Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Safeguarding Practitioner
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A fantastic opportunity has arisen within Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust to appoint a skilled, motivated, and enthusiastic Registered Professional to join the Safeguarding Team.
The Safeguarding Practitioner will be an experienced practitioner with in-depth knowledge of adults at risk and child protection and advanced analytical skills for safeguarding acquired through specialist courses and experiential learning from interagency work.
As part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust's Safeguarding Team, the successful post holder will be provided with a thorough induction package and professional development opportunities in the area of Safeguarding.
The role will be office based with some opportunity for hybrid working depending on the needs of the service.
The main purpose of this post is to primarily work with the Safeguarding Children's function of the team however there is an aspiration for practitioners to be able to work across both adult and children’s functions in the future, therefore this is an all-age practitioner role.
The adult and children’s safeguarding teams are based at Stoke Mandeville Hospital but have responsibility for working with acute and community services, and the MASH (Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub) which will therefore require travel Trustwide.
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The post holder will work within a bigger team in order to provide:
- expert advice and support for colleagues in relation to safeguarding adults and child protection concerns
- safeguarding adults and child protection training for all colleagues
- safeguarding adults and child protection supervision for colleagues
- effective communication channels with the Buckinghamshire Safeguarding Adults and Children's boards
- robust internal policies and guidelines for safeguarding children and adults
- representing BHT in the MASH (Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub).
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
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Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.
We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.
We are proud to achieve the Gold award for the Armed Forces Covenant and support applications from the Armed Forces Community. Please contact Pam.Daley@nhs.net (our Armed Forces Covenant Lead) if you would like guidance or assistance with your application.
We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Claire Rickard
- Job title: Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children
- Email address: claire.rickard@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01296255740
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