Job overview

This post offers an exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual to expand on their existing safeguarding children and adult’s knowledge and skills whilst also being part of a progressive and supportive leadership team. If successful, you will work closely with the wider safeguarding team to innovatively drive the sexual safety, safeguarding and public protection agenda within the organisation and would become part of a ‘Think Family’ whole of life safeguarding service which provides advice and support to all disciplines across the trust.

The Trust is committed to ensuring it has robust systems in place for safeguarding adults and children and as such we are looking for a confident, passionate colleague with extensive experience in safeguarding and sexual safety to join our leadership team. 

Main duties of the job

To advise and support the Trust and workforce in designing and providing services for safeguarding children and adults consistent with national, regional and local legislation, policies and best practice, with a focus on sexual safety.

This post is key to maintaining effective working relationships across the Trust and  with multi-agency partners across the wide system

A significant proportion of time will be spent in clinical areas to deliver the role effectively within the Trust.

Working for our organisation

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment