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Senior Practitioner Safeguarding Coordinator (INTERNAL)East Sussex County Council • Lewes, England, UK
Senior Practitioner Safeguarding Coordinator (INTERNAL)

Senior Practitioner Safeguarding Coordinator (INTERNAL)

East Sussex County Council • Lewes, England, UK
26 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description
Description

Do you want to make a difference in safeguarding adults from abuse If you do an exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Quality Practice and Safeguarding Team.

We are recruiting a full-time Senior Practitioner Safeguarding Coordinator. This 6 month secondment is for a registered Social Worker with a proven record of being able to work in partnership with colleagues and partners to support and manage change in safeguarding adults. You must be confident in supporting learning and reflective practice and advising on complex safeguarding enquiries.

The Quality Practice and Safeguarding Team is responsible for improving professional practice and achieving better outcomes for people and is formed of three sub teams one is primarily focussed on quality and professional practice of our safeguarding dutiesand the other responsible for defining supporting and improving practice of our other statutory duties. The third is focussed on support of our Safeguarding Adults Board Team. This role is for thesafeguarding Co-ordinator/Senior Practitioner in the safeguarding sub team.

The role requires the successful candidate to be linked to a number of operational teams to provide support as required. A significant part of this role is to attend MARAC meetings as the representative for Adult Social Care and Health and to take forward any associated MARAC development work. You will be required to undertake planned and random audits and engage in quality assurance work to ensure good practice and learning is identified and acted on.

In addition there will be a need to review and develop guidance to ensure statutory duties and effective practice is communicated to colleagues and partners. You willneed to prepare presentations and briefings on a range of safeguarding topics including learning from Safeguarding Adult Reviews. There will also be exciting opportunities to support the work of the Safeguarding Adults Board and engage with key partner agencies to ensure there is consistency in local safeguarding practice.

We are looking for a candidate who:

  1. Extensive knowledge about Safeguarding Adults Policy and Procedures and relevant legislation.
  2. Experience of undertaking safeguarding enquiries.
  3. Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues health professionals members of the public and other agencies.
  4. Ability to write and present information to a very high standard.
  5. A commitment to equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice.

This is a secondment opportunity which is only available to existing ESCC employees. Please review the Secondment Policy (Secondments and Acting Up arrangements ESCC Intranet) for more information.

Please download the
Job Description and Person Specificationfor more information.

To apply for this role please follow the Apply Now button above and upload your CV and a supporting statement. We will be using your supporting statement to shortlist so please be sure to address how you meet all the criteria in the job description and person specificationdrawing on any relevant work/life experience education or personal interests.

For guidance on how to write an application see ourhow to apply pageand ourstatement on the use of AI.

The interviews will take place via MS the job interview you will be required to give a 10-minute presentation. If you are successful in being shortlisted we will give you the details about the presentation in an email to you.

Candidates who meet certain criteria are given priority when we shortlist. See ourpriority status page for details.

In this job you will be contributing directly to achieving best practice and the statutory requirements needed to safeguard adults from abuse and/or neglect.

We offer a diverse range of benefits to help and support you during your employment. More information can be found on ourbenefits page.

For an informal discussion about this opportunity contact either of the below to request a MS teams call or phone call:

Helen Boyle Operations Manager
Jayne Manser Practice Manager at

Angela Venning Practice Manager at


For a team that supports you choose East Sussex.





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