Designated Nurse Safeguarding Adults

NHS Sussex ICB ambition is to create an inclusive working environment which reflects our commitment to celebrate and promote diversity for all groups. We are particularly under-represented in staff from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and disabled communities and actively encourage and welcome applications from these communities. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us.

We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us confidentially during the application process so that we can statistically monitor how fair and equitable our recruitment process is and how well we are reaching applicants from diverse communities and identify where we need to improve. This information is removed before shortlisting.

Main duties of the job

This is a senior clinical post, setting safeguarding strategy, and providing strategic leadership, expert clinical advice and consultancy to staff, senior managers and board members, ensuring that safeguarding adults standards and the statutory responsibilities of the ICB are met, supporting the Head of Department and wider team to meet the statutory duties under the Safeguarding Accountability and Assurance Framework (SAAF) and the Care Act (2014).

The post holder will be expected to have significant experience in supervising or advising staff in safeguarding adults. They will also develop robust and positive relationships between the different statutory and non-statutory stakeholders in the safeguarding process to lead on and drive continuous improvement in adult safeguarding.

About us

NHS Sussex ICB are committed to enabling team members to work in an agile and flexible way. We adopt a flexible first approach to working patterns. We empower our people to work where, when, and how they choose with minimum constraints to support their wellbeing to sustain good work life balance and to optimise performance and delivery.

We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Agile working is not just related to working from different locations or at different times. It is about effectively utilising technology to improve work practices and to work differently to increase our overall effectiveness to improve health outcomes for our population.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please contact the Recruitment Team at scw.peopleresource@nhs.net to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

NHS Sussex has committed to achieving Net Zero Carbon emissions by 2045. As a member of staff you will be encouraged and supported to implement new ways of working that will help us achieve that goal.

Job responsibilities

This is a senior clinical post, setting safeguarding strategy, and providing strategic leadership, expert clinical advice and consultancy to staff, senior managers and board members, ensuring that safeguarding adults standards and the statutory responsibilities of the ICB are met, supporting the Head of Department and wider team to meet the statutory duties under the Safeguarding Accountability and Assurance Framework (SAAF) and the Care Act (2014).

The post holder will take a professional and clinical lead on all aspects of health service contribution to safeguarding adults. To ensure NHS Sussex fulfils statutory duties and maintains compliance with relevant legislation and guidance (including areas which overlap with safeguarding children).

The post holder will be expected to have significant experience in supervising or advising staff in safeguarding adults. They will be a clinical expert and act as a vital source of advice and support and strategic leadership to commissioners (supporting procurements), the local authority, police, NHS England and health professionals in primary care and safeguarding leads in provider services, through the provision of supervision / coaching / mentoring to specified senior managers and clinicians.

The post holder will lead on specific safeguarding agendas, as part of portfolio working, ensuring the ICB and wider health economy fulfil all requirements under the SAAF and the intercollegiate documents, and to deliver projects, initiatives and services to time and in a cost effective way.

The post holder will be a member and advisor of the Safeguarding Adults Board across Sussex and serve, as appropriate, on the sub-committees and any additional task/finish groups or working groups of these.

The post holder will take a lead, as appropriate, on the completion of audits, assessments and submission of evidence to external auditors and inspection regarding safeguarding adults service provision. They will ensure that action plans are formulated to identify any gaps in service provision or quality of service provided.

The Designated Nurse will produce reports, briefings and updates as required by Head of Safeguarding, ICB committees, safeguarding boards, or NHSE. They will also develop and deliver specialist training and education in relation to safeguarding adults within, and across, the health services in Sussex.

The Designated Nurse Safeguarding Adults will be responsible for ensuring that NHS Sussex are compliant with statutory duties, including the application of the MCA (2005) and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards supplementary regulations (2007) across its commissioning activity. The designated nurse holding the lead for MCA within their portfolio will support the Heads of All-age Continuing Care across Sussex with the delivery of compliance.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Specialist knowledge across range of procedures underpinned by theory
• Professional clinical knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by diploma level specialist training, management qualification or equivalent
• Member of clinical professional body (RGN/RN/Midwife on NMC register)
• Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent.
• Must understand the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
• Should have an appreciation of the relationship between Department of Health, NHS England (national and regional), ICBs and provider organisations

Skills and Knowledge

• Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level.
• Clinically accountable for clinical service delivery
• Liaises with other agencies as appropriate
• Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts.
• Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others.
• Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
• Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
• Abilities for financial and staff management
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
• Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
• Interpreting national policy for implementation

Experience

• Experience of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time
• Experience of operating at a senior level

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.