Safeguarding Practitioner - Child

Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this. 

The single corporate service is delivered across both organisations.  You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.

This vacancy is open to employees of Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust only.

NHS Band 6 salary: £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata per annum

                                  actual salary £31,967 - £38,493 per annum

Hours per week: part time 30

Contract type: Temporary for 12 months

This is an opportunity to join the Safeguarding Service, place based on the Isle of Wight, for a years fixed term contract or a secondment to cover Maternity Leave. 

• The Post holder is required to hold a relevant qualification i.e., Registered Nurse, Social Work Qualification, Allied health Professional Qualification with relevant experience of adults / child / maternity safeguarding.
• Provide operational safeguarding support to all Trust services, and inform Safeguarding All Age Specialist Practitioner and Named Nurse / Professional Lead for Safeguarding of current concerns/trends expressed by frontline staff.
• To assist the Safeguarding Service in the delivery of safeguarding training
• To support the development and implementation of safeguarding practice across the Trust.
• To ensure effective multi agency liaison, meeting the statutory requirements by providing support and advice to all area’s of the Trust.
• To support the trust Safeguarding Service in performing their safeguarding duties and responsibilities through advice to operational services, escalation of concerns to/from other agencies and effective feedback and support from safeguarding meetings and forums.
• To assist in audit and reporting of safeguarding processes, actions, and outcomes across the Trust.
• To assist the Safeguarding Specialist Practitioner / Named Nurse / Professional for Safeguarding to embed a Family Approach towards safeguarding across the trust.
• To maintain and improve the understanding of what constitutes a safeguarding referral and ensure the quality of safeguarding referrals
• To work in collaboratively with Divisions supporting the Section 42 enquiry process and ensuring learning is embedded within operational practice.

For full job details, please refer to enclosed Job description.

Essential

• Registered Nurse
• Qualification in Social Work
• Allied health professional Qualification i.e., Speech and Language Therapy, Specialist Dentistry, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy
• Evidence of ongoing professional development 

Desirable

• Teaching and assessment qualification.

Experience

• Post registration experience of safeguarding adults

Skills and Knowledge

• Knowledge of national and local safeguarding adult polices guidelines and recommendations
• Knowledge of relevant legislation relating to safeguarding adults
• Demonstrates knowledge of abuse and neglect
• Knowledge of the Local Authority Multi-Agency Safeguarding Adult Hub (MASH) agenda
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills
• Good IT skills, email, word and excel
• Presentation skills
• Ability to prioritise, work flexibly and to tight deadlines
• Completion of audits, reports, and chronologies
• Non-judgemental and self-motivated

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs. 

For more information, please see our People and OD Strategy 2026