The Safeguarding Lead sits in the Safeguarding Team of East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust, covering Pan Bedfordshire. The post gives specialist advice, supervision and training on children and adults at risk to frontline clinical staff, and promotes the Think Family approach across services. It also involves multi-agency meetings, audits and input to Single Point of Access decisions, as part of the locality leadership team. Candidates need a registration as a nurse, health visitor, midwife or with Social Work England, or a specialist public health degree.
What the job involves
- Lead on the development of agreed areas of safeguarding practice across the Trust
- Provide specialist safeguarding advice, support and leadership to staff on children and adults at risk
- Promote and embed the Think Family approach across clinical services
- Support the clinical governance of safeguarding children and adult safeguarding processes
- Deliver safeguarding supervision and guidance to frontline practitioners
- Contribute to the design, delivery and evaluation of safeguarding training programmes
- Take part in safeguarding audits and quality improvement activities
- Represent the safeguarding team at multi-agency meetings and sub-groups
- Work with partner agencies on learning from reviews and safeguarding practice developments
- Support safeguarding decision-making and advice within Single Point of Access services
- Act as a visible safeguarding leader, supporting colleagues and promoting best practice across the Trust
What’s required
Qualifications
- Degree or equivalent
- Evidence of further training in safeguarding children and professional development
Registration & licences
- Registered nurse, health visitor or midwife, or registered with Social Work England, or a specialist degree in community or public health
Experience
- Post-qualification experience in a specialist practitioner role, including working autonomously with children and young people
- Experience of safeguarding children and working with families, and of promoting best practice
Skills & knowledge
- Understanding of the Think Family model and of identifying adults at risk
- Understanding of safeguarding legislation, national guidance and policy, including confidentiality
- Knowledge of models of supervision
- Knowledge of patterns of abuse and neglect, and of assessing need and harm
- Understanding of the nature of abuse and neglect, and of acting on information to protect people
- Professional curiosity and the ability to identify, manage and challenge safeguarding concerns
Other
- Effective verbal, written and presentation communication, with advanced report writing
- Effective team and multi-agency collaborative working
- Managing workload, prioritising and meeting deadlines
- Keeping a child focus and facilitating Think Family with health practitioners
- Advising other agencies on people's health needs
Nice to have
- NSPCC or other Trust-accredited safeguarding supervision training, or other relevant training
- Recognised professional teaching qualification
- Experience of clinical supervision and mentoring
- Experience of working in a MASH or multi-agency setting
- Individual and group supervision facilitation skills
- IT skills
What’s offered
- A culture that prioritises staff engagement and development
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
