GESH Adult Safeguarding Practitioner (SGUH)
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- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
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Role summary
This full-time role involves working within a dedicated Safeguarding team to provide advice, training, support, and coordination for adult safeguarding across St George's, Epsom & St Helier Hospitals Group. The post holder will promote and develop local provisions to meet legislative requirements, manage complex safeguarding cases autonomously, and contribute to strategic development and training. This position is open to social workers, registered nurses, and allied health professionals with relevant experience, including in the Mental Capacity Act.
Essential criteria
- Current registration with a regulatory body within health and social care
- Qualified BIA or willingness to undertake
- Masters level degree or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Comptency based teaching qualification
- Post registration expereince including relevant safeguarding experience within the NHS/LA or other setting
- Demonstrable understanding of the role of safeguarding practitioner
- Experience of managing complex cases
- Experience of working with MCA
- Able to follow procedures and protocols
- Ability to carry out risk assessment and apply in practice
- Independent decision making and case oversight
- Able to communicate with patients/families and MDT about Adult Safeguarding
- Able to communicate about MCA/DoLs
- Current registration with a regulatory body within health and social care
- Qualified BIA or willingness to undertake
- Masters level degree or equivalent experience
- Comptency based teaching qualification
- Post registration expereince including relevant safeguarding experience within the NHS/LA or other setting
- Demonstrable understanding of the role of safeguarding practitioner
- Experience of managing complex cases
- Experience of working with MCA
- Able to follow procedures and protocols
- Ability to carry out risk assessment and apply in practice
- Independent decision making and case oversight
- Able to communicate with patients/families and MDT about Adult Safeguarding
- Able to communicate about MCA/DoLs
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £58,133 – £65,261 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
GESH Adult Safeguarding Practitioner (SGUH)
The closing date is 27 September 2026
Job summary
This is a full time role based at SGH but with cross site working at Epsom and St Helier as required
- This role will work in a small, dedicated Safeguarding team providing safeguarding adults advice, training, support and coordination to our organisation.
- The role will support the promotion and development of local provision to meet the legislative requirements of the Care Act and associated NHS and Trust Safeguarding guidance and policies to ensure patients are supported and kept safe.
- The Safeguarding team is part of Gesh Group (St George's, Epsom & St Helier Hospitals Group) and this post is site based between St Helier and Epsom General Hospital.
- This role is open to social workers, registered nurses and allied health professionals with the relevant experience.
- The role will support with MCA related work. As a band 7 position, the staff member must be able to manage complex safeguarding cases and act autonomously.
- This role will also include identifying and working on strategic areas for development in adult safeguarding within the trust.
- The post holder will be proactive in the delivery of mandatory and bespoke training linked to our teams work in accordance with the Trust's Safeguarding Training
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