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We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Senior Practitioner for Safeguarding Children to joining our Safeguarding team within the Trust to cover Maternity Leave.

You have a proven track record in safeguarding and are able to demonstrate extensive knowledge and skills relevant to safeguarding children. You will have a working knowledge of the relevant legal framework. A Professional Qualification in health and social care would be an advantage.

You will be operating as a lead practitioner for safeguarding within a defined geographical area and may have a thematic trust wide lead for a specific area of safeguarding practice e.g. complex presentations or exploitation.

You will be responsible for co-ordination of Trust safeguarding activity within your area including:

• Representing the trust at Safeguarding Partnership subgroups with responsibility for participating in safeguarding developments.
• Delivering training including L3 children/adult online and face to face training.
• Delivering Safeguarding Supervision.
• Taking part in the duty rota at least once per week.
• Participation in Multi agency review.

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About you

The ideal candidate will be forward thinking, innovative and looking to further develop their career in the Safeguarding arena.

Have experience of working within mental health and learning disabilities.

 For a full list of duties and responsibilities please see attached job description.

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We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.