Band 7 Children’s Safeguarding Practitioner | Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Practitioner to join the established Safeguarding Children Team within Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop their skills and competence as a Children’s Safeguarding Practitioner, working across the Birmingham and Solihull Multi‑Agency Safeguarding Hubs. This role involves close partnership working with other health colleagues, the police, and social workers.

The Children’s Safeguarding Practitioner will work as a committed and expert member of a specialist team, delivering a high‑quality safeguarding service. This includes providing expert advice on the day‑to‑day management of children and their families, participating in risk assessments, and delivering specialised safeguarding supervision. The post holder will also support frontline practitioners in developing reports and forming safeguarding plans. While this role requires clinical knowledge, it does not involve direct patient care.

The post holder will hold responsibility and professional accountability as a Safeguarding Practitioner for safeguarding children, including contextual safeguarding, which encompasses child exploitation.

As part of the specialist team, the practitioner will ensure that quality training, supervision, audits, and expert advice are available to enable the Trust to meet its statutory responsibilities for safeguarding children.

The role requires specific expertise in children’s and adults’ health needs, identifying and responding to maltreatment, and understanding local safeguarding arrangements. The post holder will operate within the Think Family approach and the contextual safeguarding agenda, ensuring coordinated and effective protection for children and vulnerable adults.

Please ensure you check your TRAC account regularly, as this will be our primary method of communication during the shortlisting and selection process.

Make sure all sections of the application form are fully completed. In particular, provide full details for all referees, including business email addresses.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) employs over 5,000 staff across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. We deliver more than 100 clinical services in people’s homes, health centres, clinics, and inpatient facilities.

Our services cover children, young people, parents, and families, as well as adults and community services. We also provide care through two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre, and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry.

All of this is delivered with a commitment to integrated, personalised care rooted in our local communities. BCHC aims to provide outstanding, integrated care as one of the leading NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to be part of our team and work with a Foundation Trust that continuously strives for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

• The post holder will not have any line management or financial responsibility.

• Deliver specialist safeguarding supervision to health professionals on issues related to safeguarding children, facilitating reflective and critical analysis against agreed outcomes.
• Act as an advocate for children and young people, raising awareness of their needs and promoting the philosophy of placing children at the centre of care.
• Ensure expert advice and support is available for the day‑to‑day management of children and families where there are safeguarding concerns.

• Rotate into the Multi‑Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) across Birmingham and Solihull, working as part of a co‑located multi‑agency team including police officers, social workers, and other providers.
• Participate in MASH risk assessments to inform case management of children at risk of…