Senior Safeguarding Practitioner

Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust Safeguarding Team.

*Subject to Banding*

We are looking to recruit 2 full time and one part time Band 7 Senior Safeguarding Practitioners with responsibility to support the national rollout of Families First Programme. This is a new position that addresses the requirements for reform as part of Working Together to safeguard Children 2026.

The post is based at Gwendolen House (subject to change) with the requirements of the attached job description and person specification being a post requirement.

This is an opportunity to consolidate and further develop your safeguarding knowledge and expertise. You will be working across the Adult and Children Safeguarding agenda.

This post has responsibility for working under the guidance of the Lead Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children and Lead Named Practitioner for Safeguarding Adults (MCA /DoLS / MAPPA / Prevent Focus) to strengthen delivery of safeguarding assurance processes across LPT and the wider Leicester City, Leicestershire and Rutland area.

• To deliver effective safeguarding supervision to staff working within front line services, ensuring risk areas within cases are managed effectively and that staff are adequately supported.
• To support & contribute to the planning, delivery and evaluation of LPT safeguarding education and training programmes.
• To work in partnership with partner agencies and professionals, within safeguarding processes to improve outcomes for all utilising the Whole Family approach adopted by LPT.
• To support and contribute to the development of the multi agency child protection team.

There are three full-time positions. All applicants must have extensive clinical experience of case-load management and working with people at risk to fulfil the requirements of this exciting new role.

Contact Details

Natalie Asser Head of Safeguarding for Children, Young people and Adults ***email_hidden***

Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)

You will work as part of the LPT Safeguarding Team comprising of the Head of Safeguarding, Lead Practitioner for Safeguarding(MCA/DoLS/MAPPA/Prevent Focus), Lead Practitioner for Safeguarding Children(Named Nurse), specialist safeguarding practitioners and administrative support. In the role you will support the development and delivery of high quality safeguarding practice across the range of services provided by Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT).

You will work as a health representative in the multi agency child protection team as part of the Families First programme due to be rolled out in Leicester City, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Please see attached Job Description/Person Specification for further details.

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information including AI in our recruitment process can be found in the Information for Applicants document attached.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.