Safeguarding adult specialist nurse

Job overview

The Safeguarding Adults Specialist Nurse plays a pivotal role in providing expert guidance on safeguarding matters, ensuring a robust response to adults with care and support needs who may be at risk of abuse or neglect.  This position supports Trust staff in managing complex cases, facilitating the delivery of safe and effective clinical services that prioritise the wellbeing and rights of vulnerable adults.  The Specialist Nurse liaises appropriately with external agencies to promote integrated care and timely interventions, contributes actively to safeguarding education programmes for staff, and fosters effective multi-agency collaboration to uphold best practice and legal requirements in safeguarding.  This post will involve travel to all OUH sites.

Main duties of the job

• Communicate effective information to patients/relatives/carers/ and all members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Develop and maintain specialist knowledge of nursing practice relevant to the clinical area.

• Contribute to the delivery of Safeguarding services as detailed in the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act including DOLS and other national and local legislation and policy.
• To support the development and implementation of safeguarding practice across the Trust ensuring effective multi-agency liaison, meeting the statutory requirements.
• Provide specialist advice, support and guidance to all Trust staff in relation to legislation, policy, multiagency procedures for safeguarding our patients at risk of abuse or neglect to embed the principles of safeguarding into every day professional practice who are at risk of abuse or neglect. ·
• Disseminate and communicate decisions and appropriate health information to relevant health professionals including the Named Nurse and/or Doctor where appropriate and sharing of best practice.
• Provide advice, support and guidance to staff in relation to all aspects of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 including Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards 2009.
• Conduct oneself in a professional manner and be a role model to others at all times commensurate with The Code (NMC 2015).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Support the senior safeguarding nurse to develop, implement and review safeguarding practice across the Trust and networks.
• Participate in multi-agency risk assessments to inform on case management, advising and challenging decisions when appropriate, provide timely information within the bounds of patient confidentiality and information sharing guidance.
• Be able to participate in specific working groups to achieve targets, objectives and audits in relation to safeguarding adults, taking a lead for identified areas where agreed.
• To demonstrate the ability to work independently and as part of the team and work across agency and organisational boundaries.
• To utilise the Trust IT systems, Oxford Health IT systems, MASH data base and Social Care IT systems in accordance with information sharing agreements.
• Maintain data collections that will provide timely and accurate data.
• Undertake audit when required in the Safeguarding team.
• To deliver safeguarding training to support the safeguarding competencies of staff.
• Develop good communication and liaison networks with all disciplines across a variety of statutory agencies including social care, police, and voluntary agencies.
• Maintain accurate and contemporaneous records of involvement of safeguarding in line with Trust policy and NMC guidance.
• Develop and maintain specialist knowledge of nursing practice relevant to the clinical area.
• Will work in partnership with the Children safeguarding team in support of the Think Family agenda.
• Undertake case reviews, develop chronologies, and participate in investigations to contribute to the implementation for solutions.