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Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
About
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) officially attained Teaching Hospital status on 1st April 2020; this is the start of our ambition to achieve University Teaching Hospital status. Supported by Edge Hill University, the University of Bolton and the University of Central Lancashire, with approval from regulators NHS Improvement/England and the Department of Health and Social Care, from the 1st April 2020, the Trust will now be known as Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL).
Attaining Teaching Hospital status enables WWL to further enhance education and training capacity, grow research capability and improve the recruitment and retention of high quality staff across all professions. Ultimately, this will result in a positive impact on the quality of care and outcomes for patients.
Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner (Adult)
Accepting applications until: 19-Aug-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 19-Aug-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Royal Albert Edward Infirmary
- Address
- Wigan Lane
- Town
- Wigan
- Postcode
- WN1 2NN
- Major / Minor Region
- Lancashire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- 16 months (This vacancy is open to all internal and external candidates. NHS Employees should ideally secure their manager’s agreement for a secondment arrangement ideally prior to applying, as this will be a condition of any offer made. This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term basis for 16 months as it has been established to provide cover for an employee on maternity leave. Whilst this post is advertised on a fixed term / secondment basis there is the potential that this post may become permanent in the future.)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Corporate Services
People at the Heart. One Team. Your Career at WWL.
Job overview
Would you like to work as part of a friendly, passionate, and caring safeguarding team?
We are seeking a highly experienced practitioner with a strong interest in safeguarding adults and has a genuine commitment to safeguarding under a whole family strategy.
The post holder will be expected to demonstrate a sound understanding of the issues relating to adults within a safeguarding context. The Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner Think Family (Adults) will work closely with Named Safeguarding Professionals and multi-professional clinical teams to ensure that the Trust’s statutory responsibilities to safeguard and promote the welfare of adults are met.
Candidates are required to show evidence of their original certificates for qualifications to the interview panel.
This vacancy is open to all internal and external candidates. NHS Employees should ideally secure their manager’s agreement for a secondment arrangement ideally prior to applying, as this will be a condition of any offer made.
This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term basis for 16 months as it has been established to provide cover for an employee on maternity leave. Whilst this post is advertised on a fixed term / secondment basis there is the potential that this post may become permanent in the future.
Please note that this vacancy may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received. We encourage interested candidates to apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Advert
Safeguarding at Wrightington Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust encompasses, promoting the welfare of children/young people and adults considerate of a Think Family approach to protect from harm. The post holder will be expected to demonstrate a sound understanding of the issues relating to children, young people, and families within a safeguarding context.
Working closely with Named Safeguarding Professionals and multi-professional clinical teams to ensure that the Trust’s statutory responsibilities to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people, adults and their families are met.
Working for our organisation
Choose Well - Choose WWL
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that 'happy staff, makes for happy patients'. We have a recognized track record in staff engagement and living our values.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind, we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To work with all staff to provide support, advice and expert guidance to assist in exercising duties and responsibilities for safeguarding of children, young people, adults and their families
- To deputise for Named Safeguarding Professionals within the WWL Think Family Safeguarding Team
- To be a competent, knowledgeable, and visible practitioner, ensuring the provision of a high-quality Think Family Safeguarding Service.
- Assess, implement, plan, and evaluate care and interventions for service users with complex safeguarding needs.
- To complete safeguarding audits as per the Think Family Safeguarding Audit calendar.
- Maintain and develop own levels of specialist knowledge and skills in relation to safeguarding and clinical practice. To access regular clinical supervision for own personal and professional development, whilst ensuring participation with management supervision and annual performance reviews.
- Work collaboratively as part of the WWL Think Family Safeguarding Service, in the continued progression and development of such ensuring delivery of the Think Family Safeguarding Strategy.
- Referral of safeguarding concerns as per statutory processes, local and internal policy, and procedure, to ensure coordinated approach in meeting the needs of service users who are at risk of/suffering abuse and/or neglect.
- Work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to ensure children, young people, adults and their family’s needs are met.
- To escalate safeguarding concerns, internally and externally as per local, regional and National directives.
