Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 7 Senior Practitioner - Safeguarding Adults- Bath
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This is an exciting time to join our safeguarding team
We work trust wide supporting practitioners working with safeguarding adults. The post holder will be responsible for supporting practitioners in an identified locality, in addition to supporting safeguarding colleagues Trust wide.
About You
As an ideal Candidate you will be forward thinking, innovative and looking to further develop your career in the Safeguarding arena. Experience of working within mental health and learning disabilities is desirable.
Senior Practitioner Safeguarding Adults (band 7)
You will have a proven track record in safeguarding and be able to demonstrate extensive knowledge and skills relevant to safeguarding and able to apply the relevant legal framework. A Professional Qualification in health and social care is essential.
You will be operating as a lead practitioner for safeguarding within a defined geographical area and will have a thematic trust wide lead for a specific area of safeguarding practice e.g. modern slavery or self-neglect.
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- Working Trust wide supporting AWP practitioners with management of safeguarding concerns affecting their service users.
- Taking the lead for safeguarding arrangements in the locality including completing multi-agency audits and writing IMRs for safeguarding adult reviews etc...
- Support practitioners with safeguarding meetings and multi-agency strategy discussions.
- Safeguarding team provide support in relation to: safeguarding adults, safeguarding children, domestic abuse, MAPPA and PREVENT.
About Us
We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all-round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.
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Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200 miles, to more than 1.8 million people.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Contact Us
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Phil Wilshire
- Job title: Head Social Care and Safeguarding Governance
- Email address: phil.wilshire@nhs.net
Phil Rhodes - philip.rhodes@nhs.net
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