Safeguarding Practitioners

An exciting opportunity has arisen for four highly skilled Safeguarding Practitioners to join the Safeguarding Children and Adult's Team within Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT).

2 x roles covering Central Locality

2 x roles covering Pennine Locality

The post involves working within a multi-professional team and the successful applicants will provide expert training, supervision and advice to health and social care practitioners on a wide range of safeguarding issues that impact on children, young people, adults and their families. The role will be underpinned by a sound knowledge of the legal frameworks that shape the safeguarding agenda including The Children Act (1989; 2004), The Care Act (2014), The Mental Health Act (1983) and The Mental Capacity Act (2005).

The post involves working closely with multi-agency partners and we are looking for someone with leadership experience and a track record in providing high standards of care to the most vulnerable children and adults in our society. The successful applicant must demonstrate a passion for safeguarding children, adults and their families and share the team's commitment to deliver services that are high quality , evidence based and person centred in an area of work that is demanding, challenging yet extremely rewarding.

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.

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