1. Professional safeguarding responsibilities
- Understanding statutory, legal, professional and employment safeguarding responsibilities and duties, including the obligation to act when there is a safeguarding concern
- Preventing abuse and neglect as far as possible through timely action and intervention
- Accounting for the influence of personal beliefs, experience and attitudes
- Maintaining individual wellbeing
- Supporting colleague wellbeing
2. Identification of abuse and neglect
- Recognising indicators and signs of all types of abuse and neglect in children and adults
- Identifying children and adults who may be more vulnerable to abuse and neglect
- Applying principles of consent, confidentiality and capacity in relation to safeguarding
- Mitigating barriers to healthcare faced by victims and survivors of abuse
- Understanding the lifelong impact of abuse
- Learning from those with lived experience of abuse
- Practicing in a trauma informed way
- Applying relevant legislation
- Being vigilant and addressing organisational / institutional abuse / neglect
Responding to abuse and neglect
- Acting when there is a safeguarding concern
- Talking to children, adults, families, parents and carers about abuse
- Following local referral processes for child and adult safeguarding
- Contributing to the lifelong holistic care needed by victims and survivors of abuse
- Seeking advice and guidance and escalating concerns when necessary
- Promptly acting on, and responding appropriately to, any concerns or allegations about persons in a position of trust
4. Documenting safeguarding concerns and information
- Documenting safeguarding concerns accurately and safely in the patient record
- Managing safeguarding documents in line with best practice in information governance and data protection
- Proactively addressing safeguarding challenges of patient online access including coercion to access records
5. Information sharing and multiagency working
- Participating in multi-agency and multi-disciplinary working
- Sharing information appropriately and proactively in a safeguarding context
- Contributing to safeguarding reviews
- Learning from safeguarding serious case reviews (local and national)