Safeguarding Adults Lead Nurse (or Professional)

Job overview

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.

The post holder will act as an exemplary senior clinical role model to the senior nursing team, leading and supporting growth, development and extended roles for the safeguarding adults team to allow collaborative working across the service. Maintain a high clinical presence and visibility within the service areas.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Work with the Head of Safeguarding Adults and wider safeguarding team to identify areas for service improvement using a sound knowledge of service improvement methodology.

Ensure that the safeguarding perspective is considered within all service improvement programmes – particularly in relation to quality and safety, patient and parent experience and engagement.

Communicate with a wide range of stakeholders at Trust, local and national levels including patients and carers, clinicians, senior management representing the safeguarding adults agenda for the organisation.

Support the implementation of systems, control processes and risk management arrangements to support monitoring of compliance with safeguarding standards, clinical governance standards, other Trust-wide policies and best practice requirements.

Lead a culture of professional accountability and responsibility to patients, ensuring that staff learn from complaints, near misses, critical incidents and all forms of patient feedback. Support processes of risk incident investigation, root cause, trend and feedback analysis.

Ensure that dynamic continuing professional development, training and education opportunities are in place to develop a skilled and competent workforce within the available resources. To identify the training needs of staff working with adults within the Trust and prepare, together with the safeguarding trainer a training programme to address these.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.