Safeguarding Adult Staff Nurse with a Domestic Abuse Remit

Job overview

We are currently seeking a passionate and enthusiastic nurse that will work in the safeguarding adult speciality of the safeguarding team. The main remit is to oversee all referrals regarding domestic abuse and provide training, safeguarding supervision and advice for the diverse cases that are disclosed across the Trust. The ideal candidate will have acute hospital experience and a wish to learn more about domestic abuse and the safeguarding adult agenda.

The successful candidate will develop their clinical expertise relating to safeguarding for all ages with direct or non-direct types of abuse. You will gain experience within the role by covering all of our 5 sites. This covers many different specialties, including our trauma services, our specialist eye hospital, 2 accident and emergency departments, 3 urgent care centres, sexual health services plus many more.

You will oversee the domestic abuse email inbox, co-ordinate research for the MARAC (multi-agency risk assessment) conferences that we attend, maintain a spreadsheet and interlink with the wider safeguarding team that covers all specialities of safeguarding and also includes the Learning Disability and Autism team.

You will deliver safeguarding training to staff as well as provide safeguarding supervision. You will advocate for service users in a variety of safeguarding meetings and work collaboratively with other members of the multidisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

• To provide support for the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Adults (NNSA) in managing the safeguarding for adults who need protecting and the wider team in supporting people who are experiencing domestic abuse.
• To support the operational delivery of service working closely with the Named Nurse for Adult Safeguarding/wider safeguarding team.To attend relevant meetings in close liaison with the NNSA such as MARAC, discharge planning meetings, adult health professionals meetings etc.
• To work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary teams and partner agencies to ensure that adults who need protecting and those experiencing domestic abuse who come into contact with services at ICHT are safeguarded and their welfare is promoted by providing training.
• To report to the NNSA any issues of concern/obstacles highlighted in the daily operational workload and provide solutions if possible.To contribute to data collection and audit in relation to safeguarding adults and domestic abuse.
• To be able to confidently facilitate group safeguarding supervision in clinical settings to a variety of health professionals once trained.
• To confidently and constructively challenge practice within the multi-agency arena and within ICHT. Ensuring that the correct escalation process is used and support is sought from senior colleagues.To meet with service users when applicable.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.