- To assist with the development, implementation and evaluation of action plans and recommendations of lessons learned from Children Safeguarding Practice reviews, Safeguarding Adult Reviews, brief learning reviews and Domestic Homicide reviews. Ensuring timely and regular review of such to provide assurance.
- To support managers and staff in the delivery of high-quality care throughout the journey of the child, young person, adult, and families (particularly with respect to robust discharge planning) by promoting innovative and progressive attitude to the continual improvement of safeguarding practice.
- Provide safeguarding supervision and case management guidance, inclusive of supporting staff to professionally challenge, where safeguarding concerns have not been adequately addressed. To identify emerging themes and inform future training and support needs.
- Facilitate good standards of record keeping, report and statement writing in line with NMC, other professional regulatory bodies and Trust guidelines.
- Attend as required all appropriate safeguarding meetings, to advocate on behalf of service users, acting as a support to staff or as a representative of the Trust.
- To promote a right’s-based approach in the safeguarding of service users and their families
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current NMC Registration or relevant regulatory body
- Post registration education in Child Protection/Safeguarding children and/or adults’ module at graduate level or willingness to undertake.
- Evidence of continued professional development and experiential learning
- Teaching/training qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Leadership or Management qualification
- Specialist Practitioner Qualification
- Educated to degree level or equivalent knowledge and experience.
- Safeguarding Supervision qualification or willingness to undertake within 12 months.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Recent and extensive experience relating to caring for children, young people, adults and families
- Experience of Safeguarding Children and/or Adults
- Experience of team working, multi-agency working and ability to work co-operatively.
- Clinical credibility demonstrated through experience in safeguarding children
- Experience of representing the organisation at safeguarding meetings
- Experience in providing safeguarding support and advice
- Experience of developing, implementing, delivering, and evaluating training
- Experience of key elements of change management
- Experience of undertaking audits
- Experience of report writing
Desirable criteria
- Clinical/safeguarding supervision experience
- Experience of working within an Acute/Community Health Care Setting
- Experience of research activity
- Experience of contributing to local Safeguarding Children/Adult Board subgroups and associated work streams
- Experience of managing professional challenge
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- Excellent time management skills and the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Demonstrated leadership skills
- Ability to work autonomously and effectively as part of team, with minimal supervision
- Ability to analyse and interpret data, information and situations – offering appropriate advice and guidance
- Excellent planning and organisational skills and ability to adjust plans to meet demands of service
- Demonstrate confidence in dealing with highly sensitive, emotive and emotionally challenging information and situations
- Computer literacy and ability to devise and maintain IT or paper based systems
- Excellent teaching and presentation skills
- Ability to manage personal stress and that of others in highly emotive and distressing circumstances
- Experience of policy development and/or implementation.
- In depth knowledge of trauma informed and responsive approaches when safeguarding children and adults.
- Knowledge of strategy, guidelines and policy development in relation to safeguarding
- Understanding of the impact domestic abuse, child/adult mental ill health, substance misuse and adverse childhood experiences.
- Knowledge of National, regional and local safeguarding polices and strategic safeguarding priorities.
- Comprehensive knowledge of legislation relating to Safeguarding Adults and/or Children and the implications for practice and governance arguments.
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of the current issues affecting safeguarding and protecting children and adults in practice, including clinical effectiveness, evidence-based practice and clinical governance
Desirable criteria
- Able to demonstrate an awareness of the complex issues when working across organisations and disciplines
- Ability to think widely and analyse problems and develop solutions
Additional
Essential criteria
- Ability to work in an equal opportunity environment
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- Ability to respond quickly and effectively to an unpredictable workload within a highly stressful environment
- Reliability
- Willingness and ability to travel to meet the requirements of the role
- Flexible working to meet the needs of the service
- Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation
Desirable criteria
- Flexible and motivated team player approach
- Experience of cascading information
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amy Booth
- Job title
- Named Professional for Safeguarding Adults
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 707 4858
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
- Buckingham Row
- Brick Kiln Lane
- Wigan
- WN1 1XX
- Telephone
- 07786529393
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