Safeguarding Adults Manager
Job Summary
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
19/04/2018
Advert End Date:
Closed for applications on 03/05/2018 22:59
Salary:
£40,858 - £44,697 per annum
Hours per week:
37 hours per week
Job Category:
Social Care - Adult Service
Employment Location:
Newcastle upon Tyne
Further Information
Safeguarding Adults Unit
37 hours per week
This is an exciting and challenging time for those professionals who are interested in the field of Adult Safeguarding and Deprivation of Liberty. The Safeguarding Adults Unit incorporates all aspects of safeguarding activity including organisational/paid worker and complex abuse cases and we are in the process of establishing an adult Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub. The Safeguarding Adults Managers also provide safeguarding advice to professionals both inside and outside Newcastle City Council, they also chair Safeguarding Adults Strategy and Protection Plan meetings. The Safeguarding Adults Unit also manages the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards process.
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, highly motivated Safeguarding Adults Manager who is interested in joining out well-established and experienced Safeguarding Adults team.
The ideal candidate must be a progressed social worker with a minimum of 3 years’ post qualifying experience and be willing and able to manage a complex and variable workload in a busy environment, where priorities are constantly changing. You must be trained, or be willing to be trained, as a Best Interest Assessor under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
You will need an understanding of Safeguarding Adult issues including:
• Knowledge of Safeguarding Adults policy and procedures;
• Knowledge of the Deprivation of Liberty (DoLS) policy and procedures;
• Knowledge and experience of risk assessment/risk management;
• Ability to develop policy and procedures in relation to the Mental Capacity Act, DoLS safeguards and Safeguarding Adults;
• Ability to chair multi-agency Safeguarding Adults meetings;
• Knowledge of the safeguarding across the life course, including transition between childhood to adulthood.
We are committed to protecting and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is working in regulated activity. If you are successful we will undertake additional recruitment checks which will include a check to see if you have had any criminal convictions, a check of police information and we will check the relevant barred list(s). It is a criminal offence for a barred individual to apply for a job in regulated activity.
For an informal discussion, please contact Linda Gray, Service Manager on 0191 2788116.
This is a re-advertisement, previous applicants need not re-apply.
Apply online at www.northeastjobs.org.uk.
As this post involves working with children, vulnerable adults or dealing with sensitive information, written references will be taken up and made available to interviewers before the final selection stage; even if you indicate otherwise.
Please note
This job is closed for applications.