The post holder will work as part of an integrated children and adult safeguarding team of specialist advisors ensuring that staff are aware through training of their responsibilities with regards to safeguarding unborns, children and adults at risk. The team also encompasses the acute liaison learning disability service.
- To contribute to the delivery of a proactive, responsive, safeguarding service as part of the Northumbria Trust wide safeguarding and learning disability liaison service. Working in partnership with staff and key stakeholders, to deliver safeguarding training.
- To provide advice, support, clinical supervision and training for clinical and non-clinical staff dealing with safeguarding issues, to support them to undertake their responsibilities in relation to Safeguarding.
- The post holder will support the team to ensure service delivery is modernised and fulfils the requirements of Working Together to Safeguard Children, The Care Act, The Mental Capacity Act and DoLS and other key local and national policy drivers.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
- To work Trust wide as required, providing a service to all employees.
- To contribute to the delivery of a proactive, responsive, specialist safeguarding service as part of the Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust Safeguarding Team; taking a ‘think family’ approach,
- Contribute to local Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hubs (MASH).
- To deputise for the other team members on request for Safeguarding Adults & Children.
- To work within an environment where immediate high-risk decisions are made and there will be competing demands and requests to prioritise work based on risk and at short notice from management.
- To be accountable for own practice.
- There will be a requirement to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service including shift patterns which may involve 7 day working.

Organisation Chart

The Team has a Head of Safeguarding, a Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children, Named Midwife for Safeguarding, Team Lead for Safeguarding Adults and a number of specialist advisors and Leads within the service.

1. Communications and Relationships
- Communicates with and provides safeguarding advice to the Trust staff and other agencies, e.g. police adult services, children’s services including education and social care, to ensure that the health needs of the unborn, child or adult involved are fully understood.
- Present complex and sensitive information when delivering safeguarding training and supervision to Trust and Multi agency staff e.g. learning lessons from adult and child case reviews.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships within the Trust and other agencies to ensure that the role is respected, adds value and contributes to effective team working to safeguard those at risk
- Ability to assist and support Trust employees in managing difficult situations.
- Ability to challenge conflicting opinion positively promoting consensus.
- Ability to communicate effectively with professional colleagues from a multi-agency arena and all service users.
- Demonstrates a positive attitude and a ‘can do’ approach to work and colleagues.
- Must be able to demonstrate the English language proficiency level required.

2. Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience

Essential
- For registered nurses, must be a registered mentor
- Knowledge of national and local legislation and guidance in relation to safeguarding and health
- Knowledgeable and skilled in making assessments and analysing safeguarding risk and factors that will adversely impact or be protective.
- Evidence of involvement in quality assurance and improvement in practice.
- Able to use the highest level of interpersonal skills to ensure effective communication with a broad range of staff, public and patients, including when there are barriers to communication.
- Knowledge and experience of working to support those with additional needs such as learning and physical disability.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Significant experience of working with those who are vulnerable.
- Good IT skills and able to navigate systems used to document care (such as E3, SystmOne, Nervecentre etc.).
- Excellent presentation skills
- practical experience and evidence of delivering teaching.
- To lead, inspire and motivate others to high performance by agreeing clear goals and objectives, providing support and guidance and creating opportunities for development
- To contribute to the development of a culture of high engagement, where staff are empowered and entrusted to provide