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Job overview Are you a highly motivated and experienced Registered Nurse, Allied Health Professional, or Social Worker with a passion for safeguarding? Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) Safeguarding Team is offering an exciting opportunity to join our dedicated team as a Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner for Children and Adults. In this role, you will provide expert safeguarding advice and operational support to the Deputy Head of Safeguarding, working across all aspects of safeguarding for both children and adults. You will collaborate closely with the Head of Safeguarding, Deputy Head of Safeguarding amed Nurse for Children and Adults, and the Named Doctor for Safeguarding Children to contribute to the professional leadership of the health service’s safeguarding responsibilities. This includes ensuring high standards of practice, promoting partnership working, and supporting the delivery of statutory safeguarding duties across the Trust. This role is offered on a hybrid working basis, providing flexibility to work both remotely and from the office. Interviews for this position will be held across the 11th and 12th of February. Main duties of the job As a Safeguarding Specialist Practitioner, you will hold a pivotal position in promoting safe and inclusive care across the Trust. This role involves providing expert advice and intervention in complex safeguarding cases concerning both adults and children, including matters related to domestic abuse, sexual safety, and high-risk scenarios. You will actively participate in statutory safeguarding processes, ensuring compliance with legislation, statutory guidance, and national standards. Working collaboratively with multi-agency partners on areas such as SEND and MAPPA, you will contribute to robust risk management and safeguarding planning. In addition, you will deliver safeguarding training and supervision, support policy development, and champion best practice across the organisation. Your work will directly safeguard service users and their families, mitigate risks of harm, and strengthen the Trust’s safeguarding culture. By ensuring timely, expert intervention and promoting inclusive practice, you will help maintain patient safety, uphold legal and regulatory obligations, and build staff confidence in managing safeguarding concerns. Working for our organisation The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development. There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers. We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank. Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa. Detailed job description and main responsibilities We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued. All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team [email protected] Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application. If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments. To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply. Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria - Registered practitioner (NMC registered Nurse, Allied Health Professional or Social Worker) with extensive experience within a related professional field (NHS or other statutory partners of the Local Safeguarding Board). Post registration training in safeguarding. Evidence of ongoing professional development at degree level. Skills Essential criteria - The individual should be able to communicate effectively including negotiating skills and conflict management. The post holder must have demonstrable experience of audit design, implementation and evaluation. The post holder will be able to demonstrate knowledge of risk management process and systems and have experience of the wider public health agenda. The post holder will have experience of teaching or training. Experience Essential criteria - Experience of multi-disciplinary working to safeguard children, young people and adults at risk. Experience of working in clinical care settings with children/families whose needs are complex and varied. Experience of critically analysing practice in order to improve outcomes for children, young people and adults at risk. Knowledge Essential criteria - The post holder should have and detailed understanding of inter-agency safeguarding procedures and have in depth understanding of the statutory responsibilities to safeguard children, young people and adults at risk. Have an awareness of the importance of effective interagency collaboration. The post holder should have understanding of NHS organisations and contemporary NHS issues ---------------------------------------- Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position based on a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow. Fixed Term Contracts for existing NHS Employees – temporary contracts for employees of LYPFT, or colleagues joining from another NHS Trust, will be offered on a secondment basis wherever possible. In the event this is not possible, an FTC would be issued and this would require a break in service of two weeks. The purpose of a temporary is role could be for maternity cover, temporary funding or some other reason. At the end of which the need for the temporary work will cease. Temporary roles can stop, be extended and/or made permanent at any point during the period of work. Should the role become permanent then the post-holder will be informed of the process to be followed to convert the position to a permanent one. All new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response. LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information. LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria. We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs. Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if enough applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible. In submitting an application form, you authorize Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post. In applying for a role please ensure that you only declare qualifications that are relevant to the role itself. We reserve the right to check all declared qualifications on an application form, whether they are directly relevant to the role or not. Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.