Safeguarding Public Protection & Mental Capacity Practitioner

Job summary

Join the Trust Safeguarding Hub and build specialist expertise within a respected, supportive team. We welcome professionally registered practitioners with mental health experience who are passionate about safeguarding, human rights and improving outcomes for vulnerable people. Applications are invited at Band 6 or 7, with appointment based on knowledge, skills and experience against the person specification.

You will provide specialist advice and support across safeguarding, public protection and mental capacity through the Trust Safeguarding Hub, and contribute to MARAC. Depending on service need and experience, there may also be opportunities to contribute to other safeguarding processes, reviews and complex case discussions.

This secondment offers varied experience with support from experienced specialists. You will strengthen your skills in complex casework, partnership working, leadership and service improvement, making this an excellent opportunity to advance your career in safeguarding, mental health or wider healthcare leadership.

Please state whether you wish to be considered for Band 6 or 7. Applicants will be assessed against the requirements of the band applied for. The successful candidate will be appointed to and work within the responsibilities of the band offered.

You must have your current manager's agreement before applying to be released for the full 12-month secondment.

Main duties of the job

You will work within the Trust Safeguarding Hub, providing specialist advice and support across all safeguarding, public protection and mental capacity domains. You will also contribute to MAEAC, supporting effective information sharing, risk management, professional challenge and sound decision-making.

Depending on service need and experience, there may be opportunities to contribute to complex case discussions, safeguarding processes, reviews, multi-agency meetings, supervision, incident learning, policy development, audit and service improvement.

The role offers scope to develop specialist knowledge, influence practice across the Trust and strengthen skills in quality improvement, governance and evidence-based practice. Equality, diversity, inclusion, human rights, dignity and the voice of the service users will remain central to safeguarding practice.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

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


• NHS pension scheme


• Free eye tests


• Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme


• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional Registration as Nurse, Mental health Nurse, OT, Social worker or Psychologist


• Educated to degree level in mental health/social care


• Safeguarding Children Level 3


• Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Level 3


• Mental Capacity Act Training Level 3


• Domestic abuse training

Desirable

• Supervision Training or Qualification


• Presentation and training qualification


• Leadership Training or Qualification

Experience

Essential

• Professional registration as above with evidence and understanding of working within mental health settings


• Safeguarding adults at risk, children, MAPP and domestic abuse in clinical practice


• Use of MCA (2005) including Deprivation of Liberty in clinical practice


• Working in an advisory capacity to others


• Liaising and networking with other agencies and internal services


• Delivering information to small groups


• Knowledge of Prevent and the risk of radicalisation
  
• Working independently and as part of a team

Desirable

• Supervision of other clinicians or staff on a group or individual basis


• Leadership experience


• Report writing - for example Root Cause Analysis, MHA or court reports


• Developing and/or delivering training programmes


• Specialist knowledge/experience around domestic abuse, safeguarding adults/children and/or public protection


• Specialist knowledge around the Mental Capacity Act and DoLS

Skills

Essential

• Analytical skills


• A desire to uphold people's Human Rights and to ensure they live free from abuse


• Communication skills in relation to escalating concerns with other agencies and respectful challenge


• Care, compassion, competence, communication, commitment and above all courage to safeguard the public and protect individuals and our communities


• Effective time management


• Ability to prioritise competing objectives and workload

Desirable

• Sharing of proportionate information that is complex and concerns risk


• Complex case management


• Awareness of the impact of safeguarding and the need to support clinical staff who are dealing with complex and at times emotionally challenging cases

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Contact: Kayleigh Cheltenham, Deputy Head of Safeguarding
Email:
Phone:

Details

Date posted: 14 October 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 6

Salary: £39,959 to £56,515 a year per annum

Contract: Secondment

Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number: -COR-B

Job location: Welton House, Lime Kiln Way, Lincoln, LN2 4WH, United Kingdom

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