Specialist Practitioner for Domestic Abuse

Specialist Practitioner for Domestic Abuse Band 7, 37.5 hours per week

This is a diverse health role to support the identification and responsiveness for victims of domestic violence and abuse across the life course who are accessing health services. Embedding a culture of ‘Making Every Contact Count’ Working closely with multi agency colleagues in both statutory and third sector services to ensure victims and their families are safeguarded. The post holder will contribute to both patient centred work and the management of complex domestic abuse cases, and also implementing strategic and cultural change to improve outcomes for services working with those experiencing Domestic Abuse.

The post holder will support the wider safeguarding team in ensuring that safeguarding processes are in line with national standards, as well as undertaking audits and practice evaluation to provide assurance to the Board that safeguarding systems are meeting the needs of adults, children and young people.
- Work as a member of the wider Safeguarding team, contributing information to enable an overall understanding of the safety and quality of the care provided across the organisations
- Contribute to the delivery of the annual safeguarding work plan across the organisation.
- Liaise with key partners across the Police, Social Care services, and Domestic Abuse specialists in both statutory and voluntary agencies
- Contribute to safeguarding leadership across the organisation, with a focus on domestic abuse specialism
- Support all activities necessary to ensure that the organisation meets its responsibilities to safeguard/protect children, young people and adults at risk of domestic abuse or exposed to domestic abuse.
- Support the work of and development of MARAC and DVDS processes, ensuring appropriate NCIC attendance, information sharing and actions.

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’.
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust’s sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport and others.

We encourage you to think about what you can do as an individual and within your team to contribute in to embedding carbon reduction into the everyday running of our organisation.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see ourPolicyfor eligible vacancies?
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