Job summary
Are you an experienced senior nurse, therapist or social worker with a passion for safeguarding & a commitment to delivering high-quality care for adults & children services? If so, this is your opportunity to lead & shape the safeguarding strategy within Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.As the Safeguarding Lead you will provide senior leadership, ensuring the highest standards of safeguarding practice across our Trust. You will work with an enthusiastic and committed team responsible for developing & implementing strategies, quality governance, & performance management to ensure safe and effective safeguarding services.
Main duties of the job
This role involves:
- Providing expert advice to ensure the safety of patients and colleagues
- Strategic Leadership - Shaping & delivering the Trust's safeguarding vision & compliance with statutory regulations.
- Quality Assurance - Ensuring safeguarding governance aligns with national standards supporting audit processes.
- Multi-Agency Collaboration - Representing the Trust at Local Safeguarding Boards and Partnerships & working closely with external stakeholders.
- Education & Training - Leading staff training & development in safeguarding best practices.
- Service Improvement - Driving continuous quality improvements to safeguarding processes & patient care.
About us
We employ more than 6,500 colleagues who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients' homes. We are proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation; listening and responding to the needs of our people - patients, colleagues and the local community.
At CHFT we have one culture of care; we care for each other in the same way as we care for our patients. As a leader, you will be part of a wider group of other CHFT people who are also working hard to be good leaders; in an organisation where colleagues are supported and valued.
We provide a range of services including community health care, urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care, sexual health and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main responsibilities of the post include:
- Leading on the strategic planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of innovative practice in the management of the safeguarding agenda (adults and children); to promote health and well-being and prevent adverse effects on these due to safeguarding concerns not being managed.
- Leading on the development of evidence-based Trust Safeguarding Policies & Procedures, in line with those of the Safeguarding Partnerships and Boards.
- Managing the Integrated Safeguarding Team, ensuring effective recruitment, performance management, learning and development of staff.
- Monitoring the delivery of the Safeguarding agenda whilst promptly identifying and investigating any issues, changing priorities and implementing corrective actions where necessary.
- Engaging and collaborating effectively with colleagues across health and social care and other agencies e.g. education, police. Identify concerns about health and well-being and discuss approaches available in management strategies for patients identified with safeguarding issues.
- Identifying trends in health and well-being to be able to effectively manage safeguarding resources.
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Contributing to national research and the national policy agenda within Safeguarding
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Working collaboratively with colleagues across the multiagency partnership, and where appropriate with patients and the public, to define and clarify the strategic direction of safeguarding.
- Facilitating collaboration between primary and secondary care and other agencies to improve the quality outcomes for people undergoing Safeguarding concerns.
- Managing all resources effectively.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main responsibilities of the post include:
- Leading on the strategic planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of innovative practice in the management of the safeguarding agenda (adults and children); to promote health and well-being and prevent adverse effects on these due to safeguarding concerns not being managed.
- Leading on the development of evidence-based Trust Safeguarding Policies & Procedures, in line with those of the Safeguarding Partnerships and Boards.
- Managing the Integrated Safeguarding Team, ensuring effective recruitment, performance management, learning and development of staff.
- Monitoring the delivery of the Safeguarding agenda whilst promptly identifying and investigating any issues, changing priorities and implementing corrective actions where necessary.
- Engaging and collaborating effectively with colleagues across health and social care and other agencies e.g. education, police. Identify concerns about health and well-being and discuss approaches available in management strategies for patients identified with safeguarding issues.
- Identifying trends in health and well-being to be able to effectively manage safeguarding resources.
-
Contributing to national research and the national policy agenda within Safeguarding
-
Working collaboratively with colleagues across the multiagency partnership, and where appropriate with patients and the public, to define and clarify the strategic direction of safeguarding.
- Facilitating collaboration between primary and secondary care and other agencies to improve the quality outcomes for people undergoing Safeguarding concerns.
- Managing all resources effectively.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS AND TRAINING
Essential
- Registered Health or Social Care Practitioner
- Graduate in Health or Social care related subject
- Willing to undertake ongoing educational development
- Confident IT skills in the use of data collection spreadsheets, word processing and report writing
- Post registration qualification in Safeguarding
Desirable
- Postgraduate Master's degree in appropriate health or social care related subject
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE
Essential
- Experience within safeguarding at a senior level
- Demonstratable extensive experience of working within the NHS & a good working knowledge of acute NHS Trusts
- Detailed knowledge and expertise of the safeguarding agenda including child protection vulnerable adults and domestic violence
- Portfolio of evidence demonstrating leadership, education and service development achievements
- Demonstrable evidence of setting and meeting clinical governance objectives
- Evidence of the proactive involvement in the supervision and development of members of the multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of the midwifery, children and vulnerable adult agenda
- Evidence of research skills
- Able to work within a given resource and demonstrate imaginative and effective use of resources
- Evidence of extensive expert professional knowledge of the safeguarding agenda supplemented by specialist training and CPD
- Able to demonstrate a wide knowledge of health and social care policy and its application in practice
- Be able to undertake/contribute to serious practice reviews, adults' reviews and Domestic Homicide reviews
- Be able to lead/oversee safeguarding quality assurance/improvement
- Be able to give appropriate advice to external agencies/organisations
- Has the ability to manage conflicting views and reconciles inter and intra professional differences of opinion
- Be able to influence improvements in safeguarding across the health economy
- Ability to meet deadlines and targets
Desirable
- Have an understanding of the criminal justice system
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES
Essential
- Excellent communicator
- History of reliability
- Excellent time management skills
- Evidence of skills in diplomacy and negotiation
- Evidence of effective people management
- Is able to make operational judgements involving complex facts/situations in relation to safeguarding concerns
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS AND TRAINING
Essential
- Registered Health or Social Care Practitioner
- Graduate in Health or Social care related subject
- Willing to undertake ongoing educational development
- Confident IT skills in the use of data collection spreadsheets, word processing and report writing
- Post registration qualification in Safeguarding
Desirable
- Postgraduate Master's degree in appropriate health or social care related subject
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE
Essential
- Experience within safeguarding at a senior level
- Demonstratable extensive experience of working within the NHS & a good working knowledge of acute NHS Trusts
- Detailed knowledge and expertise of the safeguarding agenda including child protection vulnerable adults and domestic violence
- Portfolio of evidence demonstrating leadership, education and service development achievements
- Demonstrable evidence of setting and meeting clinical governance objectives
- Evidence of the proactive involvement in the supervision and development of members of the multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of the midwifery, children and vulnerable adult agenda
- Evidence of research skills
- Able to work within a given resource and demonstrate imaginative and effective use of resources
- Evidence of extensive expert professional knowledge of the safeguarding agenda supplemented by specialist training and CPD
- Able to demonstrate a wide knowledge of health and social care policy and its application in practice
- Be able to undertake/contribute to serious practice reviews, adults' reviews and Domestic Homicide reviews
- Be able to lead/oversee safeguarding quality assurance/improvement
- Be able to give appropriate advice to external agencies/organisations
- Has the ability to manage conflicting views and reconciles inter and intra professional differences of opinion
- Be able to influence improvements in safeguarding across the health economy
- Ability to meet deadlines and targets
Desirable
- Have an understanding of the criminal justice system
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES
Essential
- Excellent communicator
- History of reliability
- Excellent time management skills
- Evidence of skills in diplomacy and negotiation
- Evidence of effective people management
- Is able to make operational judgements involving complex facts/situations in relation to safeguarding concerns
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
