Job summary
The
Associate Professional for Safeguarding will work closely with the Head of
Safeguarding and Integrated Safeguarding Team members to:
Ensure
that The Trust meets its legal & statutory obligations to safeguard and promote the
welfare of all adults, children and young people and who access services from
any hospital site within the Trust.
Actively
participate in all Safeguarding Training delivery for both Safeguarding Adults
and Safeguarding Children training and PREVENT / WRAP, across all levels to all
Trust staff, including provision of bespoke training and supporting the Integrated Safeguarding Team with safeguarding training development and review
Support the Integrated Safeguarding Team in the development and delivery of quality assurance
processes, audits and report writing in accordance with the Safeguarding
Children and Adult agenda.
Support
the Integrated Safeguarding Team in all aspect of the multi-agency Safeguarding Children
and Safeguarding Adult Agenda, as deemed appropriate. This may include
deputising within forums and meetings as deemed appropriate.
Main duties of the job
The Associate Professional for Safeguarding supports and ensures effective Safeguarding practice for the organisation as stipulated in primary legislation and underpinned in Government strategy and national, regional and local guidance, procedures and standards. Professionals in this role will:
- Support the Named Nurses and Named Midwife to develop, implement and review safeguarding practice across the organisation and its networks.
- Support the Named Nurses and Named Midwife in the provision of specialist professional safeguarding advice.
- Deliver safeguarding training and support the Integrated Safeguarding Team to develop, implement and evaluate safeguarding training for all staff groups from induction to specialist courses.
- Facilitate safe and effective multi-professional communication and information sharing appropriately across a range of settings and agencies in accordance with agreed policies and procedures in relation to safeguarding
- Communicate highly complex, sensitive and emotive information within the health service and multi-agency contexts, pertaining to safeguarding adults, children and young people.
- Foster effective working relationships in order to promote inter-disciplinary and multi-agency collaboration and be an active member of multi-agency safeguarding groups.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
- Best services for local people
- Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
- Best use of resources
- Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Associate Professional for Safeguarding supports and ensures effective Safeguarding practice for the organisation as stipulated in primary legislation and underpinned in Government strategy and national, regional and local guidance, procedures and standards. Professionals in this role will:
- Support the Named Nurses and Named Midwife to develop, implement and review safeguarding practice across the organisation and its networks.
- Support the Named Nurses and Named Midwife in the provision of specialist professional safeguarding advice.
- Deliver safeguarding training and support the Integrated Safeguarding Team to develop, implement and evaluate safeguarding training for all staff groups from induction to specialist courses.
- Facilitate safe and effective multi-professional communication and information sharing appropriately across a range of settings and agencies in accordance with agreed policies and procedures in relation to safeguarding
- Communicate highly complex, sensitive and emotive information within the health service and multi-agency contexts, pertaining to safeguarding adults, children and young people.
- Foster effective working relationships in order to promote inter-disciplinary and multi-agency collaboration and be an active member of multi-agency safeguarding groups.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Associate Professional for Safeguarding supports and ensures effective Safeguarding practice for the organisation as stipulated in primary legislation and underpinned in Government strategy and national, regional and local guidance, procedures and standards. Professionals in this role will:
- Support the Named Nurses and Named Midwife to develop, implement and review safeguarding practice across the organisation and its networks.
- Support the Named Nurses and Named Midwife in the provision of specialist professional safeguarding advice.
- Deliver safeguarding training and support the Integrated Safeguarding Team to develop, implement and evaluate safeguarding training for all staff groups from induction to specialist courses.
- Facilitate safe and effective multi-professional communication and information sharing appropriately across a range of settings and agencies in accordance with agreed policies and procedures in relation to safeguarding
- Communicate highly complex, sensitive and emotive information within the health service and multi-agency contexts, pertaining to safeguarding adults, children and young people.
- Foster effective working relationships in order to promote inter-disciplinary and multi-agency collaboration and be an active member of multi-agency safeguarding groups.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience and knowledge of specialty
- Experience of child /adult protection work
- Relevant post registration experience within specialism, including community
- Senior post holder in current or previous job
- Experience of interagency working in relation to Safeguarding practice
- Clinical audit, quality assurance and standard setting
- Service development and or change management
Desirable
- Experienced in the delivery of safeguarding training
Other job requirements
Essential
- Commitment to delivering high quality evidence based child protection practice
- Commitment to working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency situations
- Commitment to the development of The Trusts safeguarding and child welfare agenda.
- Commitment to valuing the contribution of all colleagues, encouraging a positive and creative working environment
- Commitment to own personal and professional development and to the development of others.
- Car Driver - Required to travel across hospital sites in accordance to service need
- Standard Clauses
- A Disclosures and Barring Service check will be carried out where the position is eligible for a Disclosures and Barring Service Check in accordance with the 2012 Protection of Freedom Act and the guidance issued by the DBS.
- All posts working with children or vulnerable adults are required to have an Enhanced DBS checked including checking against DBS / ISA Vetting and Barring lists.
