Senior Specialist Adult Safeguarding Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves supporting and guiding staff on adult protection cases, working collaboratively with agencies to safeguard vulnerable adults. It focuses on promoting personalized and safe care, ensuring effective responses to harm, and using learning for improvement. The practitioner will empower patients, support informed consent, and assist in implementing the Mental Capacity and Equality Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards across the Trust.
Key responsibilities
- Provide training to frontline health professionals on Adult Protection, Mental Capacity, and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
- Offer specialist advice and support to staff regarding Mental Capacity assessments and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
- Advise staff on Safeguarding Adults issues, including attending strategy meetings and case conferences.
- Facilitate safeguarding supervision following incidents.
- Ensure vulnerable adults and their relatives/carers are involved in care decisions and service development, engaging advocacy when needed.
Essential criteria
- Minimum 5 years post registration experience
- At least 3 years Band 6 experience in a leadership role.
- Demonstrate the ability to be a strong advocate for the welfare, protection and rights of adults at risk.
- Clear safeguarding experience, with a highly developed specialist knowledge of the subject area
- Able to communicate complex information effectively across disciplines and agencies
- Able to question and analyse information and to make sound judgements often under pressure in difficult circumstances
- Able to deliver training to large groups and to communicate this knowledge effectively
- Evidence of good communication skills, written, verbal and presentation
- Resolving user concerns effectively
- Ability to provide specialist advice and support to staff members with Mental Capacity assessments and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- Experience in completing s42 investigations
- Demonstrable understanding of safeguarding adults as per the Care Act 2014
- Demonstrable understanding of Making Safeguarding Personal
- Ability to deal with change and confrontation
- Understanding of continuous quality improvement
- Understanding of Local, regional and national Safeguarding agenda
- Understanding of Clinical Governance agenda
- Understanding of risk management and CQC/NHS/LA standards
- Demonstrate a patient and carer centred approach
- Experience of providing training for staff
- Confident use of IT systems including office programs, email, calendars, spreadsheets and clinical systems.
- Understanding of current Health Service Priorities
- Ability to travel between EKHUFT sites
- To be aware of and adhere to the Trust's Vision, Mission and Values
- Registered Nurse or registered health or social care professional
- Degree related to professional role or extensive relevant experience and willingness to undertake further education
Desirable criteria
- Experience of clinical supervision as supervisee
- Experience of Multiagency working
- Experience within a community, primary care or commissioning setting
- Willingness to undertake further training
- Teaching qualification
- Working towards a first or second level degree qualification
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 2d ago · Closes in 5d
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East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Specialist Adult Safeguarding Practitioner
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
To support and guide staff on adult protection cases and work in partnership with all agencies providing safeguarding to vulnerable adults.
Promote personalised and safe care as part of a prevention strategy.
Promote effective responses when harm is detected. Use learning to improve prevention and protection.
Empower patients to be heard and support informed consent, supporting the implementation of the Mental Capacity and Equality Act and Deprivation of Liberty across the Trust
Main duties of the job
o To provide training to frontline health professionals in relation to Adult Protection, Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, promoting good practice and ensure that staff are aware of their responsibilities in Safeguarding Adults in all settings.
o To provide specialist advice and support to staff members with Mental Capacity assessments and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
o To support and advise staff on issues related to Safeguarding Adults, with occasional attendance at strategy meetings and case conferences.
o Facilitating safeguarding supervision following safeguarding incidents .
o Ensure that vulnerable adults and their relatives/carers are involved in decisions affecting their car
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