Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner

3 months ago

Burnley, United Kingdom East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) recognises its duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and adults. Staff must always treat patients with dignity and respect, protecting those at risk from abuse and neglect. Employees have a responsibility to ensure that prompt and appropriate action is taken when concerns have been raised about a child, young person or adult at risk.

The role of the Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner is an important leadership position that will ensure excellent standards of safeguarding practice throughout ELHT. The post holder will be an experienced nurse or social worker with recent experience of working with adults at risk of abuse and neglect, preferably within a safeguarding role. They will lead on the design and delivery of training and education to the multidisciplinary workforce and be able to provide expert advice around safeguarding, mental capacity and deprivation of liberty safeguards.

The post holder will work closely with divisional leads and safeguarding ‘champions’ developing positive partnerships which will ultimately improve outcomes for adults at risk. They will also provide support and mentorship to safeguarding practitioners and other colleagues within the multidisciplinary safeguarding team.

The post holder will support the ELHT workforce to conform to the relevant statutory guidance, frameworks and legislation. They will support the Named Professional Safeguarding Adults and Head of Safeguarding to provide leadership, supervision, training and expert advice in the management of adult safeguarding concerns, including:
Development and implementation of the Safeguarding Strategy and leading on workstreams within that strategy.

Raising awareness of the safeguarding adults agenda with the ELHT multi-disciplinary workforce.

Continued development of the Trust safeguarding policies and procedures and completion of audits to ensure that key safeguarding messages are embedded in practice and CQC standards are being met.

Supporting staff to implement the principles of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.

Design, deliver and evaluate Level 3 Safeguarding Adult training.

Facilitation of safeguarding supervision and safeguarding champions sessions.

Provision of support in the raising of and response to safeguarding adult concerns within our acute and community settings.

Supporting clinical and governance teams in the completion of safeguarding investigations to support S.42 enquiries.

Proactively contribute to subgroups of the Safeguarding Adult Board and safeguarding reviews including Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SAR) and Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHR) alongside multiagency partners.

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) was established in 2003 and is a large integrated health care organisation providing high quality acute secondary healthcare for the people of East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen.

We employ 10,000 staff, some of whom are award winning and internationally renowned for their work and achievements. We treat over 700,000 patients a year from the most serious of emergencies to planned operations and procedures. Our high quality healthcare services are offered across five hospital sites and various community sites.

**We have a total of 1041 beds**:
709 beds at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital

240 beds at Burnley General Teaching Hospital

32 beds at Clitheroe Community hospital

67 Pendle Community Hospital

Our objectives and values

**At ELHT our objectives are to**:
Put safety and quality at the heart of everything we do

Invest in and develop our workforce

Work with key stakeholders to develop effective partnerships

Encourage innovation and pathway reform, and deliver best practice

**Our values are**:
Put patients first

Respect the individual

Act with integrity

Serve the community

Promote positive change

Support the Safeguarding Team to provide high quality safeguarding supervision, training, advice and expertise to the ELHT workforce to maintain and continuously improve quality of services provided to adults at risk of abuse & neglect and their families.

To work in conjunction with the Named Professional Safeguarding Adults and Head of Safeguarding to update policies, procedures and guidance and ensure we have an empowered workforce with the appropriate safeguarding knowledge and skills.

To develop ELHT staff knowledge and skills in the specific areas of:
Safeguarding adults at risk of abuse and neglect in accordance with the requirements of the Care Act 2014 and Mental Capacity Act 2005.

Safeguarding policies and procedures.

Recognising, raising and responding to concerns about abuse or neglect.

Supporting the local authority to undertake S.42 enquiries when there are concerns an adult at risk has experienced abuse or neglect whilst under the care of ELHT services.

Ensuring capacity assessments are undertaken appropriately.

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