Safeguarding Adult and Children Specialist Practitioner
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Job overview
The LYPFT Safeguarding team are looking to recruit a highly motivated, experienced, registered nurse/AHP/Social worker with a background in safeguarding. The post holder will work equally across the safeguarding agenda for both children and adults at risk.The post holder will work as part of a team of safeguarding practitioners supporting the Head of safeguarding, Named Nurse for children and adults and the Trusts Named Doctor in ensuring the Trust discharges its responsibilities in relation to safeguarding children and adults at risk.
The post holder will need to demonstrate recent experience in safeguarding children and adults in a health care setting. The successful candidate will contribute to the development and implementation of the safeguarding agenda including policy and procedure, strategic planning and education and training as well as audit and evaluation.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide expert safeguarding advice on a daily basis to Trust staff managing adults children and families with complex safeguarding concerns. You will contribute to multi agency partnership working arrangements for both safeguarding adults and children.Planning, facilitating and delivery of safeguarding training is a key role along with the provision of safeguarding supervision across the Trust.
We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.
All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team [email protected]
Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.
Working for our organisation
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country.As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that any individual requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Registered practitioner Educated to degree level (Safeguarding /Health or Social Care. Evidence of up to date CPD.
Knowledge
Essential criteria- The post holder must have significant working knowledge of children’s and adults local authority services, with significant experience in safeguarding children’s work (link worker or equivalent). The post holder will demonstrate knowledge of the children’s act and will be aware of current affairs, Working together, Munroe report and recommendations. The post holder will have a working knowledge of the children’s act 2004 and the social care act 2014, substance misuse and domestic abuse and its impact on families.
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of interagency partnership working at a strategic level. Experience of providing investigative reports following serious incidents. Ability to prepare reports, analyse highly complex data for Boards, Committees and Management groups. Work closely with all Trust Managers to identify areas for improvement for Child and Adult Safeguarding and MAPPA practice, developing and implementing remedial action plans to address the issues. This post holder will demonstrate positive values with regard to families and children, The individual will be self-motivated but work under direction and should be assertive and positive with all agencies. The individual should champion safeguarding adults and children.
Skills
Essential criteria- The individual should be able to communicate effectively including negotiating skills and conflict management. The post holder must have demonstrable experience of audit design, implementation and evaluation. The post holder will be able to demonstrate knowledge of risk management process and systems and have experience of the wider public health agenda. The post holder will have experience of teaching or training.
- Change management, Leadership skills, Evidence of problem solving/ solution focussed thinking. Risk reduction skills, Evidence of research activity / critical appraisal skills. Commitment to evidence-based and contemporary practice. Demonstrates an awareness of the current NHS agenda (safe care delivery and abuse prevention issues).
Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.
Fixed Term Contracts for existing NHS Employees – temporary contracts for employees of LYPFT, or colleagues joining from another NHS Trust, will be offered on a secondment basis wherever possible. In the event this is not possible, an FTC would be issued and this would require a break in service of two weeks.
The purpose of a temporary is role could be for maternity cover, temporary funding or some other reason. At the end of which the need for the temporary work will cease. Temporary roles can stop, be extended and/or made permanent at any point during the period of work.Should the role become permanent then the post-holder will be informed of the process to be followed to convert the position to a permanent one.
Please note that from 1st July 2018, all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service, DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.
Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response.LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.
LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.
We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if enough applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible. In submitting an application form, you authorise Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.
In applying for a role please ensure that you only declare qualifications that are relevant to the role itself. We reserve the right to check all declared qualifications on an application form, whether they are directly relevant to the role or not.
If you have not received any communication from us within four weeks you are asked to assume that your application has been unsuccessful. If you should have any queries regarding progress with your application form please contact us.
Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.