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Adult Safeguarding Practitioner

Wye Valley Nhs Trust, Hereford

Adult Safeguarding Practitioner

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Wye Valley Nhs Trust, Hereford

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 4 days ago, 11 Jun | Get your application in now to be included in the first week's applications.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

Job ref: 31072c5c5c7c4e0aba2b2628572930bd

Location ref: Hereford

Full Job Description

  • be responsible for providing effective safeguarding activity through professional leadership and safeguarding guidance.
  • ensure compliance across the Trust with Working Together to Safeguard Children (2026), Children Act 1989 and 2004, Care Act 2014, MCA 2005, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards 2009 and local safeguarding procedures.
  • work closely with the team to provide contextual safeguarding and domestic violence/abuse and MCA & DoLS support across the organisation.
  • work in partnership with other health service providers and other agencies, both statutory and voluntary, to promote children and adults at risk welfare and wellbeing to keep them safe from harm, neglect and abuse., Work operationally with staff, patients and carers in connection with Adult Safeguarding, DOLS and MCA and Domestic Abuse issues. Review new patients referred under adult safeguarding and DOLS and monitor throughout their inpatient stay. Provide expert advice and support and comprehensively document in medical records regarding status of referrals and next steps.
  • Work closely in clinical settings with multi-professional staff to ensure that decision making is informed by expert safeguarding advice and that appropriate outcomes are achieved for patientsEnsue Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) remains a high priority within WVT, ensuring the adult, their wishes and desired outcomes are at the centre of the safeguarding process. Support from the adult safeguarding team is crucial in helping staff understand and implement MSP so that an appropriate outcome for the individual at risk can be ultimately achieved.
  • With guidance from the LNAS and AP and DA Lead undertake safeguarding investigations relevant to the role. Identify and support the development of individual protection plans.Contribute to reports in relation to Serious Case Reviews (SCR) Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SAR), Practice Learning Reviews (PLR) and Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews (DARDRS) formally known as Domestic Homicide Reviews(DHR) and contribute to other reports/reviews as requested by the LNAS.

    We are seeking an enthusiastic individual with a keen interest in Adult Safeguarding practice to join our team.

    Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.
    • Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye. We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends. More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire. We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential. Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential." Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.

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https://www.jobs24.co.uk/job/adult-safeguarding-practitioner-126966374
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