Job summary
Are you a dynamic and enthusiastic GP with
experience in the area of Safeguarding Adult and Children, and would like to
develop more experience and skills in working at a strategic and system level? NHS
Somerset Integrated Care Board, (Somerset ICB) is providing the exciting opportunity
for a Named GP Safeguarding Adults and Children.
This is a substantive post for 4 sessions per week.
The successful applicant will work
closely with, be a welcome part of and be fully supported by the Somerset ICBs
friendly, enthusiastic and dedicated safeguarding team.
The
ideal candidate will be committed to developing expertise in the area of
Safeguarding Adults and Children and have a desire to further develop their safeguarding
leadership role at a strategic and system level. A key element of the role is working with GPs,
Primary Care Staff and GP Safeguarding Leads on issues relating to the
protection and safeguarding of children and adults at risk.
The nature of this role involves working with a range of stakeholders to support the best outcomes for people in Somerset who are experiencing abuse and neglect. This includes providing leadership and expertise from a Primary Care perspective to the Somerset Safeguarding Children Partnership (SSCP) and the Somerset Safeguarding Adult Board (SSAB).
This post is based at NHS Somerset ICB HQ - Wynford House, Lufton Way, Yeovil, Somerset, BA22 8HR.
Main duties of the job
The ICB operates an agile
working policy with all staff being expected to work from Wynford House for at
least part of their working week. Please
also note that elements of the role may require you to routinely travel to
other locations across the county of Somerset, to attend in-person meetings and
meet the needs of the service.
For
more information or an informal discussion about the role prior to applying,
please contact:
Name: Sarah Ashe,
Associate Director of Safeguarding, Mental Health , Learning Disability and
Autism, Somerset ICB
Email: sarah.ashe@nhs.net
Tel: 01935 384122 / Mobile: 07979 850247
Name: Marie
Davis, Designated Nurse Safeguarding Children, Somerset ICB
E-mail: maria.davis@nhs.net
Tel: 01935 385266 / Mobile: 07387258287
Name: Dr
Jo Nicholl, Designated Doctor Safeguarding Children, Somerset ICB
E-mail: joanne.nicholl@nhs.net
Mobile: 07468 710587
This post will close at midnight on Monday
10th October 2022. Please note however, that this post may close
sooner and without warning, if we receive a large number of applications. Interviews
will be held on Friday 21st October 2022 at Wynford House.
Please read the attached Values and
Behaviours information before applying, along with all other documents / links
listed.
We thank you in advance for your
interest in working for Somerset ICB and look forward to receiving your
application.
About us
NHS Somerset
Integrated Care Board (ICB), known as NHS Somerset is the statutory NHS
organisation responsible for implementing a health and care strategy developed
by the Integrated Care Partnership.
NHS
Somerset consists of approx. 300 staff, across 8 directorates, with multiple
teams within each directorate.
We
encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and welcome applications
from underrepresented groups. When recruiting, we are committed to equality of
opportunity for all. We believe that the best organisations are those that
reflect the communities they serve.
Job
Share and Secondment opportunities will be considered. If you are seeking an internal or external secondment, please seek
advice from your HR team and you must also obtain your current line
manager's permission to be released on secondment before applying, to avoid
disappointment.
We
also offer an excellent pension scheme and generous annual leave entitlement.
Please
read the attached documents / visit the links listed before applying.
Thank
you for your interest.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Specifics
Band: Sessional rate of £260
Proposed
hours: 4 Sessions
16 hours a week
Contract: Substantive
Directorate: Quality and Nursing
Line
Manager: Designated
Nurse for Safeguarding Children
Responsible
to: Associate
Director of Safeguarding, Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism
Accountable
to: Chief Medical Officer
Base: Wynford House, Lufton Way, Yeovil, Somerset, BA22 8HR
Purpose of the role
This
post is designed to give clinical leadership in relation to the safeguarding of
children and adults across Somerset. Each clinical lead will be responsible for
a specific clinical area and will work closely with local people, their
families and carers, other GPs, health care providers and other health care
professionals to ensure that high quality, accessible health care services are
delivered within the particular clinical area. The post holder will be the
Named GP for Safeguarding Children and Adults, working as part of NHS Somerset integrated
Care Board (ICB) and covering Somerset ICB member
practices. The specific clinical area will be safeguarding children and adults.
