver high quality advice, guidance, support and training whilst supporting the Trust's commitment to safeguarding babies, children, young people, and adults at risk
This is a fast paced and diverse role, you will need the ability to think on your feet, be able to positively challenge colleagues and other agencies and have high levels of professional curiosity. If you think you have transferable skills and want to develop a career in safeguarding this may be the job for you!
To contribute to the delivery of a proactive, responsive, safeguarding service as part of the Northumbria Trust wide safeguarding team.
To provide advice, support, clinical supervision and training for clinical and non-clinical staff.
To be responsible for the organising and co-ordination of key pieces of work such as information sharing with internal wards, departments and within wider partnership processes such as MASH (Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub).
To support trust staff and partner agencies to understand safeguarding form a health perspective.
To exercise accountability as set out in the relevant Code of Professional Conduct.
To be responsible for responding to contacts into the team for advice and support and seeking senior advice and support as needed to maintain high service standards.
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.
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.
See attached job description for full information:
To identify and understand risks, analyse and help provide safe plans to care for people who are suffering / at risk of suffering abuse and neglect. This will include unborn babies, babies, children and adults.
To role model effective safeguarding- acting quickly and robustly to respond to risk and keep people safe.
To support Trust staff to understand and react appropriately to safeguarding issues.
Contribute to team assurance functions and data collection activities.
This advert closes on Monday 9 Feb 2026
Are you looking for a change of direction in your career?.
We currently have a vacancy for a Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner to join our busy Safeguarding team. We are looking for someone who is keen to contribute to the delivery of a proactive, responsive, safeguarding service, working in partnership with staff and key stakeholders, to deliver high quality advice, guidance, support and training whilst supporting the Trust's commitment to safeguarding babies, children, young people, and adults at risk
This is a fast paced and diverse role, you will need the ability to think on your feet, be able to positively challenge colleagues and other agencies and have high levels of professional curiosity. If you think you have transferable skills and want to develop a career in safeguarding this may be the job for you!
To contribute to the delivery of a proactive, responsive, safeguarding service as part of the Northumbria Trust wide safeguarding team.
To provide advice, support, clinical supervision and training for clinical and non-clinical staff.
To be responsible for the organising and co-ordination of key pieces of work such as information sharing with internal wards, departments and within wider partnership processes such as MASH (Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub).
To support trust staff and partner agencies to understand safeguarding form a health perspective.
To exercise accountability as set out in the relevant Code of Professional Conduct.
To be responsible for responding to contacts into the team for advice and support and seeking senior advice and support as needed to maintain high service standards.
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.
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.
See attached job description for full information:
To identify and understand risks, analyse and help provide safe plans to care for people who are suffering / at risk of suffering abuse and neglect. This will include unborn babies, babies, children and adults.
To role model effective safeguarding- acting quickly and robustly to respond to risk and keep people safe.
To support Trust staff to understand and react appropriately to safeguarding issues.
Contribute to team assurance functions and data collection activities.
This advert closes on Monday 9 Feb 2026