Knowlegdge & Skills
Essential
- Ability to contribute to analysis and problem solving safeguarding and practice issues.
- Demonstrate ability to resolve issues relating to competence, or conflict personally, within the team, externally within health or in partner agencies.
- Teaching and assessment skills
- Communication skills
- Organisational skills
- Time management skills
- Change management skills
- Advisory, support and guidance
- Training and a vast array of varying presentation skills
- IT proficient, including the formulation of Excel Spreadsheets, various reports and action plans
- Current issues in health and social care pertaining to safeguarding
- Standards of professional practice and conduct
- Policies and Procedures proficient
- Monitoring and review of systems, practice and processes
- Multi-agency and multi-disciplinary Communication and Liaison
- Knowledge of current issues in relation to Safeguarding Children, young people and families, including Domestic Abuse, Mental Health, Substance Misuse, Child Sexual Exploitation, Female Genital Mutilation, Child Death Overview Process and Looked after Children.
- The ability to write in depth reports affording analysis and great understanding of risk
- Understanding of the local and national safeguarding children agenda and maternal health
- Understanding of relevant National Service Frameworks
- Awareness of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust guidelines and policies
- Professional knowledge and skills for working at a senior level
- Knowledge of child protection policies, procedures and good practice guidelines
- Knowledge of Inter-agency procedures and of the legal framework and related guidelines governing child protection
- Ability to act professionally at all times
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma or degree in Nursing or Professional equivalent (Adult and / or Childrens)
- Teaching and Assessing qualification or working towards
- Evidence of continued professional development and its application with particular pertinence to Safeguarding Courses
Desirable
- Specialist Practitioner Qualification, School Nurse or Health Visitor
Personal qualities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Innovator
- Motivator
- Assertiveness
- Flexibility, adaptable, capable of lateral thinking
- Positive role model
- Resilient
- Autonomous
- Tenacious
- Team player
- Conflict management
- Managing stress
- Uses initiative to resolve issues within their own control
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience and knowledge of specialty
- Experience of child /adult protection work
- Relevant post registration experience within specialism, including community
- Senior post holder in current or previous job
- Experience of interagency working in relation to Safeguarding practice
- Clinical audit, quality assurance and standard setting
- Service development and or change management
Desirable
- Experienced in the delivery of safeguarding training
Other job requirements
Essential
- Commitment to delivering high quality evidence based child protection practice
- Commitment to working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency situations
- Commitment to the development of The Trusts safeguarding and child welfare agenda.
- Commitment to valuing the contribution of all colleagues, encouraging a positive and creative working environment
- Commitment to own personal and professional development and to the development of others.
- Car Driver - Required to travel across hospital sites in accordance to service need
- Standard Clauses
- A Disclosures and Barring Service check will be carried out where the position is eligible for a Disclosures and Barring Service Check in accordance with the 2012 Protection of Freedom Act and the guidance issued by the DBS.
- All posts working with children or vulnerable adults are required to have an Enhanced DBS checked including checking against DBS / ISA Vetting and Barring lists.
Knowlegdge & Skills
Essential
- Ability to contribute to analysis and problem solving safeguarding and practice issues.
- Demonstrate ability to resolve issues relating to competence, or conflict personally, within the team, externally within health or in partner agencies.
- Teaching and assessment skills
- Communication skills
- Organisational skills
- Time management skills
- Change management skills
- Advisory, support and guidance
- Training and a vast array of varying presentation skills
- IT proficient, including the formulation of Excel Spreadsheets, various reports and action plans
- Current issues in health and social care pertaining to safeguarding
- Standards of professional practice and conduct
- Policies and Procedures proficient
- Monitoring and review of systems, practice and processes
- Multi-agency and multi-disciplinary Communication and Liaison
- Knowledge of current issues in relation to Safeguarding Children, young people and families, including Domestic Abuse, Mental Health, Substance Misuse, Child Sexual Exploitation, Female Genital Mutilation, Child Death Overview Process and Looked after Children.
- The ability to write in depth reports affording analysis and great understanding of risk
- Understanding of the local and national safeguarding children agenda and maternal health
- Understanding of relevant National Service Frameworks
- Awareness of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust guidelines and policies
- Professional knowledge and skills for working at a senior level
- Knowledge of child protection policies, procedures and good practice guidelines
- Knowledge of Inter-agency procedures and of the legal framework and related guidelines governing child protection
- Ability to act professionally at all times
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma or degree in Nursing or Professional equivalent (Adult and / or Childrens)
- Teaching and Assessing qualification or working towards
- Evidence of continued professional development and its application with particular pertinence to Safeguarding Courses
Desirable
- Specialist Practitioner Qualification, School Nurse or Health Visitor
Personal qualities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Innovator
- Motivator
- Assertiveness
- Flexibility, adaptable, capable of lateral thinking
- Positive role model
- Resilient
- Autonomous
- Tenacious
- Team player
- Conflict management
- Managing stress
- Uses initiative to resolve issues within their own control
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).
