Job summary
- Main area
- Emergency Department
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months (Service is funded until 30 April 2026)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 200-NN-7286829-CA-A
- Employer
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Georges Hospital NHS Trust
- Town
- Tooting
- Salary
- £44,806 - £53,134 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Serious Violence Practitioner
Band 6
Job overview
We are looking for a motivated individual, with a strong understanding of safeguarding, and who understands the complexities of undertaking assessments in adults who have experienced violence. A positive, can do 'attitude', a commitment to changing care for this extremely vulnerable patient group, and a desire to communicate with a wide variety of partners and stakeholders is essential.
Main duties of the job
The Band 6 Serious Violence Practitioner will hold a caseload and work with the patients in a range of settings, including face-to-face in the emergency department, on hospital wards, via telephone, in group contexts and in the community. They will promote their personal, health and social development by undertaking a holistic assessment and supporting a personalised care plan.
Working for our organisation
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
On a day-to-day basis the Serious Violence Practitioner is responsible for the clinical governance of the service and identifies areas for quality improvement and ensures adverse trends are identified, reported and managed. This will involve collecting data and being involved in shaping the projects future.
The Serious Violence Practitioner is a key player in delivering system change within the organisation including taking a lead on teaching around inclusion health and violence within the organisation. This expectation for this role would be on site with community outreach as needed.
In detail the service aims to:
· effectively engage the patient in all relevant services / support,
· maximise the benefit of the attendance / admission for the patient from a health and social care perspective,
· link the patient into all necessary health and social care and support pending discharge,
· advocate for the patient to receive assessment, treatment or services when this is required
· safeguard patients effectively
· ensure a safe and effective discharge to accommodation (where this is possible)
· stop the revolving door
· reduce re-offending
· reduce and prevent violence
· support those vulnerable of violence
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant qualification or comparable experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of working with vulnerable adults in a supporting, advisory or advocacy role
- Extensive experience in a relevant discipline
- Experience of successfully managing a fast-moving case load that involves triage and prioritisation
Desirable criteria
- Experience of joint working with healthcare services, or working in healthcare settings
- Experience of setting up, and maintaining relationships with a wide variety of relevant community partners
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Confident to problem solve and make independent decisions
- Team worker
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrated ability to work successfully with patients with personality disorder and complex trauma
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good knowledge of the Serious Violence Duty
- Good knowledge in inclusion health
- Good knowledge of how to work successfully with patients with communication barriers e.g. language, literacy, cognition, behaviour
Desirable criteria
- Leadership training
- Knowledge regarding the support options available for people experiencing violence and/or homelessness in the local community
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:
- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image
As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
Email: [email protected].
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Applicant requirements
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
- Gemma Casey
- Job title
- Deputy General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02087254857
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