Senior Adults Safeguarding Practitioner

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the 'Supporting Documents' heading. So that you're even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you'll need to take time to read the 'Candidate Essentials Guide' that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how 'we care for you as you care for others'. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you'll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in your application

Here at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, we're proud to be ALL HERE FOR YOU-for our patients, our communities, and each other.

As part of our commitment to fairness, transparency, and personal integrity, we ask all applicants to ensure that their job applications reflect their own experiences, skills, and motivations. While AI tools can support spelling, grammar, or formatting, we expect that the content of your application-especially personal statements and responses to role-specific questions-is written by you. This helps us get to know the real you and ensures that our recruitment process remains equitable and meaningful for everyone.

Thank you for helping us uphold the values that make our Trust a place where people belong, grow, and thrive. We look forward to receiving your application.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, please contact the manager named below.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Current professional NMC/SW England/HCPC registration.
• Qualified Nurse, Social Worker, physiotherapist or occupational Therapist
• Over 2 years work experience and knowledge within safeguarding.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development and training undertaken in respect of safeguarding to minimum Level 3 (as per Intercollegiate Document)
• Experience of working within healthcare/the NHS

Desirable criteria

• Line management experience
• Teaching qualification or demonstrate experience and knowledge in the development and delivery of training to key professionals
• Qualified Best Interest Assessor

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

• Specialist knowledge of adult safeguarding practice and legislation
• Knowledge of local and national policies relating to safeguarding adults at risk, relevant professional and NHS policy initiatives.
• Experience of implementing and coordinating safeguarding of adults at risk procedures within a multidisciplinary team.
• Knowledge of legislation and experience of working with the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
• Experience in a senior clinical position
• Evidence of team working
• Evidence of developing/providing education programmes for the multi - disciplinary team
• Experience of multi -agency working.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of research activities
• Experience of attending strategy meetings
• Evidence of working within both acute and community healthcare settings.
• Experience and knowledge of multidisciplinary audit.
• Experience of delivering safeguarding supervision
• Experience of successfully managing the implementation of change.
• Evidence of professional leadership, leading to innovation in practice

Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent communication skills and ability to provide written and verbal reports for safeguarding adult at risk proceedings.
• Presentation skills.
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to work under pressure, to prioritise, work flexibly and to tight deadlines.
• The ability to practise as an expert practitioner in relation to safeguarding adult at risk provision.
• Effective organizational skills.
• Facilitation skills
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• IT/word processing /database skills.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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

• JD PS (PDF, 367.9KB)
• FR (PDF, 920.2KB)
• Candidate Essential Guide Non Medical (PDF, 1.3MB)