This specialist safeguarding role includes:
- Acting as clinical lead for safeguarding
in Primary Care
- Contributing to the safeguarding element
of provider assurance visits
- Taking responsibility for discrete and
specific pieces of safeguarding work as required.
The
Named General Practitioner (GP) for safeguarding children and adults will
support all activities necessary to ensure that the organisation meets its
responsibilities to safeguard children, young people and adults at risk of or
experiencing abuse or neglect. The Named GP is responsible to and accountable
within the managerial framework of the employing organisation at
all times and in relation to the roles and responsibilities listed within this
job description. This includes working in accordance with all relevant legislation
and statutory guidance which includes but is not limited to:
- Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018
- The Children Act 1989 and 2004
- The Children and Social Work Act 2017
- The Care Act 2014
- The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (
incorporating the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, and implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards)
- Prevent Strategy 2011
- Serious Crimes Act 2015
- Domestic Abuse Act 2021
- Health and Care Act 2022
To act as the Named GP for
Safeguarding Children and Adults as described in the areas above, working as
part of the ICB team to
provide expert advice and support to GPs and Primary Care Staff on issues
relating to the protection and safeguarding of children and adults at risk
Key responsibilities of the role
- To provide expert advice and support to
GPs and Primary Care Staff on issues relating to the protection and
safeguarding of children and adults at risk.
- To provide training for general practice
through face-to-face e-learning support and contributing to level 3 training.
To contribute to the developments of training packages
- Establish training framework for primary
care in relation to safeguarding adults and children and oversee its
implementation.
- To work collaboratively with, the
Designated Nurses for Safeguarding Adults, Children and Children Looked After,
the Associate Director of Safeguarding, and all other Doctors and Professionals
in the wider ICB Strategic Safeguarding Team, to ensure clinical practice
relating to safeguarding is consistent with national and local policy.
- To represent the ICB and work
collaboratively with stakeholders in the development of Safeguarding Adults and
Safeguarding Children guidance, policy and procedure.
- To represent the ICB and work
collaboratively with other stakeholders as a reference point when there is a
need to resolve professional differences in relation to safeguarding.
- To represent the ICB at statutory boards
and partnerships as required
- To undertake and contribute to mandated
and statutory investigations and reviews and to participate in any panel
process which includes but is not limited to Domestic Homicide Reviews,
Safeguarding Adults Reviews and Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews
- To work closely with the wider ICB
Strategic Safeguarding team to ensure the statutory duties for safeguarding are
implemented in general practice.
- Liaise with professional leads from
other agencies, such as Education, the Police and Social Care in order to
support all activities necessary to ensure that staff in primary care meet their
responsibilities.
- Work in partnership with all relevant ICBs,
as required, to ensure that effective safeguarding is embedded in the commissioning
cycle.
- Work in partnership with the ICB team
and provide advice and support to GPs and their staff in relation to
safeguarding.
- Within the wider ICB safeguarding team, work
with the GP and Primary Care Network safeguarding leads to promote good
safeguarding practice in primary care.
- Support staff in primary care in developing
robust monitoring systems and practices/audits to ensure they can fulfil their
role in safeguarding.
- Take an active part in Child
Safeguarding Practice Reviews, Safeguarding Adults Reviews and Domestic
Homicide Reviews, serious incidents or other high risk incidents where there
are safeguarding concerns. This will include completing reviews of primary care
involvement and supporting the implementation of any recommendations relating
to primary care.
- Provide primary care expertise to inform
developments in safeguarding and improve practice in relation to safeguarding
across the multi-agency system in Somerset.
- Promote best practice in ensuring the
wishes and feelings of children and adults at risk underpin safeguarding
interventions by primary care staff.
- Contribute to development and analysis
of local safeguarding audits, including Section 11 audits, and/or programmes of
work to improve safeguarding policies and practice in Primary Care in
collaboration with ICB Strategic Safeguarding Team and wider multi-agency
partners.
- Lead the development of an engagement
strategy for primary care and primary care networks (PCNs) in relation to
Safeguarding.
- Contribute to the development of the
local Health System Safeguarding Strategy and take a leadership role in respect
of actions related to General Practice.
- Contribute to formal and informal safeguarding
supervision within General Practice.
