Safeguarding Practitioner

3 weeks ago

South Tyneside, United Kingdom LSS (Staff Recruitment and Training Agency) Full time

**Purpose**

To work with all our health and social care partners as part of a multi-disciplinary approach to support the people of South Tyneside to Live Better Lives.

**Roles and Responsibilities**
- To work alongside and in partnership with individuals, families and carers using a range of interpersonal and communication skills to comprehensively assess highly complex psychosocial need and risk, set objectives, develop care plans and deliver appropriate interventions.
- To provide person centred assessment of need at a level of complexity appropriate to the role, such as multiple social or health needs, complex care and support arrangements, as allocated by your line manager and where requested.
- To work with people in crisis, promoting, enabling and empowering individuals, families and carers through representation of rights; advocacy; nurturing strengths and capacities to make informed choices about highly complex life decisions.
- To network and liaise with other professionals and external organisations to provide services to individuals, families and carers and to challenge and question when necessary in the best interests of the user.
- Support people to receive support and treatment in the community rather than inpatient settings and to arrange effective discharge pathways, facilitating community connections, housing and discharge arrangements.
- To use active listening skills, observation and communication to develop supportive and therapeutic relationships with adults, their families and informal networks, exploring their situation with them and looking together for ways to move forward.
- Support and constructively challenge them to think about the social factors within their lives and help them establish their own goals for positive change, providing people with advice and the tools to achieve their aspirations.
- Refer, liaise, consult and work effectively with all relevant agencies and other professionals in order to help meet identified needs, bridging the gap between health and social care.
- Provide professional support and information, guidance and advice on how their needs could be partly or wholly met by universal and other non-care services.
- Work closely with the person or their carer to develop an agreed care and support plan to achieve the identified outcomes, promoting the delivery of strengths-based approaches to support planning, maximising on an individual’s strengths and community / family resources.
- Ensure care and support plans are person centred, capture the person voice and promote the independence, overall safety and well-being of adults and where relevant children.
- Support people to achieve a sustainable recovery, be independent and be discharged from services on a long-term basis, relying instead on their own support mechanisms and other measures they have put in place to prevent relapse.
- Proactively work towards embedding personalisation into practice including but not limited to individual budgets, direct payments, self-assessment and self-directed support. Practice and support planning will be focused on outcomes rather than service driven.
- Undertake reviews of support packages as required ensuring the right level of support is delivered only for as long as is needed and at a reasonable cost, advising the person and their carers’ of alternative support as appropriate.
- Take professional responsibility for managing a case load, including adults with complex problems and whose circumstances may place their personal liberty or safety at risk.
- To provide written reports and support plan to represent individual and carers needs and ensure you maintain a high level of data quality for all information recorded, ensuring that the information is timely, accurate and complete.
- Provide a commitment to knowing the community you serve and develop links and opportunities within it and liaise with local, universal and other services to promote access to them by people with care and support needs and carers.
- Ensure the proactive and appropriate positive management of risk with people, their families and carers.
- Represent the service as a witness in court proceedings as required.
- To work in accordance with safeguarding policies, safeguarding individuals in a way that supports them in making choices and having control. Ensuring that the ‘Making Safeguarding Personal’ ethos is at the heart of all practice.
- Undertake Safeguarding Adults Enquiries, as appropriate and in line with South Tyneside Safeguarding procedures.
- Contribute to the ongoing improvement and development of Adult and Integrated Care Services.
- To ensure practice is informed by evidence, research and theory and meets with council guidelines, policies and procedures as well as local and national professional standards.
- To be open to engage in peer support and challenge.
- Attend training and professional development events and activities relevant to the role and necessary for registrati

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