Safeguarding Adult Practitioner

The Safeguarding Specialist role is an exciting opportunity to develop your professional practice and leadership skills.

This role will support the adults safeguarding agenda, but the ethos of our Safeguarding Team is that all specialists cross-cover in the absence of colleagues, so you should expect to develop a working knowledge of other safeguarding sub-specialities.

Responsibilities

• To be a clinician for safeguarding in the Trust working in collaboration with the safeguarding team.
• Provide visible, accessible clinical safeguarding support in all areas of the Trust where adults are patients.
• Support the team in the provision of data to clinical divisions on a monthly basis to guide their clinical practice and inform management decisions.
• Provide Trust-wide advice and consultation on all aspects of safeguarding including Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
• Coordinate with other safeguarding specialists.
• Produce chronologies for all Serious Adult Reviews, Multi-Agency Reviews, and serious incidents and co-produce chronologies for Domestic Homicide Reviews with the Safeguarding Specialist in Domestic Abuse.
• Conduct oneself in a professional manner and be a role model to less experienced/non-registered and new staff at all times.

About The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient, and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford, and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt, and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise To Our Patients As Identified By Our 3 Values Which Will Contribute To Improving Our Patient Experiences:

• Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts.
• Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both.
• Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills, and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care.

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence, and in return, we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

Contact Information

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Sarah Cowley
Job title: Head of Safeguarding and Vulnerable People
Email address: sarah.cowley3@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01279 952849