Safeguarding Adults Lead Nurse or Professional

Safeguarding Adults Lead Nurse or Professional

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

The post holder will provide leadership, expert safeguarding advice and management support. The post-holder will work with the Head of Safeguarding Adults and the wider safeguarding team to continually improve and develop safeguarding adults services, aligning with the Trust's strategic aims and the local and national safeguarding agenda.

Providing effective communication, networking and liaison, establishing and maintaining good working relationships within health services and with other agencies to ensure that information relating to adult protection and safeguarding is up to date and embedded in practice.

The successful candidate will undertake relevant projects as required. The post holder will identify areas for service improvement through the use of a working knowledge of improvement methodologies. The post-holder will lead service development aimed at improving quality including patient and carer experience of specialist care, concentrating on delivering a holistic and person-centred approach and promotion of good professional practice.

The post holder will work in collaboration with the Head of safeguarding adults on risk management, patient safety and clinical governance issues within the context of safeguarding adults. The post holder will foster a culture of prevention, early and accurate identification and management of safeguarding concerns for the organisation.

Main duties of the job

To provide professional leadership, consultancy, advice, risk assessment and expert adult protection practice, to support practitioners on actions to be taken in order to safeguard an adult at risk. This will involve the dissemination of the specialist skills and knowledge to others. To provide leadership to the safeguarding adults service, ensuring a culture which focuses on responsiveness, multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working, and high standards of performance and quality.

Exercise a high degree of autonomy to make critical decisions and judgements and deliver advanced clinical skills to the case management of vulnerable adults with complex safeguarding needs. Interpret all of the available information to make justifiable assessments when making a differential safeguarding diagnosis. Provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information where a wide range of skills including persuasion, motivation, negotiation, empathy and reassurance are required e.g. modernising services and implementing change.

About us

The Trust has a dedicated Safeguarding Adults team which acts on behalf of the Chief Nurse in delivering and fulfilling the legislative requirements and risk management standards in relation to safeguarding adults. This includes ensuring that structures, systems, policies and processes are in place so that safeguarding activity is effectively coordinated across the Trust. The safeguarding adults team consists of safeguarding leads, safeguarding adults clinical nurse specialists, Dementia and Delirium clinical nurse specialists, learning disability clinical nurse specialist, trainers and an administrator. A key role of the team is to provide expert advice and guidance to staff in all matters relating to the safeguarding of adults and supporting patients with dementia or a learning disability and their carers and to ensure that we develop a confident and competent workforce that is able to recognise and appropriately respond to any safeguarding concerns.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will provide leadership, expert safeguarding advice and management support. The post-holder will work with the Head of Safeguarding Adults and the wider safeguarding team to continually improve and develop safeguarding adults services, aligning with the Trust's strategic aims and the local and national safeguarding agenda.

Providing effective communication, networking and liaison, establishing and maintaining good working relationships within health services and with other agencies to ensure that information relating to adult protection and safeguarding is up to date and embedded in practice.

The successful candidate will undertake relevant projects as required. The post holder will identify areas for service improvement through the use of a working knowledge of improvement methodologies. The post-holder will lead service development aimed at improving quality including patient and carer experience of specialist care, concentrating on delivering a holistic and person-centred approach and promotion of good professional practice.

The post holder will work in collaboration with the Head of safeguarding adults on risk management, patient safety and clinical governance issues within the context of safeguarding adults. The post holder will foster a culture of prevention, early and accurate identification and management of safeguarding concerns for the organisation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• RN Registered Nurse, Registered Mental Health Nurse, Registered Social Worker or Allied Health Professional
• Evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Have completed specific post-registration training in safeguarding adults prior to commencement in the post

Experience

• Broad clinical experience in safeguarding adults relevant to the post including experience in an acute hospital setting.
• Proven management & leadership roles.
• Experience of managing staff and teams.
• Community experience
• Experience of working across an organisation

Skills and Knowledge

• Produce and present high-quality written reports and presentations skills.
• Organisational and planning skills for own workload and that of others in a fast paced and unpredictable environment.
• In depth knowledge of legislation, guidance, systems and processes related to all aspects of safeguarding.
• Ability to influence and negotiate with colleagues to achieve change both internally and nationally.
• Ability to build and lead an effective integrated team.

Additional Information

• Critically reflective
• A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled with a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority.
• Excellent and acknowledged role model.

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.