Assistant Practitioner Maternity Safeguarding

The maternity safeguarding team are looking for an individual with excellent communication and organisational skills, who can use their initiative to make informed decisions and ability to multitask.

The team provide support, advice and signposting to both patients and staff in relation to adult and child safeguarding concerns, specialising in the pre-birth period and working within the wider integrated safeguarding service to support the undertaking of statutory safeguarding functions., Support the maternity safeguarding team by undertaking a duty role, supporting in the management of the generic email inbox and telephone contact for advice.

Provide a visible, accessible presence to staff and patients to support where there are safeguarding concerns.

Provide families that have additional vulnerabilities with support, non-clinical advice and information on a range of issues, whilst inpatients. This will include exposure to distressing information eg. domestic abuse and child abuse.

Building an effective and supportive relationship with patients where there are safeguarding concerns, and those who find it difficult to engaging with services

Support the Safeguarding service in the delivery of mandatory and bespoke safeguarding training sessions and / or learning from experience.

Work in collaboration with colleagues in the Integrated Safeguarding Service including supporting cover with advice calls and referrals during wider team leave and absence

The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) is the main provider of acute and specialist care services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We serve a population of around 500,000 people - a figure that can increase significantly with

visitors during the busiest times of the year. We employ approximately 6,700 staff and have a budget of approximately £580 million.

We are a teaching hospital in partnership with the University of Exeter Medical School, University of Plymouth School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Peninsula Dental School.

The Knowledge Spa on the Royal Cornwall Hospital site is the base for medical and nursing as well as ongoing education for health professions in clinical and non-clinical roles.

Keeping at the forefront of medical advances, we are continually developing our clinical services as well as our facilities and are committed to maximising the range of specialist care that can be offered locally. Allied to this is a growing reputation for research and innovation.