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An exciting opportunity has become available for a Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional to join the adult side of our Safeguarding Team from July 2023 as a Specialist Practitioner for Safeguarding Adults.

The post is a part time, substantive, role and will require the post holder to work 22.5 hours over 3 days.

DCHS has a dedicated Safeguarding Service that provides training, supervision, and advice to a wide range of DCHS colleagues and services.

The Team promotes a Think Family safeguarding approach and ensures the Trust's legal safeguarding responsibilities are met to safeguard the needs of children, families, young people and adults within the Derbyshire community.

We work collaboratively and in partnership with the Derby and Derbyshire Adult Safeguarding Boards to reduce the risk of safeguarding concerns and share learning.

We are passionate about the importance of making safeguarding personal and that safeguarding is everyone's business.

We are looking for someone who has an interest and understanding of safeguarding, with analytical skills, who has experience of multi-agency partnership working.

There will be opportunity to work with and engage with stakeholders from Health and Social Care to aid with Safeguarding Policy development both within DCHS and via the Adult Safeguarding Board Subgroups.

The post holder will provide safeguarding advice and supervision, must have excellent communication skills and be able adapt to a varied work load.

The role involves report writing, auditing, attending and participating in Safeguarding Adult Reviews, Domestic Homicide Reviews, Next Steps meetings and sharing learning from cases to improve care and support service improvements.

An understanding of legal frameworks underpinning safeguarding is essential to support the professional curiosity of other colleagues, teams and services and to empower person centred conversations.

The post holder must be able to work as part of team, independently and with partner agencies.

Join our service and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.

CQC rated us as 'GOOD' overall, commenting on how our colleagues "treated patients with compassion and kindness" and "felt positive and proud about working for the trust.

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Benefits include:

• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/
• Access to our LGBTI+ network, BAME Network, Armed Forces Network, Disability Network and Christian Network
• Active Staff forum that represents staff views
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning and development opportunities across the profession and the wider organisation
• Involvement in trust wide, local and national AHP activities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification. To apply, please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB - this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site. You will need to register if you do not already have an account

The Specialist Practitioner for Safeguarding Adults will have responsibility for supporting the implementation of recommendations or guidance from local or national policy in order to safeguard adults.

This includes any learning from Serious Adult Reviews/Serious Incident Learning Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews.

It is essential that the post holder:

Provides leadership and support to health professionals in conjunction with other members of the Safeguarding Team, to promote the welfare of adults and families.

Promotes good professional practice in safeguarding adults by providing advice, support, expertise and training for professionals in the organisation.

Provide safeguarding supervision to DCHS staff as necessary and requested.

Assists with internal reviews and be able to support the completion of Section 42 Information Sharing Requests under the Care Act 2014.

Is able to liaise and communicate closely with other agencies involved in safeguarding individuals/families at risk.

The role will require skills to support policy development, report writing, audit, training development/ delivery, and have an understanding of safeguarding policies, procedures and legal frameworks.

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