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CityCare are looking to recruit an experienced registered professional to fulfil the role of Childrens Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner (working 30 hours per week). The successful candidate will join our integrated safeguarding team, working principally across the childrens safeguarding agenda. Nottingham CityCare Safeguarding Team adopt a Think Family approach; the service is progressive and innovative and is committed to supporting the workforce in understanding safeguarding, embedding it into everyday business and improving outcomes.
Job Responsibility:
Provide safeguarding advice to CityCare staff through delivery of the Safeguarding Teams duty advice service
Actively encourage and support frontline staff to adopt a Think Family approach
Support and advise the safeguarding reporting and management process
Ensure front-line practitioners are appropriately advised regarding safe and legal information sharing
Actively contribute to working groups and other relevant corporate and service delivery groups and committees
Provide advice and appropriate safeguarding supervision to clinical and non-clinical staff
Provide advice to staff on consent, capacity to consent and information sharing
Support staff with reporting for formal safeguarding processes
Effectively contribute to multi-agency panel meetings, and internal and external safeguarding meetings
Support frontline staff to respectfully challenge decision making
Contribute towards the identification of any learning from serious incidents
Implementation of all local and national safeguarding policies, procedures, and guidance
Contribute to the review, development, and implementation of CityCares safeguarding relevant procedures and policies
Contribute to the development, co-ordination, delivery, and evaluation of the CityCare safeguarding training strategy
Monitor, audit, and review training delivered
Participate in the delivery of both CityCare specific safeguarding training and multi-agency training
Support the Safeguarding Leads and Head of Safeguarding to arrange, develop and co-ordinate systems of audit
Assist with the collection of data in Rapid Reviews, Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and Serious Incident investigations
Support the implementation of recommendations from internal and external safeguarding reviews
Support CityCare's contribution to the MARAC process through record reviews, MARAC attendance and multi-agency safety planning
May be required to support the ongoing delivery of the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) Health
Requirements:
First Level Registered Practitioner
Two years experience with responsibility for a safeguarding caseload
Evidence of relevant professional development
Completion of Level 3 Safeguarding training
Experience of supporting change
Experience of Supervision
Experience of managing multi-agency working / relationships
Sound working knowledge of safeguarding and its application
Extensive experience working with families and young people who are receiving multiagency services
Experience working with families who are being supported through Supporting Families Programme
Experience of leading change within a multi-agency setting
Ability to be flexible over hours worked within contracted hours to meet the needs of the service
An ability to travel across a number of sites within the working day
Sound working knowledge regarding the recognition and impact of abuse and neglect, capacity, and consent
Reflective Practitioner and ability to facilitate reflective practice in others
Understanding of national policy in relation to safeguarding children, adults at risk and domestic abuse
Good working knowledge of local safeguarding procedures
Good working knowledge of the Threshold of Needs document
Ability to represent the organisation as appropriately delegated by safeguarding leads
Ability to be self-motivating and work as an effective member of wider organisational teams
Ability to prioritise and deliver within tight timescales
Effective written and oral communication skills
Effective influencing and negotiating skills
Able to challenge poor practice and deal with conflict
Commitment to continuing professional development for self and others to support succession planning
Ability to recognise own need for support and supervision
Ability to exercise initiative
Adaptable and flexible
Self-motivated
Emotional awareness and resilience
Problem solving skills
Networking skills
IT/keyboard skills
Car owner and driving licence essential with an ability to travel across sites
Nice to have:
Experience in undertaking research / audit/ reviews
Ability to organise / chair multidisciplinary meetings
Ability to conduct audit and management reviews
Experience of delivering improvements to improve the lives of children and young people
Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
Mentorship Qualification
Supervision Qualification
Teaching Qualification
Expanded Safeguarding Training
Demonstrates understanding of motivating and developing teams and individuals
Proven ability to manage complex problems
Ability to demonstrate an understanding and commitment to the current issues affecting the delivery of safeguarding services
Willingness to develop the range and scope of the post as services change
Knowledge of the principles of trauma-informed practice and experience of implementing these principles in the practitioners own safeguarding practice or in previous organisations