Senior Safeguarding Advisor

Job title:

Senior Safeguarding Advisor

Company

Somerset County Council

Job description

We’d also like to use analytics cookies so we can understand how you use our website and make improvements to your services.Accept additional cookies Reject additional cookiesSearchSearch Somerset CouncilPopular searchesJobSenior Safeguarding AdvisorClosing in 14 days (30 January, 2025)Salary £46,148 to £52,809 per annum
Department Public Health
Working pattern Full Time
Location Somerset
Closing date 30 January, 2025About the job

• The salary for this post is in line with Agenda for Change Band 7, which has a current salary range of £46,148 – £52,809.
• 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday.
• 30 days Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays.
• Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme, Subject to meeting certain criteria, or Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.

We’re working to improve the lives of the Children, Young People and their families in Somerset – and you’ll be a key part of that.Join our dynamic Public Health Nursing team as a Senior Safeguarding Advisor, where you will work closely with the Named Nurse, providing leadership and supervision. Key responsibilities include:

• Deputising for the Named Nurse when needed.
• Supporting the County Duty system alongside Team Managers and Practice Educators.
• Ensuring safeguarding outcomes for children and collaborating with key partners to address public health needs.
• Facilitating reflective learning environments and delivering training.
• Building professional relationships with agencies such as First Response, Lighthouse, and NHS safeguarding teams.
• Promoting the physical, mental, and emotional health and wellbeing of children and families (0-19 years).
• Contributing to multi-agency assessments and taking on a lead professional role where appropriate.
• Developing networks with key partners.

We offer ongoing support, training and guidance to help you be the best you can be. For this role, the following qualifications and experience are required:

• You must be an NMC registered Nurse or Midwife with a SCPHN qualification.
• Proven leadership experience.
• Experience in offering supervision.
• Good level of IT.
• A can-do attitude, solution focused and excellent communication skills to maximise networking abilities.

We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset.We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

• We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
• Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Staff discounts in gyms.
• Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
• Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
• A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
• My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more.

In Somerset we have continue to re-shape the way the Public Health Nurses work building on award winning innovative practices to keep delivering the Healthy Child Programme, holistically meeting family’s needs. This has been achieved by working collaboratively with our partner agencies and building community capacity.We are a team with a strong Public Health Focus committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our children and families in Somerset using good leadership skills and a sound knowledge base in safeguarding and child protection processes.We’re proud to be here for the people of Somerset. And that means everyone in Somerset. An important part of this is ensuring that we are as diverse and inclusive as the people and communities we serve.We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team. You can always contact the hiring manager for a chat if there’s anything you want to talk about before you apply.For an informal chat about the role, you can contact: / 07901906368 or Sophie Jones – Deputy Head PHN / 01823 355460.Interviews will take place on 24th/25th February 2025.If you have everything you need, just hit the apply button. We can’t wait to hear from you.This post requires a criminal background check via the Disclosure procedure.Related informationIs this page useful? Yes NoThank you for your feedbackIf you’d like to send us more details about your experience you can use our feedback form. This will be used to make improvements across the website.CloseThank you for your feedbackTo help us improve somerset.gov.uk, we would like to know more about your website visit today. It would really help if you could fill in our feedback form. It will take only 2 minutes.CloseThank you for your feedbackGet in touchpage for more information and advice on how to get in touch with one of our support teams

Expected salary

£46148 – 52809 per year

Location

Somerset

Job date

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 07:34:15 GMT

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