Safeguarding Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

City Health Care Partnership CIC

Job summary

In this role, you’ll be trusted to provide specialist safeguarding advice, helping protect children, young people and adults at risk of harm. You’ll work with health, social care and partner agencies, using your expertise to support safe, person-centered decisions.

Main duties of the job

What you’ll do:

  • Provide specialist advice and support to colleagues managing complex safeguarding concerns
  • Assess safeguarding risks and help professionals make safe, evidence-based decisions
  • Work with partner agencies and contribute to safeguarding reviews, meetings and learning
  • Deliver safeguarding training, supervision and support to strengthen practice
  • Lead and contribute to audits, quality improvement and the development of safeguarding guidance

What we’re looking for:

  • A qualified nurse, allied health professional or social worker with current professional registration
  • A relevant postgraduate qualification, or equivalent specialist knowledge, skills and experience
  • Strong safeguarding knowledge and experience of analysing complex cases involving adults, children, young people and families
  • Clear communication skills and confidence working independently and collaboratively across services

We welcome applications from different backgrounds and communities, and value fairness, respect, inclusion and everyone’s contribution.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree/Diploma in Adult/Children’s Nursing /Allied Professional or Social Worker
  • Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council/HCPC or Social Work England
  • Postgraduate qualification in relevant health or social care study or equivalent level of knowledge, skills and experience

Desirable

  • Teaching qualification e.g. 7307, PGCE

Knowledge

Essential

  • Sound knowledge of legislation that underpins safeguarding practice e.g. Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Children’s Act 1989/2004, Working Together 2026
  • Significant highly specialist safeguarding knowledge gained through postgraduate study, specialist training and extensive safeguarding experience.
  • Basic IT skills
  • Knowledge of Clinical governance, professional development and clinical leadership agendas
  • Understanding of clinical risk/reporting issues
  • A knowledge and commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults with care and support needs.
  • Possesses well-developed knowledge and keeps safeguarding practice base up to date to provide guidance and training to staff

Desirable

  • Knowledge of local policy and procedures relating to safeguarding

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrable experience of working with adults, children, young people and families where welfare concerns have been integral to the role and where critical thinking and analysis of complex cases has been required/evidenced
  • Able to work to a high degree of independence but participative in team activities with colleagues within multi-disciplinary teams including presenting sensitive and complex information
  • Experience of implementing safeguarding processes, policies and procedures including applying the principles of the Mental Capacity Act
  • Experience of developing and delivering training and/ or presentations

Desirable

  • Wide ranging experience of care planning for adults with care and support needs. Maybe something around transitional safeguarding
  • Confident in the requirements of audit processes and can utilise these to inform the governance agenda of the Organisation
  • Able to organise and lead meetings e.g. Supervision, staff group & Team briefings, Multi agency meetings
  • Experienced in/qualified in leading Safeguarding Supervision
  • Experience of developing and implementing policies and procedures
  • Experience of challenging poor or inadequate practice

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: 30 November 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.