You will be responsible for immediate leadership of the safeguarding team and service across Colchester Hospital and community services.
This will involve ensuring that the team maintains oversight of safeguarding practice across all patient groups, staff education and awareness of safeguarding concerns within the Trust. You will support and empower the safeguarding team to deliver a service which ensures high quality safeguarding responses.
Reporting directly to the Senior Lead for Safeguarding and Complex Health to ensure that practice within Colchester hospital and community services informs the overall understanding of ESNEFT wide needs in relation to safeguarding. You will work alongside their counterpart, the Head of Safeguarding families in Ipswich to ensure consistency across the whole service.
You will provide direct supervision to the named professionals within the team and will be responsible for building and maintaining professional relationships with leaders in ESNEFT and within partner organisations. You will support the Safeguarding Team to work in a way which empowers staff across services to undertake their roles and responsibilities in relation to Safeguarding.
These include:
Provide leadership for staff working within Colchester Hospital and Community Safeguarding services including line management, appraisals and performance management.
Work closely with the Senior Lead for Safeguarding and Complex Health to identify service improvements and strategic actions to maintain good safeguarding practice and response across the Trust.
Demonstrate leadership skills which supports open and constructive discussions across divisions in the interest of meeting safeguarding requirements.
To build and maintain strong professional relationships with external safeguarding leads so as to ensure ESNEFT contributes to and participates in system wide developments and learning.
Ensure policies and protocols are reflective of legal frameworks and regulation requirements.
Support divisions to undertake investigations as required in line with safeguarding protocols.
Monitor and report on safeguarding performance quarterly and through the Trust annual safeguarding report.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.