Adult Safeguarding Practitioner - Safeguarding

We are recruiting for an Adult Safeguarding Practitioner who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

As an Adult Safeguarding Practitioner, you will offer specialised guidance and assistance regarding adult safeguarding to frontline personnel operating within acute Trust environments.

To assist the Lead nurse for adult safeguarding in the management of caseloads and to support staff in clinical areas to provide care which is fully compliant with both the mental capacity act (2005) and the care act (2014).

You are required to work closely with the adult and children's safeguarding team and the Trust's safeguarding partner agencies including HSAB members. Contribute to safeguarding adult's reviews, domestic homicide reviews and any other interagency review/inquiry as required, ensuring the Trust's internal adult safeguarding processes are coordinated with these external review processes.

You will promote best practice in ensuring that the welfare of adults at risk and the choices, wishes, and feelings of adults underpin safeguarding interventions (Making safeguarding personal).

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

1. To assist the Named nurse for adult safeguarding by implementing and integrating both national and local safeguarding initiatives and priorities into practice.
2. To collaborate with all divisions to ensure the adult safeguarding service operates efficiently and effectively, which includes offering direct advice and support to individual practitioners and operational teams concerning the safeguarding of vulnerable adults.
3. To oversee the execution of the adult safeguarding team's training strategy, while monitoring and assisting divisions to enhance compliance with safeguarding training, and to work in conjunction with colleagues in safeguarding children to incorporate the Think Family frameworks.
4. The successful candidate is expected to maintain a visible presence within ENHT services as part of their role in promoting safeguarding knowledge and practices.
5. To engage with various staff groups internally through multiple methods to reinforce the Safeguarding Adults agenda, including facilitating Link Practitioners forums.
6. To deliver in-person safeguarding support and supervision to staff in clinical settings dealing with high-risk safeguarding cases.
7. To ensure quality control and documentation of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLs) applications with relevant supervisory bodies.
8. To assist clinical areas in evaluating patients' mental capacity in cases where the patients' cognitive conditions are complex.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work-life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached applicant pack which includes detailed Job description person specifications.

Person Specification

Previous Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• To have experience at Band 6 or equivalent within a clinical speciality.
• To have experience of implementing service improvement initiatives to enhance service user experience.
• To have had responsibility for line managing staff. Wide range of knowledge relating to adult safeguarding and the clinical application of the mental capacity act 2005 and the care act 2014.
• Good understanding of professional nursing issues.

Desirable

• To be able to statistically analyse performance and articulate performance concerns whilst assisting in the development of improvement plans.

Skills

Essential

• Good communication and listening skills.
• Leadership skills.
• Ability to respond positively to change.
• Ability to support patients who have experienced abuse with compassion and empathy.
• To be able to manage your own workload effectively.
• To be IT literate especially on the use of Microsoft office programs.
• Evidence of involvement in audit and change processes related to audit.
• To have good presentation skills and be involved in the preparation of reports.

Qualifications / Training

Essential

• Be a registered nurse on part 1 or part 12 of the NMC register.
• Be educated to degree level.
• Have completed a practice assessors course.

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Corey's Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG14AB

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361-6846049-A