Job summary
Take that next and best step in your nursing career and join us in this unique and rewarding opportunity as our Named Nurse - Safeguarding Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism. Reporting to our Lead Nurse Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups, you'll act as an expert advisory across both Acute and Community services in relation to safeguarding mental health, learning disability and autism. What's more, you'll take a lead role to ensure MFT engages its multi-agency, health, and voluntary sector partners to provide robust services that are both coordinated and collaborative in relation to safeguarding mental health, learning disability and autism. And, as we've implemented our innovative electronic patient record, you'll join us at an exciting time, as we continually strive to provide the best care possible for our patients and their families.
With experience of managing the implementation of change and as an inspirational and enthusiastic leader, you'll facilitate the delivery of high-quality safeguarding services focused on mental health, learning disability and autism across the Trust to an agreed and auditable quality standard to comply with all national and local legislation and guidance across both Community and Acute health care settings.
So, let's tell you more about how this could be the right nursing career opportunity for you, if you've the right skills, knowledge and experience and values to match ours.
Main duties of the job
- As a registered Mental Health Nurse with significant relevant psychiatric experience post registration, you'll manage and support the safeguarding, learning disability, autism, and mental health teams, working closely with clinical staff to ensure that decision making is informed by expert safeguarding advice.
- Working alongside the Lead Nurse Safeguarding, and with experience of implementing and coordinating safeguarding procedures within a multidisciplinary team, you'll ensure there is a robust training strategy and training programme in place to meet all educational/training requirements across both Acute and Community settings.
- As an excellent communicator with the ability to provide accurate written and verbal reports, you'll contribute to the Trusts Safeguarding Governance Groups and sub-groups and develop or make changes to safeguarding policies, mental health, learning disability and Mental Capacity Act procedures, work plans and reports.
- You'll act as a link between the Trust and partner mental Health Trusts to ensure a truly integrated service and ensuring robust governance arrangements are in place supporting full accountability for quality performance.
- Lastly, it goes without saying, you'll demonstrate exemplar personal standards of conduct and behaviour, providing effective clinical leadership and act as a role model for all staff across MFT in all areas.
About us
MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our over 28,000 workforce to pursue their career goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from an extraordinary scale of opportunity.
We're also creating a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research & innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system, which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, offering a robust infrastructure to facilitate high-quality research programmes. Moreover, we're excited to be progressing our MFT Green Plan along with our vison to become an Anchor Organisation, creating new jobs, promoting healthy lifestyles, developing skills and contributing to a zero-carbon environment for the benefit of the local neighbourhood.
At MFT, we create & foster a culture of inclusion & belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open & transparent, protecting your health & wellbeing & shaping MFT's future together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This post is an exciting opportunity for a motivated, committed and experienced Mental Health Safeguarding Practitioner to lead and drive mental health safeguarding activity across the organisation.
You will be a key leader in a large multidisciplinary safeguarding team that consists of Named Nurses (community, acute, children, adult and midwifery services), Specialist Nurses for Safeguarding, Specialist Nurses Mental Health and Learning Disability and Administration staff.
To succeed, you will need to be a highly motivated and committed advocate for making safeguarding personal for our citizens. You will ensure safe and effective services for safeguarding adults at risk remains an absolute priority for all our staff working within the organisation across acute and community services
There is a requirement for flexibility to work across the safeguarding team and the ability to lead the safeguarding health partnership working across Manchester/Trafford in collaboration with our multi-agency partners.
You will need excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills and a flair for critically evaluating information and documenting in a concise, objective and accurate manner.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
This post is an exciting opportunity for a motivated, committed and experienced Mental Health Safeguarding Practitioner to lead and drive mental health safeguarding activity across the organisation.
You will be a key leader in a large multidisciplinary safeguarding team that consists of Named Nurses (community, acute, children, adult and midwifery services), Specialist Nurses for Safeguarding, Specialist Nurses Mental Health and Learning Disability and Administration staff.
To succeed, you will need to be a highly motivated and committed advocate for making safeguarding personal for our citizens. You will ensure safe and effective services for safeguarding adults at risk remains an absolute priority for all our staff working within the organisation across acute and community services
There is a requirement for flexibility to work across the safeguarding team and the ability to lead the safeguarding health partnership working across Manchester/Trafford in collaboration with our multi-agency partners.
You will need excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills and a flair for critically evaluating information and documenting in a concise, objective and accurate manner.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Relevant degree or working towards a relevant degree.
