The Safeguarding, Public Protection and Mental Capacity Team are expanding and are offering exciting opportunities for new safeguarding, public protection and mental capacity practitioners. This is a varied and dynamic role, within a supportive team, who have strong values and work towards a shared vision to support the organisation and ensure that the people who access our services' safety is paramount and their rights promoted and upheld.

You will be supported to develop specialist knowledge of safeguarding, public protection and mental capacity knowledge and have the opportunity to share this knowledge through delivering training to the organisation, providing support and advice, developing understanding of clinical services and developing strong relationships with frontline teams. Representing information in multi agency meetings to advocate for people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and autism to promote understanding and develop systems that work together to safeguard adults, children and families.

We are welcoming applications from people with experience of working within mental health, learning disability and autism with experience of applying safeguarding within their role and a passion for promoting the importance of safety and working to empower people through safeguarding processes and the mental capacity act so that they can live safe and fulfilling lives.

Main duties of the job

Within this post you will be an integral member of the team, developing skills in delivering training, working to create a safeguarding hub that is responsive and provides an increasingly supportive function within the organisation and attending multi-agency meetings, particularly for high risk domestic abuse to work with the multi agency to support understanding of mental health and learning disability and autism and appropriate access to services with an aim of increasing safety and improving people's lives.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

This post is suitable for someone educated to degree level in mental health/social care or another relevant subject or equivalent experience within the mental health field of working. With experience of working within mental health or learning disability services and applying safeguarding processes in practice.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy

Competitive annual leave allowance

Car leasing scheme

Childcare Vouchers

NHS pension scheme

Free eye tests

Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme

Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level in mental health/social care or another relevant subject or equivalent experience within the mental health field of working
• Safeguarding Children Level 3
• Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Level 3
• Mental Capacity Act Training Level 3
• Domestic abuse training
• Mental Capacity Act Level 3

Desirable

• Supervision Training or Qualification
• Professional qualification to degree level in Social Work, Nursing, Psychology, Medical or Occupational Therapy
• Presentation and training qualification
• Leadership Training or Qualification

Experience

Essential

• Safeguarding adults at risk, children, MAPP and domestic abuse in clinical practice
• Use of MCA (2005) including Deprivation of Liberty in clinical practice
• Working in an advisory capacity to others
• Liaising and networking with other agencies and internal services
• Delivering information to small groups
• Knowledge of Prevent and the risk of radicalisation
• Working in mental health services

Desirable

• Supervision of other clinicians or staff on a group or individual basis
• Leadership experience
• Report writing - for example Root Cause Analysis, MHA or court reports
• Developing and/or delivering training programmes
• Specialist knowledge/experience around domestic abuse, safeguarding adults/children and/or public protection
• Specialist knowledge around the Mental Capacity Act and DoLS

Skills

Essential

• Analytical skills
• Communication skills in relation to escalating concerns with other agencies and respectful challenge
• Ability to prioritise competing objectives and work load
• A desire to uphold people's Human Rights and to ensure they live free from abuse

Desirable

• Sharing of proportionate information that is complex and concerns risk
• Complex case management
• The ability to support clinical staff who are dealing with complex and at times emotionally challenging cases

Employer details

Employer name

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Welton House

Lime Kiln Way

Lincoln

LN2 4WH

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