Adult Safeguarding Practitioner - Safeguarding

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, Stevenage

Adult Safeguarding Practitioner - Safeguarding

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East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, Stevenage

  • Full time
  • Temporary
  • Onsite working

Posted today, 8 Jan | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

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Full Job Description

We are recruiting for an Adult Safeguarding Practitioner who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
As an Adult Safeguarding Practitioner, you will offer specialised guidance and assistance regarding adult safeguarding to frontline personnel operating within acute Trust environments.
To assist the Lead nurse for adult safeguarding in the management of caseloads and to support staff in clinical areas to provide care which is fully compliant with both the mental capacity act (2005) and the care act (2014)
You are required to work closely with the adult and children's safeguarding team and the Trusts safeguarding partner agencies including HSAB members. Contribute to safeguarding adult's reviews, domestic homicide reviews and any other interagency review/inquiry as required, ensuring the Trust's internal adult safeguarding processes are coordinated with these external review processes.
You will promote best practice in ensuring that the welfare of adults at risk and the choices wishes and feelings of adults underpin safeguarding interventions (Making safeguarding personal)
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us., To assist the Named nurse for adult safeguarding by implementing and integrating both national and local safeguarding initiatives and priorities into practice.
To collaborate with all divisions to ensure the adult safeguarding service operates efficiently and effectively, which includes offering direct advice and support to individual practitioners and operational teams concerning the safeguarding of vulnerable adults.
To oversee the execution of the adult safeguarding team's training strategy, while monitoring and assisting divisions to enhance compliance with safeguarding training, and to work in conjunction with colleagues in safeguarding children to incorporate the Think Family frameworks.
The successful candidate is expected to maintain a visible presence within ENHT services as part of their role in promoting safeguarding knowledge and practices.
To engage with various staff groups internally through multiple methods to reinforce the Safeguarding Adults agenda, including facilitating Link Practitioners forums.
To deliver in-person safeguarding support and supervision to staff in clinical settings dealing with high-risk safeguarding cases.
To ensure quality control and documentation of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLs) applications with relevant supervisory bodies.
To assist clinical areas in evaluating patients' mental capacity in cases where the patients' cognitive conditions are complex., Please see the attached applicant pack which includes detailed Job description person specifications
Our values
We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.
Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.
Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.
Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.
Committed to our Community
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.
We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing [email protected]
We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.
We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.
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As a publicly funded employer, we need to ensure we utilise our funds responsibly, this may mean we are unable to support sponsorship required to gain the right to work for particular positions. We strongly advise you to contact the line manager or a member of the Resourcing Team before applying to confirm if we will be able to support with sponsorship for that post.
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Secondments/Fixed term
Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert. If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.
If you are an internal applicant applying for a temporary working arrangement, please see the attached notes on secondments.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
+ The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
+ New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
+ Hertford County, Hertford
+ Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.