Dorset Council UK
Transitional Safeguarding Practitioner
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Role Overview
This is an exciting time to join the Adult Safeguarding Team as we continue to develop increased flexibility and specialist practice within the service. We are creating a new part-time (24 hours a week) Transitional Safeguarding Adult Practitioner role to provide focused expertise at the critical point where young people move from children’s services into adulthood, ensuring safeguarding responsibilities are effectively managed and risks are appropriately identified and addressed.
Responsibilities
- Play a key role within the team, supporting high-quality safeguarding practice for young people approaching adulthood who may be at risk of abuse or neglect.
- Contribute to the development of knowledge and skills across the safeguarding service.
- Work closely with colleagues across Children’s Services, Adult Social Care, Health, Education, and community partners to provide advice, guidance, and support where there are safeguarding concerns during transition.
- Act as a key point of contact for safeguarding advice and guidance relating to transition, supporting early planning, preventative approaches, and where appropriate, the coordination and oversight of Section 42 enquiries once individuals reach adulthood.
- Support effective information-sharing and joint working between children’s and adult services.
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Key Principles
- The principles of Making Safeguarding Personal are central to this role.
- Work alongside young people and, where appropriate, their families and networks, ensuring their views, wishes, and outcomes are central to safeguarding decision-making throughout their transition journey.
- Close partnership working with key stakeholders, including Children’s Services, Health providers, Education, the Police, Care Quality Commission, and the voluntary and community sector.
About Us
We are a supportive, nurturing team with a clear vision: to embed high-quality safeguarding practice that protects adults at risk of, or experiencing, abuse and neglect across Dorset.
What We Offer
- A strong commitment to a strengths-based approach with customers and employees.
- A vibrant, positive, and high-achieving workforce.
- Regular reflective supervision to support Continuous Professional Development.
- Robust learning and development opportunities, including mentoring, coaching, RIPFA courses, Community Care Inform, and internal training.
- Career development pathways.
- Access to wellbeing services and support.
- Generous relocation and retention packages.
- Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
- A minimum of 27 days’ holiday, with the option to purchase more.
- Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, including working from home.
- There is an expectation that workers will be in the office a minimum of 2 days per week.
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About You
- You will be a dynamic, experienced social worker with a strong value base and sense of person-centred practice who can use a strengths-based approach.
- Previous experience of working with individuals who self-neglect and adult safeguarding is required.
- Excellent communication skills, enjoyment of working in a fast-paced environment, a flexible approach, and the ability to work closely with a range of professionals.
- Creative and passionate about enabling people to be as independent as possible.
- Confident with the legal basis for practice and able to demonstrate a good understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Mental Health Act 2007, Human Rights Act 1998, Equality Act 2010, and Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.
- Embrace continuous professional development.
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