Family Approach Safeguarding Practitioner

6 months ago


Newport, United Kingdom Isle of Wight NHS Trust Full time

To provide specialist operational safeguarding guidance and leadership to all services within the Isle of Wight Trust on a day-to-day basis. The post holder will support the Integrated Safeguarding Team in the delivery of statutory, regulatory, and contractual safeguarding services, ensuring that an all-age family approach to safeguarding is robustly embedded.

Proactively work with clinical and non-clinical teams to identify all age safeguarding concerns and risks within the provision of services across the Isle of Wight Trust.
Supporting all services in robustly responding to safeguarding concerns and incidents.
In conjunction with the Integrated Safeguarding Team ensure the learning from local, regional, and national safeguarding reviews is embedding within Isle of Wight Trust services, improving practice and service provision.
Work flexibly across the Integrated Safeguarding Team in the provision of statutory, regulatory, and contractual all age safeguarding services.
Assist the Integrated Safeguarding Team in the delivery of training and supervision as outlined in the 2022-25 Strategy.
Support the Named Professionals for Safeguarding in the scoping and analysis of Safeguarding Adults Reviews, Domestic Homicide Reviews, Child Safeguarding Practice reviews and associated action plans.
Attend the sub-groups of the Safeguarding Adults Board and Safeguarding Children’s Partnership as required.
Represent the Trust and provide relevant health information to forums such as Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conferences, High Risk Domestic Abuse meetings, Missing Exploited Trafficked Risk Assessment Conferences.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are C ompassion, A ccountable, R espect and E veryone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

Communication and relationships

Will be required to communicate highly sensitive and complex information to a variety of forums and professional groups/individuals, both inside and outside of the Isle of Wight Trust.

To deputise for the Named Professional Leads, and Specialist Safeguarding Practitioners, as required in the operational provision of Trust safeguarding services.

Will need to work collaboratively with clinical and non-clinical services in the gathering, analysing and communicating safeguarding information including risk assessment, safety planning, sign-posting and onward referrals.

Act as an innovative and enthusiastic role model, providing leadership, expertise, guidance and advice to staff on operational and professional issues. Promoting an open, honest and transparent culture.

Support the Integrated Safeguarding Team in core functions including (but not exhaustively) children’s Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) provision and adults Section 42 enquiries.

Develop strong working relationship with key professionals within:

- Isle of Wight Safeguarding Adults Board subgroups and forums
- Isle of Wight Safeguarding Children’s Partnership sub-groups and forums
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue
- Integrated Care Board including Designate Nurses and Named Doctors
- Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)
- Isle of Wight Council Adult and Child Safeguarding Teams
- Primary Care Practices
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Trust services
- Portsmouth University Hospitals Trust

Planning and organising

Prioritise and coordinate own workload in response to urgent safeguarding concerns or service demands.

Access training and supervision to maintain own competencies appropriate to role and in line with trust policy.

Understand and meet reporting deadlines as outlined in adult and child safeguarding policy and procedures.

Plan, organise and deliver training with support from the Integrated Safeguarding Team covering mandatory training and bespoke requests.

Attend relevant Isle of Wight Trust meetings and forums incl. PSIRF learning response meetings (SWARMs and After Action Reviews) and Collaborative Councils to embed the safeguarding as a core thread of operational business.

Patient and client care

Embed the Family Approach to all age safeguarding across the Isle of Wight Trust

Act as an advocate for children, young people, and adults at risk at all times. Ensuring that plans are developed, documented, and communicated in a robust and compassionate way.

Provide visible leadership across all clinical and non-clinical services in matters linked to all age safeguarding and the family approach.

Support clinical teams in the operational provision of safeguarding in complex cases. This may require direct contact with children, young people, and adul



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