Safeguarding Specialist Practitioner Qsw Acute & Community Social Care in Guernsey

JOB-20241107-791d94d2

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Safeguarding Specialist Practitioner within the Adult QSW Acute & Community Social Care Team to work Full Time based in Guernsey.

The salary for this Safeguarding Specialist Practitioner job is up to £73,085 per annum.

Main duties:

•  Guide staff in providing care to patients/service users who lack capacity to make specific decisions for themselves and ensure the Mental Capacity Act is used lawfully within the field of adult safeguarding.
• Utilise specialist knowledge and skills to provide guidance, support, safeguarding supervision, and training to HSC professionals.
• To contribute to the operational delivery of the Mental Capacity Act, and support in any required implementation of changes in processes and systems.
• To propose, manage, evaluate and implements new service developments/projects, including actions as identified in service reviews in conjunction with the Adult Safeguarding Team.
• To participate in the Out of Hours safeguarding Service Manager rota as required.
• Provide specialist safeguarding supervision and support to staff in managing sensitive and distressing situations, involving complex and emotive issues in relation to adult safeguarding.
• Respond to any disclosure of a safeguarding concern, and signpost appropriately and be empathetic and provide reassurance to staff in dealing with sensitive, complex issues and concerns.
• Attend multi-agency strategy meetings and adult safeguarding case conferences/review meetings if required and support Health and Social Care Professionals when working with complex cases.
• Support other members of the Adult Safeguarding Team with their daily duties when completing prioritise arise within the Adult Safeguarding Team.
• Organise work in an effective and efficient manner to ensure deadlines are met in line with key performance indicators.
• Establish and maintain highly effective working relationships with colleagues within health including external agencies ensuring smooth and effective communication process.
• Assist the adult safeguarding leadership team in helping to facilitate and coordinate the provision of reports required and provide expert safeguarding advise to practitioners.
• Establish and maintain communication with multi agency groups and individuals working on complex and sensitive issues in a range of inter and multi-agency settings.
• Access regular support and supervision with the Head of Adult Safeguarding and agreed supervisors.

Requirements of this Safeguarding Specialist Practitioner job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact:
This Safeguarding Specialist Practitioner job is advertised by Zehnn Young; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

Voceer presents this job opportunity for Sanctuary Personnel, a 1000 person sized company who are categorized as a Recruitment Agency.

This position is being managed by Sanctuary Personnel, a reputable recruitment agency known for placing candidates in desirable positions.