Some key information
- This role provides the opportunity to work across the county.
- 30 days' annual leave (in addition to bank holidays).
- The contract offered is permanent and full-time (37.5 hours per week).
What will I be doing?
We’re working to improve the lives of people in Somerset – and you’ll be a key part of that.
As a safeguarding advisor, you will be operating in the safeguarding team as a front door practitioner where you will be attending/researching strategy discussions, and MASH meetings to give specialist knowledge regarding public health nursing. Working alongside partner agencies you will be actively contributing to the assessment of need and risk for children, adults and their families to safeguard and promote their welfare.
Your day-to-day work will involve:
- Identifying those children who are vulnerable and/or at risk of harm, responding appropriately to incidents of actual or suspected abuse and to ensure the child protection practices is in line with local and national guidelines and policies.
- Investigating and escalating complaints and incidents at a team level.
- Working with PHN team and wider safeguarding system to improve outcomes for children and families.
- Liaising with other agencies, professionals and organisations to keep them well informed of service provision and with consent, advise on individual cases.
- Attending professionally related working groups which are involved in developing and agreeing local policies, protocols and standard setting to identify and respond to local health needs.
What kind of experience or qualifications do I need?
You are a registered Nurse or have a degree or equivalent level of professional safeguarding practice e.g. social worker, education or police. You will:
- Have awareness and working knowledge of current safeguarding legislation, guidelines and best practices.
- Demonstrate working knowledge of the Public Health Nursing role.
- Practical safeguarding experience in a specialist capacity preferably with children and young people.
- Are confident in using digital systems for documentation, communication, and data analysis.
- Can manage challenging and sensitive situations with professionalism and empathy.
We’re proud to be here for the people of Somerset. And that means everyone in Somerset. An important part of this is ensuring that we are as diverse and inclusive as the people and communities we serve.
We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team. You can always contact the hiring manager for a chat if there’s anything you want to talk about before you apply.
What's in it for me?
We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset.
We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:
- We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
- Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Staff discounts in gyms.
- Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
- Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
- A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
- My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more
Anything else I should know?
For an informal chat about the role, you can contact Gemma Hine, Named Nurse, Safeguarding at
[email protected].
The Salary for the role is in line with Agenda for Change, Band 6, £38,682 to £46,580 per annum.
When completing your application/CV please provide your full employment history and ensure that any gaps in employment are explained. Please start with your current or most recent employment.
If you have all the information you need, just hit the apply button - we can’t wait to hear from you.
DBS information
This post requires a criminal background check via the Disclosure procedure.
