Safeguarding Public Protection & Mental Capacity Practitioner

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The Safeguarding, Public Protection and Mental Capacity Team are expanding and are offering exciting opportunities for new safeguarding, public protection and mental capacity practitioners. This is a varied and dynamic role, within a supportive team, who have strong values and work towards a shared vision to support the organisation and ensure that the people who access our services’ safety is paramount and their rights promoted and upheld.
You will be supported to develop specialist knowledge of safeguarding, public protection and mental capacity knowledge and have the opportunity to share this knowledge through delivering training to the organisation, providing support and advice, developing understanding of clinical services and developing strong relationships with frontline teams. Representing information in multi agency meetings to advocate for people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and autism to promote understanding and develop systems that work together to safeguard adults, children and families.
We are welcoming applications from people with experience of working within mental health, learning disability and autism with experience of applying safeguarding within their role and a passion for promoting the importance of safety and working to empower people through safeguarding processes and the mental capacity act so that they can live safe and fulfilling lives.
Within this post you will be an integral member of the team, developing skills in delivering training, working to create a safeguarding hub that is responsive and provides an increasingly supportive function within the organisation and attending multi-agency meetings, particularly for high risk domestic abuse to work with the multi agency to support understanding of mental health and learning disability and autism and appropriate access to services with an aim of increasing safety and improving people’s lives.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
This post is suitable for someone educated to degree level in mental health/social care or another relevant subject or equivalent experience within the mental health field of working. With experience of working within mental health or learning disability services and applying safeguarding processes in practice.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

• Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
• Competitive annual leave allowance
• Car leasing scheme
• Childcare Vouchers
• NHS pension scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

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Please refer the Job description for details