Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner for Children
4 days ago
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults. As a Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner, you will play a crucial role in ensuring excellent standards of safeguarding practice throughout the Trust.
The successful candidate will be an experienced children's social worker with recent experience of working with children and families, preferably within a health safeguarding role. They will lead on the design and delivery of training and education to the multidisciplinary workforce and provide expert advice on safeguarding children.
The post holder will work closely with divisional leads and safeguarding 'champions' to develop positive partnerships that improve outcomes for children. They will also provide support and mentorship to safeguarding practitioners and other colleagues within the multidisciplinary safeguarding team.
Main Duties of the JobThe Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner will support the ELHT workforce to conform to relevant statutory guidance, frameworks, and legislation. They will support the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children and Head of Safeguarding to provide leadership, supervision, training, and expert advice in the management of child safeguarding concerns, including:
- Development and implementation of the Safeguarding Strategy and leading on workstreams within that strategy.
- Raising awareness of the safeguarding children's 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 Children Act 1989, 2004, and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023.
- Design, deliver, and evaluate Level 3 Safeguarding Children's training.
- Facilitation of safeguarding supervision and safeguarding champions sessions.
- Provision of support in the raising of and response to safeguarding child concerns within our acute and community settings.
- Supporting clinical and governance teams in the completion of safeguarding investigations.
- Proactively contributing to subgroups of the Child Safeguarding Assurance Partnership and safeguarding reviews, including Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews, alongside multi-agency partners.
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) is a large integrated healthcare 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 beds at 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
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