- oEvidence of study in management and leadership.
- Teaching qualification or experience of teaching.
Desirable
- Completion of adult and child safeguarding modules. Using Desirable criteria to further score candidates
- Evidence of study at master's level
- Experience at Band 7 level of psychiatric liaison
Experience
Essential
- A minimum of 2 years in a senior clinical position at Band 7 or above with proven ability to manage a team.
- Evidence of direct significant safeguarding of adults experience in relation to mental health, learning disability and autism
- Knowledge/understanding of learning disability and autism
- Evidence of experience of safeguarding children.
- Experience of successfully managing the implementation of change.
- Evidence of professional leadership, leading to innovation in practice.
- Evidence of developing/providing education programmes for the multi-disciplinary team.
- Evidence of multi-agency working.
- Evidence and experience of implementing and coordinating safeguarding procedures within a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience and knowledge of multidisciplinary audit.
- Experience of working within the realms of MCA/DoLS and an understanding / knowledge of LPS legislation
- Experience in contributing to Serious Adult Reviews (SARS) serious case reviews (SCRs) and domestic homicide reviews DHR's).
Desirable
- Experience of research activities
- Experience of business planning
Skills, abilities and knowledge
Essential
- Excellent communication skills and ability to provide written and verbal reports for safeguarding proceedings.
- Excellent Presentation skills.
- Strong analytical skills.
- The ability to practice as an expert practitioner in relation to safeguarding provision.
- Effective organisational skills
- Effective Facilitation skills.
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
- Evidence of current knowledge of local and national policies relating to safeguarding mental health, learning disability and autism pertaining to professional and NHS policy initiatives.
- IT/word processing /database skills.
Desirable
- Experience in both Community and Acute health settings.
Personal attributes
Essential
- Open minded, treats colleagues with dignity and respect.
- Open minded, treats colleagues with dignity and respect.
- Capacity to work with clinicians and staff at all levels.
- Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behavior.
- Enthusiasm and inspirational skills
- Ability to work across providers/agencies and engage with professionals in senior positions.
Desirable
- Awards - local and national
- Publications.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Relevant degree or working towards a relevant degree.
- oEvidence of study in management and leadership.
- Teaching qualification or experience of teaching.
Desirable
- Completion of adult and child safeguarding modules. Using Desirable criteria to further score candidates
- Evidence of study at master's level
- Experience at Band 7 level of psychiatric liaison
Experience
Essential
- A minimum of 2 years in a senior clinical position at Band 7 or above with proven ability to manage a team.
- Evidence of direct significant safeguarding of adults experience in relation to mental health, learning disability and autism
- Knowledge/understanding of learning disability and autism
- Evidence of experience of safeguarding children.
- Experience of successfully managing the implementation of change.
- Evidence of professional leadership, leading to innovation in practice.
- Evidence of developing/providing education programmes for the multi-disciplinary team.
- Evidence of multi-agency working.
- Evidence and experience of implementing and coordinating safeguarding procedures within a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience and knowledge of multidisciplinary audit.
- Experience of working within the realms of MCA/DoLS and an understanding / knowledge of LPS legislation
- Experience in contributing to Serious Adult Reviews (SARS) serious case reviews (SCRs) and domestic homicide reviews DHR's).
Desirable
- Experience of research activities
- Experience of business planning
Skills, abilities and knowledge
Essential
- Excellent communication skills and ability to provide written and verbal reports for safeguarding proceedings.
- Excellent Presentation skills.
- Strong analytical skills.
- The ability to practice as an expert practitioner in relation to safeguarding provision.
- Effective organisational skills
- Effective Facilitation skills.
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
- Evidence of current knowledge of local and national policies relating to safeguarding mental health, learning disability and autism pertaining to professional and NHS policy initiatives.
- IT/word processing /database skills.
Desirable
- Experience in both Community and Acute health settings.
Personal attributes
Essential
- Open minded, treats colleagues with dignity and respect.
- Open minded, treats colleagues with dignity and respect.
- Capacity to work with clinicians and staff at all levels.
- Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behavior.
- Enthusiasm and inspirational skills
- Ability to work across providers/agencies and engage with professionals in senior positions.
Desirable
- Awards - local and national
- Publications.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Wythenshawe base - expectation some travel across site
Safeguarding Office 5th Floor Tower Block Wythenshawe Hospital
Manchester
M23 9LT
Employer's website
https://mft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)
