Safeguarding Practitioner

We are looking for an experienced Safeguarding Practitioner for children and adults, ensuring delivery of improved health outcomes for those at risk of harm from serious violence. The post holder will be based within the emergency department and will support victims of serious violence, whilst being an integral member of the multi-agency safeguarding team, ensuring that the health needs of this most vulnerable group are included in any multi-agency assessments. The post-holder will maximise positive outcomes for identified victims by building trusted relationships and supporting victims at a reachable and teachable moment. The post holder will work closely with ED staff, the Safeguarding Team, Police, Social Care and community services to ensure positive outcomes for victims. The post holder will work closely with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children to ensure appropriate quality assurance mechanisms are in place and to assist in the development and raising awareness of serious
violence and knife crime across the Trust and support available through the ED navigator.

The scope of the post will include the development of effective inter-disciplinary and inter-agency communication and relationships to improve outcomes for vulnerable children and adults, who are victims of serious violence. The post holder will need to be a motivated and dynamic professional with experience of working with complex safeguarding issues. Excellent communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team are essential requirements of this post, as is the ability to work a varying shift pattern to cover the service 7 days a week and during unsociable hours.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.

We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.

We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.

The Safeguarding Practitioner for both children and adults will ensure the delivery of improved health outcomes for those at risk of harm from serious violence are provided. The post holder will be based within the emergency department and will support victims of serious violence, whilst being an integral member of the multi-agency safeguarding team, ensuring that the health needs of this most vulnerable group are included in any multi-agency assessments. The post-holder will maximise positive outcomes for identified victims by building trusted relationships and supporting victims at a reachable and teachable moment. The post holder will work closely with ED staff, the Safeguarding Team, Police, Social Care and community services to ensure positive outcomes for victims. The post holder will work closely with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children to ensure appropriate quality assurance mechanisms are in place and to assist in the development and raising awareness of
serious violence and knife crime across the Trust and support available through the ED navigator.