- Contribute to ensuring that local and national
safeguarding procedures (including changes) are distributed, understood and
implemented by General Practice.
- To attend, where required the Child
Death Overview Panel, (CDOP), as the ICB representative, and take the lead on
disseminating the learning to General Practice.
- To attend where required health, and
other local Safeguarding Partnerships and Board subgroups and task and finish groups.
- Help ensure that health care for Children
Looked After and Care Leavers is prioritised within General Practice.
- To work collaboratively with all members
of the ICB Strategic Safeguarding Team to implement a think family approach.
Key
Working Relationships
- Required to develop effective working
relationship with a wide ranging and diverse group of internal and external
stakeholders
- To attend, where required, multi-agency
meetings on behalf of the ICB with the Somerset County Council, CQC and other
key stakeholders
- To attend the sub groups of relevant boards
and partnerships related to safeguarding e.g. Somerset Safeguarding Adults
Board and Somerset Safeguarding Children Partnership and Safer Somerset Partnership
- To attend case debriefs, learning
reviews and learning events as relevant
- To provide safeguarding representation,
where required at Domestic Homicide Review, (DHR), panel meetings and support
the primary care contribution to these meetings through chronology analysis,
production of Individual Management Reports and identification of
recommendations for General Practice
- To contribute to the Quarterly Safeguarding Assurance
Report to the ICB Quality Committee
- To
work as a member of the ICB quality and nursing team to support wider assurance
and quality improvement work.
- To
provide safeguarding leadership, support and advice to primary care across the ICB
geographical area.
- To
contribute to patient involvement, engagement and involvement of at-risk
patients, relatives and advocates. Gain feedback in order to ensure services
and service improvements are patient centred and enhance equality.
Training
- Support
the development and delivery of Safeguarding Adults, Safeguarding Children,
Prevent, Mental Capacity, Deprivation of Liberty Safegurds, (DoLS), and Liberty
Protection Safeguards, (LPS), training packages to ICB staff
- Support
the development and delivery of Safeguarding Adults, Safeguarding Children,
Prevent, Mental Capacity, DoLS and LPS training packages to primary care
Staff
- Provide
primary care expertise to the ICB Strategic Safeguarding Team, the wider
Quality and Nursing Team and safeguarding partners.
- Attend
ICB meetings as necessary.
- To
perform, in a timely fashion, all administrative work related to the clinical
role as outlined above.
- To
work in accordance with all Local and National Safeguarding policies, procedures, and protocols
Please see additonal rsponsibilites on supporting documents
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Specifics
Band: Sessional rate of £260
Proposed
hours: 4 Sessions
16 hours a week
Contract: Substantive
Directorate: Quality and Nursing
Line
Manager: Designated
Nurse for Safeguarding Children
Responsible
to: Associate
Director of Safeguarding, Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism
Accountable
to: Chief Medical Officer
Base: Wynford House, Lufton Way, Yeovil, Somerset, BA22 8HR
Purpose of the role
This
post is designed to give clinical leadership in relation to the safeguarding of
children and adults across Somerset. Each clinical lead will be responsible for
a specific clinical area and will work closely with local people, their
families and carers, other GPs, health care providers and other health care
professionals to ensure that high quality, accessible health care services are
delivered within the particular clinical area. The post holder will be the
Named GP for Safeguarding Children and Adults, working as part of NHS Somerset integrated
Care Board (ICB) and covering Somerset ICB member
practices. The specific clinical area will be safeguarding children and adults.
This specialist safeguarding role includes:
- Acting as clinical lead for safeguarding
in Primary Care
- Contributing to the safeguarding element
of provider assurance visits
- Taking responsibility for discrete and
specific pieces of safeguarding work as required.
