South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust Hiring for Safeguarding Education Specialist Job at Exeter, England , UK Full Time

The post-holder will play in integral part within the Trust’s Safeguarding Team, fulfilling the role of the subject matter expert for safeguarding education. The post-holder will analyse training needs, design new training material, and will be responsible for the quality assurance of material produced by external providers. The post-holder will deliver bespoke safeguarding training to cohorts of staff with specialist roles within the Trust including doctors, specialist paramedics, and mental health professionals. The post-holder will also mentor and quality-assure other professionals to deliver safeguarding training to wider groups of staff. The post-holder will also be the lead for the delivery of mental capacity training.

To maintain competency in safeguarding practice, the post-holder will also undertake some functions of a Named Professional for Safeguarding working in a matrix arrangement within the Trust’s Safeguarding Team.

• To assist the Head of Safeguarding and the Head of Education with specialist expert advice on the policy for, strategy for, design of, and delivery of safeguarding education and safeguarding supervision for all staff and volunteers working for the Trust.
• To design and deliver generic and specialist safeguarding training courses for staff and volunteers working for the Trust.
• To represent the Trust at local, regional, and national education forums both within the ambulance sector and within the wider health and social care sector.
• To undertake the duties of a Named Professional for Safeguarding when required including attending multi-agency risk assessment meetings, undertaking statutory safeguarding reviews, triaging safeguarding referrals generated by staff, undertaking safeguarding audits, sharing safeguarding information with external partners, providing safeguarding advice to operational staff, and any other function undertaken by the Trust’s Named Professionals. It is envisaged that the Safeguarding Education Specialist will spend around 25% of their time undertaking the duties of a Named Professional in order to maintain competence and expert knowledge of safeguarding practice in the ambulance sector.
• To undertake the role of on-call safeguarding expert advisor.

At South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) we have a culture where everyone is valued for being themselves. Our aim is to work together to promote the most inclusive environment possible, which attracts people from the widest range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work that we do together, for the benefit of all of our employees, our patients and the communities we serve. We offer flexible working opportunities, inclusive policies and a range of feedback mechanisms to support individuals and to enable a positive, welcoming environment where our people and their careers can thrive in.

We employ over 5,000 employees mainly clinical, operational and emergency response staff as well as supporting roles. We also employ Doctors and volunteers which include community first responders and fire co-responders.

We take all the steps needed to provide the most compassionate patient care possible whilst also providing an enjoyable and safe place to work. We actively promote a positive set of behaviours as being key to our performance both individually and collectively. Our recruitment, selection and screening processes are designed to uphold these standards and we invite all our candidates to actively share with us through these processes how they will bring these behaviours to life.

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For further information about this role please see attached the job description and person specification attached.