Safeguarding Adults Practitioner

6 months ago


Saint Ives, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust Full time

Our aim is to ensure everyone has every opportunity to achieve their full potential. We are seeking highly motivated and experienced practitioners to work as substantive safeguarding adult practitioners as part of a Trust wide team. Ability to travel will be essential, but there will be an expectation that office based work, remote working and flexible working is undertaken.

The post holder will be offered significant opportunities to develop their knowledge of safeguarding practice, communication skills, their ability to provide specialist advice, supervision and training to all CCS staff. There will be opportunities to develop skills across a Think Whole Family approach and to work closely with both adult and children’s safeguarding teams.

Develop multi-agency/professional working partnerships to improve outcomes for adults and families.

Provide specialist advice and support with Mental Capacity Act Assessments.

Provide support to operational teams including assistance with compiling reports.

Attend operational and multi-agency group meetings to support ongoing development of best practice and positive practice in relation to the 'Think Whole Family' approach to safeguarding, mental capacity assessments, making safeguarding personal and deprivation of liberty.

Assist staff with referrals to local authority Safeguarding Adult Teams.

Provide case feedback from multi-agency networking, ensuring information is shared at appropriate meetings such as the Clinical Quality and Assurance Group (CQAG).

Identify, plan, deliver and evaluate safeguarding training for health professionals under the guidance of the Named Professionals in accordance with the Safeguarding Training Strategy and Programme, (Intercollegiate Document, 2019).

Be expected to participate in quantitative and qualitative audit work.

Engage in and support Patient Safety Incident Review Framework (PSIRF) process and implementation of recommendations from these and Local Learning Reviews.

Attend multi-agency safeguarding meetings to provide specialist knowledge and represent the Trust in their safeguarding role including strategy discussions and adult safeguarding conferences.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There’s one reason why our services are outstanding - and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

Work as team member within the safeguarding structure promoting the service and developing team skills.

Provide support to the operational teams including assistance with compiling reports in line with Trust guidelines.

Attend multi-agency safeguarding meetings as required.

Attend operational group meetings in order to support ongoing development of best practice and positive practice in relation to the 'Think Whole Family' approach to safeguarding, mental capacity assessments, making safeguarding personal and deprivation of liberty.

Provide support and advice on safeguarding issues to operational teams across the Trust. This will be achieved using a blended approach of face to face, phone and virtual contact.

Support staff participating in safeguarding enquiries.

Support in the communication of relevant safeguarding information such as research and new guidance.

Maintain own professional competencies and knowledge.

Provide cover for other team members during planned and unplanned absences.

Communication

Work with operational and safeguarding team colleagues to develop a model of safeguarding supervision that can be rolled out across the Trust.

Ensure clear communication in the safeguarding supervision process.

Acknowledge and professionally challenge where there are differing professional opinions in a single or multi-agency arena.

Challenge perceptions when needed and help practitioners challenge.

Support critical and analytical thinking in cases and escalate when appropriate using the relevant resolving professional disagreements policy in each locality across the Trust.

Assist practitioners to manage challenging situations through effective supervision.

Support staff with writing and producing reports for court.

Promote the welfare and safeguarding of adults and families through a Think Whole Family approach.

Communicate with statutory and non-statutory agencies within the health arena and the wider community.

Assess, respond and adapt communication skills appropriately to the need of the receiving group/individual.

Organise and undertake multi-agency and management meetings as required.

People Management

Participates in recruitment, interviewing and appointment panels.

Sickness absence service cover for colleagues.

Flexible working practice depending on local needs.

Contribute and support managers in perfo



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