Band 7 Senior Practitioner - Safeguarding Adults- Bath

Job overview

This is an exciting time to join our safeguarding team, we work trust wide supporting practitioners working with safeguarding adults. The post holder will be responsible for supporting practitioners in an identified locality, in addition to supporting safeguarding colleagues Trust wide.

About you

As an ideal Candidate you will be forward thinking, innovative and looking to further develop your career in the Safeguarding arena. Experience of working within mental health and learning disabilities is desirable.

Senior Practitioner Safeguarding Adults ( band 7)

You will have a proven track record in safeguarding and be able to demonstrate extensive knowledge and skills relevant to safeguarding and able to apply the relevant legal framework. A Professional Qualification in health and social care is essential.

You will be operating as a lead practitioner for safeguarding within a defined geographical area and will have a thematic trust wide lead for a specific area of safeguarding practice e.g. modern slavery or self-neglect.

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• Working Trust wide supporting AWP practitioners with management of safeguarding concerns affecting their service users.
• Taking the lead for safeguarding arrangements in the locality including completing multi-agency audits and writing IMRs for safeguarding adult reviews etc...
• Support practitioners with safeguarding meetings and multi-agency strategy discussions.
• Safeguarding team provide support in relation to: safeguarding adults, safeguarding children, domestic abuse, MAPPA and PREVENT.

Working for our organisation

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all-round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Safeguarding

To provide specialist professional advice on managing adult safeguarding cases, and work to assist in developing effective multiagency working to safeguard adults

To work within a designated locality

To provide specialist professional advice on managing MAPPA and Prevent cases and work to assist in developing effective multiagency working in MAPPA and Prevent

To provide professional advice on managing safeguarding children and domestic abuse cases

To provide professional advice on initial management of cases involving allegations against AWP staff, volunteers or services, and ensure that any such allegations are reported to the Trust Allegations Officer

• To attend and report to the Trust governance groups/committees in an advisory capacity

• To be an active member of the local and regional safeguarding networks and working groups

To cover duty where required.

• To work with the clinical audit department to ensure effective rollout of trust audit programmes in the area(s) of responsibility and assure follow through on recommended actions

• To participate in the development and implementation of appropriate policy and performance frameworks, to support staff to recognise, understand and meet their duties of care in relation to relevant legislation, in areas of responsibility

• To participate in the development of, and the delivery of specialist safeguarding training and practice development

• To participate in the development and implementation of Trust work plans, to assist the trust in meeting statutory, regulatory, and performance standards

• To be responsible for the development of specific Trust policies, procedures and guidance for safeguarding, as directed

• To facilitate effective working arrangements with service users and carers, both directly and through PALS, in relation to safeguarding

• To provide cover for other Senior Practitioners- Safeguarding, as required.

Leadership

• To be responsible for the management and reporting of specific projects as directed

• Contribute to the professional development of other staff in this specific area of professional practice as required

• To deputise, and provide cover, for the Trust Deputy/Head of Safeguarding, both on an identified standing basis, and on an ad hoc one, as required

Performance Management

• Responsible for undertaking audit, benchmarking in conjunction with Governance colleagues to ensure learning outcomes are reflected and implemented

• To support the effective performance and functioning of safeguarding in practice, learning from experience, and management oversight by operational services

Communication

• Ensure advice is available to the full range of specialties within the organisation on the day today management of safeguarding

• To liaise with the Trust named doctor and Lead named professional/nurse, as appropriate

• Work across external organisation’s and within AWP (which includes a good deal of cross-site travel) using various methods of communication (e.g. face-to-face, electronic media) to raise the profile and reputation of the services offered, and to build and sustain the confidence of our local population in our current and future service

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with ‘lived-experience’ of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,– we are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

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Please apply to join us, we would love to hear from you. Any personal details you supply to us are kept safe in line with the General Data Protection Regulations.

Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system ‘TRAC’. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us, via the TRAC system, if you have any queries about your application.

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