Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 7 Senior Practitioner -Safeguarding Children - Bath
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Exciting Opportunity for Two Band 7 Senior Practitioners for Safeguarding Children
We currently have an exciting opportunity for two Band 7 Senior Practitioners for Safeguarding Children to join our Safeguarding team within the Trust. One post will be 30 hours covering BSW and the other will be 22.5 hours covering BNSSG. Please state your preference upon application.
About the Role
You have a proven track record in safeguarding and are able to demonstrate extensive knowledge and skills relevant to safeguarding children. You will have a working knowledge of the relevant legal framework. A Professional Qualification in health and social care would be an advantage.
You will be operating as a lead practitioner for safeguarding within a defined geographical area and may have a thematic trust-wide lead for a specific area of safeguarding practice e.g. complex presentations or exploitation.
You will be responsible for coordination of Trust safeguarding activity within your area including:
- Representing the trust at Safeguarding Partnership subgroups with responsibility for participating in safeguarding developments.
- Delivering training including the L3 Children's/adults online and face to face training.
- Delivering Safeguarding Supervision to teams and localities.
- Taking part in the Duty Rota at least once per week.
- Participation in Multi-agency review.
- Providing Safeguarding advice and support to practitioners across AWP.
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About You
The ideal candidate will be forward thinking, innovative, and looking to further develop their career in the Safeguarding arena.
- Have experience of working within mental health and learning disabilities.
For a full list of duties and responsibilities, please see the attached job description.
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 Information
For further details/informal visits, contact:
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Name: Katherine Ford
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Job Title: Named Nurse for Safeguarding for Children
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Email Address: katherine.ford4@nhs.net
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Telephone Number: 07734233308
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Phil Rhodes - Portfolio Manager: philip.rhodes@nhs.net
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