Safeguarding Children Advisor -12months fixed term

The Safeguarding Advisor is an experienced specialist practitioner with in-depth knowledge of child protection and advanced analytical skills for safeguarding children acquired through specialist courses and experiential learning from interagency work.

Daily screening emergency department attendances, collaborating with internal / external professionals and attending the weekly multi-disciplinary meeting associated with emergency department attendances.

To advise and support staff in complex cases and to work closely with the Trust Named Safeguarding Children Professionals to ensure that appropriate assessment of risks are undertaken.

The post holder will work as part of a dynamic multi-agency team assessing notifications and referrals regarding children aged 0-18 that are received by Multi- Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH).

The post hold will work across acute and community sites as well as other multiagency professionals working to safeguard children.

The post holder will work with the Safeguarding team to deliver safeguarding training.

The post holder will work with the Safeguarding team to deliver safeguarding supervision in one to one, group and reflective learning forums.

The post holder will have either supervision or line management responsibility for a Safeguarding Coordinator

The Named Nurse for Safeguarding will undertake line management and monthly clinical supervision with the post holder.,

• Work with the Named Professionals in providing and facilitating Child Protection/Safeguarding training and education for staff working in the Trust. Ensuring a multi-disciplinary approach.



• In collaboration with Workforce and Development Team identify, implement and facilitate Safeguarding and Think Family training.



• Ensure robust safeguarding supervision is implemented within Trust Services in accordance with the Trust safeguarding supervision policy.



• Provide safeguarding supervision, consultation, professional advice and guidance to staff and to sensitively guide and support staff working with issues related to vulnerable families and child protection.


Ensure that safeguarding supervision is delivered to key professionals working with children.

Work in partnership with Trust Team managers, ensuring they are aware of issues within clinical practice relevant to safeguarding vulnerable families which impact upon workloads, highlighting areas of clinical risk and working in partnership to ensure clinical governance and performance management issues are addressed.

Facilitate the participation of staff in safeguarding assessments using the respective local authority Interagency Referral (IAR) as required; ensuring documentation is in line with the NMC Professional Code of Practice.

Attend bi-weekly Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARAC) and ensure communication of actions / risk to practitioners., 1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations