About this role
Job summary
Adult Safeguarding Practitioner (Band 6)
We are seeking an enthusiastic individual with a keen interest in Adult Safeguarding practice to join our team.
The successful candidate will :-
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.
Main duties of the job
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.
About us About us
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.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for this Adult Safeguarding practitioner role documents for details
Person Specification
Qualification/Experience Essential
First Level Registered Nurse with the NMC
Desirable
Experience of working in an adult safeguarding role
Qualifications & experience Essential
First level degree or extensive level of experience in band 6 role or above
Desirable
Experience of working in an adult safeguarding role
Qualifications Essential
Teaching qualification or evidence of courses relevant to specialist area or willingness to undertake
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address Hereford County Hospital
Stonebow Road
Hereford
HR1 2ER
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)