Senior Safeguarding Advisor; Band 7

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Safeguarding Advisor (Band
7) to join our Nursing and Care team. This role is to provide high quality support to the Safeguarding Strategy and Assurance Lead and the wider organisation, to ensure the organisation meets its regulatory responsibilities to safeguard children, young people and vulnerable adults.

The role of Senior Safeguarding Advisor is to provide high quality support to the Safeguarding Strategy and Assurance Lead and the wider organisation, to ensure the organisation meets its regulatory responsibilities to safeguard children, young people and vulnerable adults. You will provide specialist advice and consultation across the multi-disciplinary team to support children who are looked after, liaising with external professionals to support liberty protections safeguards and mental capacity.

The post holder will apply social work values, theory, knowledge and skills required to support safety and wellbeing for children and young adults with complex neurodisability and acquired brain injuries. You will play a key role in promoting excellent professional practice within the organisation, providing advice, support, training, supervision and expertise for fellow professionals, and ensure safeguarding training and supervision is in place from board to floor.

The Childrens Trust is the UKs leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service.

Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 and accessible via National Rail, by way of Clapham Junction, Sutton, and Epsom.

The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including adoption pay, time off for fertility treatment, enhanced paternity leave, paid carers leave, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms, and time off for gender reassignment.

We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service.

Other benefits include free on-site parking; a staff shuttle service from Epsom and Sutton train stations to Tadworth Court, subsidised cafeteria, on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability), the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme, and the opportunity to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Safeguarding

You will work closely with our teams to ensure The Childrens Trust meets its statutory responsibilities to protect the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.

Support the organisation to meet statutory duties for Looked After Children, including oversight of care planning standards and close liaison with external professionals.

Provide specialist advice and consultation to the wider MDT for CLA, LPS, DOLS and MCA, keeping abreast of policy and national changes.

• Ensure any CYP in the assessment stage have their social care status and safeguarding concerns identified and managed, working closely with external partners
• Provide advice underpinned by specialist knowledge to the organisation on Looked After Children, safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, incorporating local and national guidance and statutory regulations.
• Lead the high-quality delivery of the organisations mandatory safeguarding training programme.
• Create and/or utilise opportunities for recordable Safeguarding Supervision.
• Provide Safeguarding Supervision to individuals or groups, ensuring appropriate reflective practice is embedded.
• Support analysis of regulatory compliance data, against safeguarding training and supervision.
• Effectively communicate local safeguarding knowledge, research and findings from audits, challenge poor practice and address areas where there is an identified training/development opportunity.
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