Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner (Childrens)
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 25 Chwefror 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £38,682.00 i £46,580.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £38682.00 - £46580.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 15 Mawrth 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Nottingham,, NG2 2JG |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | B9826-PCNF-6429 |
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Job Purpose To work within the integrated safeguarding team supporting staff across Nottingham CityCare Partnership to perform their safeguarding duties within the Think Family model. To support the development of safeguarding practice across the organisation, through the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of safeguarding processes, and in response to learnings derived from local and national incidents. To communicate effectively with staff of all levels and with multi-agency partners to share information, escalate concerns and effectively feedback from safeguarding meetings and forums. To support in the development and delivery of Safeguarding Children, Adult and Domestic Abuse training to ensure staff have the skills and knowledge required to perform their roles in line with current legislation and guidance. Dimensions You will work in the team base to cover the Duty service on a rotational basis, and you will work in any of the team bases across the city to support staff within the organisation. You will support in undertaking audits and reviews and implementing action plans and lessons learned across the organisation. You will attend a variety of multi-agency safeguarding meetings and act as representative for Nottingham CityCare Partnership and have responsibility for sharing, receiving, and disseminating relevant information. You will be responsible for security of goods/equipment needed for training laptop, projector, screen, training materials. You will be responsible for the provision and evaluation of training. Key Responsibilities The post holder will work with a range of key professionals and partner agencies to contribute to the on-going implementation of safeguarding practice to protect and promote the welfare of children, young people, adults at risk and those experiencing domestic abuse. Provide safeguarding advice to CityCare staff from both Children and Adult services through delivery of the Safeguarding Teams duty advice service. Actively encourage and support frontline staff to adopt a Think Family approach and consider the needs of dependents or other significant people in the patient's network/household when providing care. Support and advise the safeguarding reporting and management process. Ensure front-line practitioners are appropriately advised regarding the principles and application of safe and legal information sharing within a safeguarding arena. Actively contribute to working groups and other relevant corporate and service delivery groups and committees to achieve positive outcomes in relation to safeguarding. Demonstrate knowledge and skill in current evidenced-based safeguarding practice and the ability to transfer this into practice through the provision of advice and other duties. Advise, inform and escalate safeguarding concerns to the Safeguarding Lead Professional or Named Nurse for Safeguarding/Head of Safeguarding as appropriate. Report verbally and in writing any accidents, complaints, untoward incidents and near misses as per policy. Be an active member of the CityCare safeguarding network and wider safeguarding forums/networks as appropriate and engage in supervision with the Safeguarding Lead Professional Assist the service to gather evidence to provide internal and external assurance as required and assess organisational and service position in relation to safeguarding standards. To support CityCare's contribution to the MARAC process through record reviews, MARAC attendance and multi-agency safety planning. The post holder may be required to support the ongoing delivery of the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) Health. Communication Provide advice and appropriate safeguarding supervision to clinical and non-clinical staff at the point of need regarding safeguarding children, adults at risk, and domestic abuse, working pro-actively and reactively to engage frontline staff. Provide advice to staff on consent, capacity to consent and information sharing in relation to safeguarding. Support staff with reporting, both written and verbal accounts, for formal safeguarding processes, including child protection conferences, child in need meetings, strategy discussions/ meetings, police statements, court statements or hearings; and the co-ordination of multi-agency meetings that support safeguarding processes. Effectively contribute to multi-agency panel meetings, and internal and external safeguarding meetings as required. Support frontline staff to respectfully challenge decision making, utilising the escalation process as necessary. To contribute towards the identification of any learning from serious incidents involving CityCare, communicating this both verbally and in writing and supporting the implementation of action plans to support improved outcomes for patients. Policies and Procedures Implementation of all local and national safeguarding policies, procedures, and guidance. Ensure that staff are familiar with organisational policy and local safeguarding procedures and that these are being followed where actual or potential harm is identified. Contribute to the review, development, and implementation of CityCares safeguarding relevant procedures and policies, to ensure alignment with national guidance and Local Safeguarding Partnership/Board and where consultation with other CityCare services may be required to develop procedures that make a difference to the health and wellbeing of patients and represent realistic expectations of service delivery. Training Contribute to the development, co-ordination, delivery, and evaluation of the CityCare safeguarding training strategy and programme in line with the CityCare safeguarding training matrix and Core Skills Framework, in conjunction with Safeguarding Lead Professionals and Safeguarding Partners. Monitor, audit, and review training delivered to ensure that training meets the needs of CityCare staff and is of a consistently high standard that remains contemporaneous with current evidence base and local and national guidance. Participate in the delivery of both CityCare specific safeguarding training and multi-agency training where appropriate Monitoring Support the Safeguarding Leads and Head of Safeguarding to arrange, develop and co-ordinate systems of audit to monitor the agreed local and national policies and procedures, audits, and inspection in order to evaluate and improve the quality and effectiveness of safeguarding practice within CityCare. Assist with the collection of data in Rapid Reviews, Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and Serious Incident investigations, including producing chronologies and taking accounts from staff. Support the implementation of recommendations from internal and external safeguarding reviews.