Safeguarding Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Job summary

A fantastic opportunity has arisen within Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust to appoint a skilled, motivated, and enthusiastic Registered Professional to join the Safeguarding Team.

The Safeguarding Practitioner will be an experienced practitioner with in-depth knowledge of adults at risk and child protection and advanced analytical skills for safeguarding acquired through specialist courses and experiential learning from interagency work.

As part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust’s Safeguarding Team, the successful post holder will be provided with a thorough induction package and professional development opportunities in the area of Safeguarding.

The role will be office based with some opportunity for hybrid working depending on the needs of the service.

Main duties of the job

The main purpose of this post is to primarily work with the Safeguarding Children’s function of the team however there is an aspiration for practitioners to be able to work across both adult and children’s functions in the future, therefore this is an all-age practitioner role.

The adult and children’s safeguarding teams are based at Stoke Mandeville Hospital but have responsibility for working with acute and community services, and the MASH (Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub) which will therefore require travel Trustwide.

The post holder will work within a bigger team in order to provide:

  • expert advice and support for colleagues in relation to safeguarding adults and child protection concerns
  • safeguarding adults and child protection training for all colleagues
  • safeguarding adults and child protection supervision for colleagues
  • effective communication channels with the Buckinghamshire Safeguarding Adults and Children’s boards
  • robust internal policies and guidelines for safeguarding children and adults
  • representing BHT in the MASH (Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub).

Person Specification

Values

Essential

  • Communicates openly, honestly, and professionally, and actively promotes team working and building strong working relationships
  • Patients are always first. Drives service improvements. Strong self-awareness with a desire to grow.
  • Treats all with compassion and kindness. Ensures everyone feels valued.
  • Consults others and listens to their views/opinions. Enables others to take the initiative

EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING eg Education, professional qualifications

Essential

  • NMC Registered Nurse RGN/RMN/RNLD, Registered Social worker or Registered HCPC AHP.
  • Relevant degree or working towards or demonstrate equivalent in experience and knowledge
  • Experience working with adults at risk and/or children
  • Experience of delivering training.

EXPERIENCE e.g. Breadth of occupational experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in a clinical area in community or acute as a Band 6 with a minimum of 3 years’ experience in that grade.
  • Knowledge of local and national guidance and research in relation to Safeguarding Children and/or Adults.
  • Knowledge of legal framework and of political and policy changes affecting Safeguarding Children and/or Adults.
  • Knowledge of data protection and NHS code of confidentiality.
  • Experience of working with safeguarding policies and procedures.
  • Experience with close liaison with multi-disciplinary teams and multiagency staff.
  • Awareness and understanding of the wider health and safety, clinical risk, and quality issues.
  • Awareness and understanding of equality and diversity.

SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE e.g., Communication skills, excellent organisation skills, etc

Essential

  • Excellent interpersonal skills to enable effective working with all groups and all levels of staff, other agencies and public.
  • Ability to self-manage workload and ensure it is prioritised, as well as escalating when appropriate
  • IT Literacy skills sufficient to produce reports, conduct research and communicate via e-mail
  • Ability to facilitate learning in others using a variety of methods
  • Ability to analyse issues / problems and devise and implement appropriate plan of action

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES e.g., Ability to work internal rotation

Essential

  • Full UK Driving License to enable travel between sites and off site meetings
  • Enhanced DBS clearance

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 6 September 2026

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