Safeguarding Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 24/09/2026
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Role summary
Join the Safeguarding team as a Safeguarding Practitioner, providing specialist advisory, supportive, and educative services across the Trust, focusing on the 'think family' approach to Safeguarding Children. You will contribute to safeguarding work streams, facilitate multi-professional working, and ensure robust internal policies and guidance are in place. The role involves disseminating information, promoting best practice, and acting as a focal point for advice and specialist knowledge for colleagues and external partners. You will also support the Domestic Abuse agenda.
Essential criteria
- Relevant post registration experience at Band 5 or above
- Knowledge of Safeguarding underpinned by theory and experience
- Experience of multi professional and multi-agency working
- Experience of teaching
- Knowledge of local and National policy
- Knowledge of Domestic Abuse
Desirable criteria
- Research and development activity
- Audit
- Experience of delivering safeguarding children supervision.
- Working with pregnant people
- Qualification & Training
- Registered Professional with current NMC registration and safeguarding experience.
- Equivalent study related to safeguarding role
- Up to date knowledge of professional issues
- IT literate
- Demonstrate professional development post registration
- Degree / Teaching Qualification / course
- Supervision Qualification / training
- Personal Attributes & Skills
- Excellent communication skills including written and presentation
- Ability to deal with highly distressing or emotional circumstances
- Compassionate, demonstrating patient centred approach to care
- Precise and methodical in working practice and able to use own initiative.
- Resourceful and able to work autonomously
- Ability to analyse complex facts or situations and take appropriate actions.
- Solution focused.
- Experience of leading service development and reviews together with managing an operational role
- Knowledge & Experience
- Relevant post registration experience at Band 5 or above
- Knowledge of Safeguarding underpinned by theory and experience
- Experience of multi professional and multi-agency working
- Experience of teaching
- Knowledge of local and National policy
- Knowledge of Domestic Abuse
- Research and development activity
- Audit
- Experience of delivering safeguarding children supervision.
- Working with pregnant people
- Qualification & Training
- Registered Professional with current NMC registration and safeguarding experience.
- Equivalent study related to safeguarding role
- Up to date knowledge of professional issues
- IT literate
- Demonstrate professional development post registration
- Degree / Teaching Qualification / course
- Supervision Qualification / training
- Personal Attributes & Skills
- Excellent communication skills including written and presentation
- Ability to deal with highly distressing or emotional circumstances
- Compassionate, demonstrating patient centred approach to care
- Precise and methodical in working practice and able to use own initiative.
- Resourceful and able to work autonomously
- Ability to analyse complex facts or situations and take appropriate actions.
- Solution focused.
- Experience of leading service development and reviews together with managing an operational role
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS FT
Safeguarding Practitioner
The closing date is 24 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Safeguarding team as a Safeguarding Practitioner within the Trust. The focus on the work will be to provide Specialist advisory, supportive and educative services to colleagues across the Trust with a focus upon the think family approach to Safeguarding Children.
The post holder will contribute to the Safeguarding Children's work streams within the Trust and facilitate multi-professional / interagency working and training .
The post holder will work with the Named Midwife and Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children to ensure that there are robust internal policies and guidance in place, and will act as a focal point for the dissemination of information in relation to policy, procedures and training. They will assist the Named Midwife and Named Nurse for Children to develop professional safeguarding standards and promote best practice. They will be accessible and visible across Trust areas and support colleagues with accurate and relevant information to enhance safeguarding knowledge and support risk escalation.
They will act as a point of contact in order to provide advice and specialist knowledge for Trust colleagues and be the wider link for partners across the multi-agency network.
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