Senior Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Cramlington; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000

Job description

Band 7

Main area Registered professionals - Nurses, AHP and Paramedics Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working
• Compressed hours

37.5 hours per week (Full time hours over 4 days if suitable) Job ref 319-7071673LT

Site Safeguarding Hub Town Cramlington Salary £46,148 - £52,809 Pro rata, per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 09/04/2025 23:59

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). 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 and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you :

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen with the safeguarding and learning disability liaison team within Northumbria Healthcare Trust. We are looking for a dynamic, professionally curious and experienced person, with either a Nursing, AHP or paramedic background to work within our adult safeguarding section of the team. The role is diverse and exciting, no two days are the same! We are looking for an excellent communicator, someone who is passionate about making a change to adults at risk using a holistic approach.

In addition to the job description the role would be providing specialist advice and support to staff around complex patients with mental health and safeguarding concerns throughout the trust, liaising with partner agencies. The post holder would also be responsible for developing and expanding the current Frequent Attender process and have good knowledge of safeguarding policies and procedures within this remit. Experience of working with the MHA and the MCA is essential.

Main duties of the job

• To work Trust wide as required, providing a service to all employees including covering safeguarding services.
• There will be a requirement to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service including shift patterns which cover 7 days working and on call sessions.
• 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• The post holder will work with the Team Lead Safeguarding Adults, MCA/DoLS and MHA Lead and the Named Nurse, Named Midwife to ensure that the delivery of safeguarding is safe and has a robust governance and performance management framework.
• To contribute to the delivery of a proactive, responsive, specialist safeguarding adults service as part of the Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust Safeguarding Team. To work with a ‘think family’ approach, to identify wider vulnerabilities and ensure adequate plans are in place to address these.
• Working in partnership with staff and key stakeholders, to develop and deliver both single agency and multi-agency safeguarding training.
• Contribute to local Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hubs (MASH) by providing and analyzing complex health information and participating in Multi-Agency decision making; offering constructive challenge and appropriate escalation where appropriate.
• To provide specialist safeguarding supervision for clinical and non-clinical staff. To support Trust staff in undertaking their responsibilities in relation to Safeguarding adults, children and unborns and develop their skills around this.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Professional Qualification to degree level in relevant subject i.e. Registered Nurse or Midwife, Social Worker, or Allied Health Professional (AHP) with live professional registration
• Registered Mentor
• Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period).
• Best interest Assessor Qualification

Experience & Knowledge

• Significant experience working with adults at risk, children, unborns, families and carers. Within a safeguarding arena
• Significant multi-agency working
• Experience of safeguarding in current role.

Other Requirement

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Positive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!