Senior Safeguarding Adult Practitioner

7 months ago


Truro, United Kingdom Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

Plan and provide supervision, support, training and advice and act as a source of specialist knowledge in matters relating to safeguarding adults, predominantly responsible for acute and community adult services.

Work in allocated areas under the direction of the senior managers in the safeguarding team.

Develop partnership working with statutory and voluntary organisations to aid communication and provide better outcomes for adults and families.

Ensure robust communication takes place minimising risks to the adults, families, and the organisation.

To be available and accessible to frontline staff and safeguarding colleagues, both within the safeguarding office and within care environments.

To line manage the safeguarding adult practitioner and the safeguarding assistant practitioner.
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- Attend multi agency safeguarding meetings as required.
- Provide support and advice on safeguarding issues to the RCHT and CPFT teams. This will be achieved face to face, phone or virtual contact.
- Ensure there is a robust record keeping and storage system in place with the ability to evidence the supervision process and
- Safeguarding Adults is often complex and can entail working with conflicting evidence. - all of which has to be collected, analysed and interpreted in order to identify areas of risk /need.
- Participate in safeguarding supervision decision-making/risk assessment.
- Critical appraisal of research and analysis of evidence base.
- Participate and support staff with Learning reviews, enquiries and other learning models such as signs of safety mapping.
- Representing the organisation at multi-agency professional meetings.
- Interpretation of information pertaining to the organisation regarding safeguarding.
- Analysis and dissemination of safeguarding information from a multi-agency and managerial arena to practitioners.
- Interpret, analyse and respond to information received from practitioners and represent their views within the multi-agency arena.
- Provide case feedback from multi agency networking and ensure information is shared at appropriate meetings such as Clinical Quality and Assurance Group (CQAG).
- Identify and inform the Deputy manager for integrated Safeguarding Services of gaps in service provision.
- Assist Deputy Manager for integrated Safeguarding Services in policy development.
- 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 assist and /or 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.
- Support staff participating in safeguarding enquiries.
- Support in communication of relevant safeguarding information such as research and new guidance.
- Attend a minimum of one day per year multi agency training related to safeguarding.
- Liaise with the Deputy Manager for integrated Safeguarding Services to ensure cover arrangements for sickness and annual leave.
- Provide cover for other team members during planned and unplanned absences this will be coordinated through the Deputy manager for integrated Safeguarding Services.
- Maintain safeguarding knowledge.
- Undertake audits and provide quality assurance in various aspects of the safeguarding service.
- Attend multi-agency safeguarding meetings as required to provide specialist knowledge and represent the trust in their safeguarding role including strategy discussions and adult safeguarding conferences.



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