Senior Safeguarding Practitioner

Main area Safeguarding Practitioner Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Includes weekend working) Job  

Site RCHT Town Truro Salary £39,959 - £48,117 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 26/10/2026 23:59

Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

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Great Care

• Care based on what matters to people.
• Care provided at home or close to home.
• Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
• Prevention and alternatives to hospital.

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• Technology enabled care.
• Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
• Safe, efficient, effective and productive.

Great People

• A place people love to work and feel valued.
• Living our values with staff (all voices count).
• Attract, grow and develop talent.
• Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.

Great Partner

• Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
• Joined-up community services.
• Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
• Reduce our impact on the environment.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Are you passionate about protecting and supporting adults at risk? Do you have experience in safeguarding practice and want to help shape high-quality, person-centred care across a range of services? If so, we would love to hear from you.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Senior Safeguarding Practitioner to join our Safeguarding Team. The successful candidate will work predominantly with acute and community adult services, providing expert safeguarding advice, support and guidance to staff while helping to ensure the best possible outcomes for adults and their families.

Plan and provide supervision, support, training and advice and act as a source of specialist knowledge in matters relating to safeguarding adults, predominantly responsible for acute and community adult services. Work in allocated areas under the direction of the senior safeguarding team. Develop partnership working with statutory and voluntary organisations to aid communication and provide better outcomes for adults and families.

Ensure robust communication takes place minimising risks to the adults, families, and the organisation. To be available and accessible to frontline staff and safeguarding colleagues, both within the safeguarding office and within care environments. To line manage the safeguarding adult practitioner and the safeguarding assistant practitioner.

• Develop multi agency/ professional working partnerships and co-locate when appropriate to improve outcomes for adults and families.
• Work as team member within the safeguarding structure promoting the service and developing team skills.
• Attend multi agency safeguarding meetings as required.
• Provide support and advice on safeguarding issues to the RCHT and CPFT teams.
• Ensure there is a robust record keeping and storage system in place with the ability to evidence the supervision process and contact discussions.
• Support Deputy manager for integrated Safeguarding Services in the implementation of new guidance around…