Job responsibilities
1. JOB DETAILS
Job Title: Safeguarding Adults Advisor
Reports to: Lead Professional Safeguarding Adult
Accountable to: Head of Service Safeguarding
Band: 6
Unit/Department: Safeguarding Team
Directorate: Corporate Nursing
Location Trust Headquarters St James University
Hospital
AfC Job No: 2322e
2. JOB PURPOSE
The
post supports the operational delivery of adult safeguarding services, including the general raising of awareness
of adult safeguarding practice throughout childrens and adult services.
The
post holder will provide the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust (LTHT) workforce
with the safeguarding skills and knowledge necessary to promote safe and
effective practice, to offer preventative support and advice to mitigate for
safeguarding incidents, and to respond when harm or abuse is thought to have
occurred.
They
will work with the Lead Professional Safeguarding Adults within a team of
Specialist Practitioner (Adult) advisors to lead the development of adult
safeguarding practice, reflecting the Clinical Service Unit (CSU), Corporate
Nursing and Safeguarding business plans.
The
post holder will provide a crucial link between staff at ward level and the
Safeguarding team, providing safeguarding clinical leadership and role model
behaviours to staff in the delivery of high quality safe care. Where
identified, leading on the sharing of lessons learned post safeguarding incident.
The
post holder will work within the guidance of the Leeds Safeguarding Adult
Board and promote city wide policy and guidance within the Trust.
The
post holder will provide links with outside agencies and work alongside
safeguarding colleagues across the NHS health economy, local and regional,
and the Local Authority.
The
post holder will be available on a daily (Monday to Friday) basis, for advice
and support across the Trust for those staff contacting the service.
3. JOB DIMENSIONS
The post holder will work with the
safeguarding team to raise awareness within LTHT workforce of essential adult
safeguarding practice.
Enable the development of an
environment which encourages and empowers LTHT staff members to be effective
and proactive in the field of adult safeguarding.
Act as key supporting investigators
following Section 42 requests for safeguarding cases; to liaise with
CSU/wards to support the investigation and review process.
Contribute to interagency working
to promote learning and develop city wide safeguarding initiatives.
The post holder will be required to
facilitate and deliver training as part of their role, providing mandatory
training and specialist training alongside safeguarding colleagues.
4. ORGANISATIONAL CHART
5. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
REQUIRED
Qualifications
Registered Professional
Qualification, Nurse (Part 1 of the NMC register), Allied Health Professional
(AHP), Equivalent registered professional qualification
Teaching and Assessing qualification
or experience
Knowledge of the safeguarding adult
and Think family agenda.
Experience
Demonstrable experience of working
within a safeguarding role or
transferable equivalent experience
Clinical audit and standard setting
Service development and or change
management
Experience of interagency working
in relation to Adult safeguarding
Experience of managing
investigations, including root cause analysis and complaints
Appreciation of the role that
supervision and debriefs plays in supporting staff and learning from
incidents
Skills
Ability to provide clear verbal and
written advice
Care planning and assessment skills
Training and presentation skills
IT skills
Ability to, or be prepared to,
analyse and appraise clinical and non-clinical information to include within
reports
Ability to, or be prepared to,
write reports and responses for safeguarding concerns in line with statutory
documentation
The ability to transfer specialist
knowledge from clinical practice to the promotion of safeguarding across the
Trust
Knowledge of current issues in
health and social care
Works to high standards of
professional practice
Development and implementation of
Policies and Procedures
Ability to work within a
multi-disciplinary setting and awareness of working across disciplines
Extensive knowledge of current
national and local issues in relation to child and adult safeguarding
The ability to prioritise and
manage own defined caseload
Ability to engage with patients,
promoting inclusion and patient involvement in the safeguarding process
Knowledge and awareness of the NHS
patient safety agenda
Knowledge and awareness of clinical
governance and reporting processes
Personal
Attributes
Excellent interpersonal skills
Self-motivated
Self-aware
Ability to see opportunity for
change
Able to lead and influence
Assertiveness
Flexibility and adaptable to safeguarding team
circumstances and service need, and continued service development
Ability to work with distressing
events and provide positive emotional support to others dealing with
Safeguarding incidents
6. CORE BEHAVIOURS AND SKILLS
High level of communication skills
- ability to communicate to wide range of professionals and patient groups,
employing verbal, online (virtual) and written mediums
Teaching skills
Assessment skills
Organisational skills
Time management skills
Change management skills
Understanding of research based
practice
Commitment to team working
Ability to work with conflict
resolution and manage differences in approach/opinion whilst retaining
respect for all
Work alongside patients to identify
patient wishes
Managing stress
Uses initiative and is self-led
Ability to act professionally at
all times
7. CORE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Understanding of the local and
national care agenda
Understanding of relevant National
Service Frameworks, NHS England drivers/initiatives
Awareness of Leeds Teaching
Hospitals NHS Trust guidelines and policies
Professional knowledge
Knowledge of adult safeguarding
policies, procedures and good practice guidelines
Knowledge of the Mental Capacity
and Mental Health Acts
Experience of adult safeguarding
work or equivalent
8. PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF
RESPONSIBILITY
Assess, plan, implement and
evaluate care and interventions using evidence based and current adult
safeguarding knowledge
Support CSU leads to investigate
safeguarding concerns
Be prepared to lead on
investigating safeguarding concerns
Ensure the wishes of patients are
recorded and at the centre of the safeguarding response.
Contribute to individualised care
plans for service users at risk of harm
Contribute to care plans for
patients that present a risk to other service users
Alongside Safeguarding colleagues
set, monitor and seek to continuously improve standards in quality of adult
safeguarding advice and intervention.
Maintain a safe working
environment, providing guidance in cases to minimise risk and promote safety
planning
Supervise and maintain accurate
records using the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trusts documentation
Provide staff with necessary
knowledge and skills to ensure the safe and appropriate management of adults
identified as being at risk of being abused or have been abused.
Promote evidence based practice
Be prepared to offer challenge and
encourage further examination of evidence
Promote professional curiosity and
patient centred care
Support patients, their families
and or carers to prevent harm and increase independence
Contributes to the development and implementation of policy and practice guidelines in line with
the Leeds Adult Safeguarding Board policy and procedure
Acts in accordance with the Nursing
and Midwifery Code of Conduct/ Associated profession registration
organisation Professional codes of practice
Liaise with community services and
external services (statutory and third sector) to ensure seamless provision
of care delivery where safeguarding has been highlighted
Education
and Training
Participate and provide training
and education both mandatory and specialist provision
Provide training opportunities of
current national, regional and local safeguarding agendas
Be part of a team developing the
Trust wide training needs analysis and reviewing training need across
specific Trust CSUs
Actively participate in the
development of own personal development plan and appraisal
Keep up to date with developments
and advances within the speciality
Work with safeguarding colleagues across
the Health Economy and city-wide Safeguarding agencies to promote city wide
learning
