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Job summary

Main area
Safeguarding
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent: Full time - Monday - Friday
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
423-6236526
Employer
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Town
Steeton
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
23/05/2024 23:59

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Airedale NHS Foundation Trust logo

Safeguarding Adult Practitioner (Band 6)

NHS AfC: Band 6

Be part of our future landscape

At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.  

We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.

These are exciting times for Airedale.  We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030.  By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.

 

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen to join the Safeguarding Adults team as a Band 6 Safeguarding Adults Practitioner.  This full-time post  working with an experienced team to ensure that all staff fulfil their duty to support people at risk and to prevent harm.

The key responsibilities of the post holder will be to support and advice staff on adult safeguarding concerns/alerts and to work alongside multi-professional partners across Bradford District; North Yorkshire and East Lancashire in accordance with the West Yorkshire and Partners Multi Agency Policy and Procedures for Safeguarding Adults.

 

Main duties of the job

The core principles of the role are to:

  • Promote personalised and safe care as part of a prevention strategy
  • Promote effective responses to harm
  • Use learning to improve prevention of harm and support protection of people at risk
  • Make safeguarding personal

Safeguarding is everyone’s business and as such the postholder will work across the trust supporting safeguarding education, training and practice with all staff, patients and visitors.

 

 For full details of the role please see attached Job Description

 

Working for our organisation

We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.

We want to attract staff who embrace our Right Care behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients we want to make these part of our DNA.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information and full details of the job role please see the attached job description and person specification.

 

 

Person specification

Qualifications and experience

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse or Registered Health Professional or Registered Social Care Professional .
  • Degree in a health-related subject or equivalent relevant experience
  • Teaching/Coaching qualification
  • Working knowledge of confidentiality & consent.
Desirable criteria
  • Completion of level 3 Adult Safeguarding Competencies as per Intercollegiate Document.
  • Experience of clinical supervision as supervisor
  • Experience working at Band 6 (or equivalent) with adults within hospital/community setting.
  • Experience of providing formal training for staff
  • RNLD

Skills and experience

Essential criteria
  • Able to question and analyse information and to make sound judgements often under pressure and in difficult circumstances
  • Able to deal constructively and positively with confrontation
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of clinical supervision as supervisor
  • Experience of resolving conflict effectively

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardDisability Confident - two yearsNHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion PartnersVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerPositive about disabled peopleInvestors in PeopleDisability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Happy to Talk Flexible WorkingArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Deborah Fox
Job title
Deputy Chief Nurse Patient Safety
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01535292114
Additional information

Sophie Wilson, Lead Practitioner Safeguarding Adults

[email protected]

Tel: 01535 292114

 

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