Job summary
- Main area
- Safeguarding
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (NA)
- Hours
- Full time
- Job share
- Other
- Job ref
- 382-COR56-26
- Employer
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- blackpool teaching hospitals
- Town
- Blackpool
- Salary
- £32,073 - £39,043 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
ED Navigator - 6 Months Fixed Term
NHS AfC: Band 5
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
We are looking for an experienced Safeguarding Practitioner for children and adults, ensuring delivery of improved health outcomes for those at risk of harm from serious violence. The post holder will be based within the emergency department and will support victims of serious violence, whilst being an integral member of the multi-agency safeguarding team, ensuring that the health needs of this most vulnerable group are included in any multi-agency assessments. The post-holder will maximise positive outcomes for identified victims by building trusted relationships and supporting victims at a reachable and teachable moment. The post holder will work closely with ED staff, the Safeguarding Team, Police, Social Care and community services to ensure positive outcomes for victims. The post holder will work closely with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children to ensure appropriate quality assurance mechanisms are in place and to assist in the development and raising awareness of serious violence and knife crime across the Trust and support available through the ED navigator.
Main duties of the job
The scope of the post will include the development of effective inter-disciplinary and inter-agency communication and relationships to improve outcomes for vulnerable children and adults, who are victims of serious violence. The post holder will need to be a motivated and dynamic professional with experience of working with complex safeguarding issues. Excellent communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team are essential requirements of this post, as is the ability to work a varying shift pattern to cover the service 7 days a week and during unsociable hours.
Working for our organisation
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Safeguarding Practitioner for both children and adults will ensure the delivery of improved health outcomes for those at risk of harm from serious violence are provided. The post holder will be based within the emergency department and will support victims of serious violence, whilst being an integral member of the multi-agency safeguarding team, ensuring that the health needs of this most vulnerable group are included in any multi-agency assessments. The post-holder will maximise positive outcomes for identified victims by building trusted relationships and supporting victims at a reachable and teachable moment. The post holder will work closely with ED staff, the Safeguarding Team, Police, Social Care and community services to ensure positive outcomes for victims. The post holder will work closely with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children to ensure appropriate quality assurance mechanisms are in place and to assist in the development and raising awareness of serious violence and knife crime across the Trust and support available through the ED navigator.
Person specification
Education and Qualification
Essential criteria
- RGN, RMN or RM
- Evidence of proactive personal and professional development
- Educated to degree level
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and experience of reachable and teachable moments and trusted relationship models in practice
- Have substantial safeguarding experience
- Experience working with children and adults who are vulnerable and have complex safeguarding concerns including risk of exploitation
- Experience of dealing with safeguarding incidents.
- A good understanding of the importance of confidentiality and safeguarding
- Experience of participating in clinical and safeguarding supervision.
- Experience of participating and undertaking audits.
- Experience in dealing with highly contentious and emotive information
- Working knowledge of key legislation and policy relating to safeguarding children and safeguarding adults.
- Knowledge and understanding of the key issues facing victims of serious violence.
- Understanding the needs of culturally diverse communities and other hard to reach groups.
- Ability to work independently, but also a team player, able to contribute to the wider mission of the Organisation.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Demonstrate highly developed presentation skills and the ability to present information and training to large groups of staff –single or multi agency training
- Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
- Understanding of the principles of a trauma informed approach to care and the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on young people and adults
- Excellent leadership and critical thinking skills
- Ability to use community and acute IT patient systems
Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
- Excellent written, IT and communication skills, including report writing, presentations and use of Microsoft IT packages (Excel / PowerPoint / Word etc)
- Ability to motivate and empower colleagues.
- Ability to work in partnership, network, influence, problem solve, overcome barriers and apply solution focused approaches.
- Effective interpersonal and influencing skills including being able to communicate effectively across all disciplines and partner agencies
- Good understanding of the NHS, social care and police including the political, strategic and operational environment in which it operates.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lily McShane
- Job title
- Named Nurse Safeguarding Children
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 958186
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