Senior Safeguarding Children Practitioner

Responsibilities - To support the safeguarding work of frontline nursing staff and other staff in appropriate cases and exercise good leadership skills.- Responsible for providing, receiving and disseminating highly complex, sensitive and confidential information appropriately.- To provide specialist advice and support to nurses, doctors, other health professionals and other staff within the Trust involved in actual or suspected cases of safeguarding maltreatment.- Co-ordinate the Trusts multi-disciplinary response in safeguarding cases, ensuring that decisions and interventions are appropriate and timely, and are made by professionals with a sufficient level of education, experience and competence.- To provide one-to-one or group safeguarding supervision to all staff Trust-wide involved in safeguarding cases on a case-by-case basis.- To participate in the development and delivery of high-quality and research-based safeguarding training across the Trust to a wide variety of disciplines.

Experience / Skill - Relevant experience of working with safeguarding cases in a variety of settings involving adults or childrens services.- Knowledge of safeguarding legislation, current issues, and inquiry reports for adults and children.- Experience in attending safeguarding strategies case conferences/participating in protection plans- Ability to have difficult conversations whilst maintaining a positive, professional manner.- Able to manage own workload autonomously.- Synthesise information quickly and able to communicate the information.