The
Named General Practitioner (GP) for safeguarding children and adults will
support all activities necessary to ensure that the organisation meets its
responsibilities to safeguard children, young people and adults at risk of or
experiencing abuse or neglect. The Named GP is responsible to and accountable
within the managerial framework of the employing organisation at
all times and in relation to the roles and responsibilities listed within this
job description. This includes working in accordance with all relevant legislation
and statutory guidance which includes but is not limited to:
- Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018
- The Children Act 1989 and 2004
- The Children and Social Work Act 2017
- The Care Act 2014
- The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (
incorporating the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, and implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards)
- Prevent Strategy 2011
- Serious Crimes Act 2015
- Domestic Abuse Act 2021
- Health and Care Act 2022
To act as the Named GP for
Safeguarding Children and Adults as described in the areas above, working as
part of the ICB team to
provide expert advice and support to GPs and Primary Care Staff on issues
relating to the protection and safeguarding of children and adults at risk
Key responsibilities of the role
- To provide expert advice and support to
GPs and Primary Care Staff on issues relating to the protection and
safeguarding of children and adults at risk.
- To provide training for general practice
through face-to-face e-learning support and contributing to level 3 training.
To contribute to the developments of training packages
- Establish training framework for primary
care in relation to safeguarding adults and children and oversee its
implementation.
- To work collaboratively with, the
Designated Nurses for Safeguarding Adults, Children and Children Looked After,
the Associate Director of Safeguarding, and all other Doctors and Professionals
in the wider ICB Strategic Safeguarding Team, to ensure clinical practice
relating to safeguarding is consistent with national and local policy.
- To represent the ICB and work
collaboratively with stakeholders in the development of Safeguarding Adults and
Safeguarding Children guidance, policy and procedure.
- To represent the ICB and work
collaboratively with other stakeholders as a reference point when there is a
need to resolve professional differences in relation to safeguarding.
- To represent the ICB at statutory boards
and partnerships as required
- To undertake and contribute to mandated
and statutory investigations and reviews and to participate in any panel
process which includes but is not limited to Domestic Homicide Reviews,
Safeguarding Adults Reviews and Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews
- To work closely with the wider ICB
Strategic Safeguarding team to ensure the statutory duties for safeguarding are
implemented in general practice.
- Liaise with professional leads from
other agencies, such as Education, the Police and Social Care in order to
support all activities necessary to ensure that staff in primary care meet their
responsibilities.
- Work in partnership with all relevant ICBs,
as required, to ensure that effective safeguarding is embedded in the commissioning
cycle.
- Work in partnership with the ICB team
and provide advice and support to GPs and their staff in relation to
safeguarding.
- Within the wider ICB safeguarding team, work
with the GP and Primary Care Network safeguarding leads to promote good
safeguarding practice in primary care.
- Support staff in primary care in developing
robust monitoring systems and practices/audits to ensure they can fulfil their
role in safeguarding.
- Take an active part in Child
Safeguarding Practice Reviews, Safeguarding Adults Reviews and Domestic
Homicide Reviews, serious incidents or other high risk incidents where there
are safeguarding concerns. This will include completing reviews of primary care
involvement and supporting the implementation of any recommendations relating
to primary care.
- Provide primary care expertise to inform
developments in safeguarding and improve practice in relation to safeguarding
across the multi-agency system in Somerset.
- Promote best practice in ensuring the
wishes and feelings of children and adults at risk underpin safeguarding
interventions by primary care staff.
- Contribute to development and analysis
of local safeguarding audits, including Section 11 audits, and/or programmes of
work to improve safeguarding policies and practice in Primary Care in
collaboration with ICB Strategic Safeguarding Team and wider multi-agency
partners.
- Lead the development of an engagement
strategy for primary care and primary care networks (PCNs) in relation to
Safeguarding.
- Contribute to the development of the
local Health System Safeguarding Strategy and take a leadership role in respect
of actions related to General Practice.
- Contribute to formal and informal safeguarding
supervision within General Practice.
- Contribute to ensuring that local and national
safeguarding procedures (including changes) are distributed, understood and
implemented by General Practice.
- To attend, where required the Child
Death Overview Panel, (CDOP), as the ICB representative, and take the lead on
disseminating the learning to General Practice.
- To attend where required health, and
other local Safeguarding Partnerships and Board subgroups and task and finish groups.
- Help ensure that health care for Children
Looked After and Care Leavers is prioritised within General Practice.
- To work collaboratively with all members
of the ICB Strategic Safeguarding Team to implement a think family approach.
Key
Working Relationships
- Required to develop effective working
relationship with a wide ranging and diverse group of internal and external
stakeholders
- To attend, where required, multi-agency
meetings on behalf of the ICB with the Somerset County Council, CQC and other
key stakeholders
- To attend the sub groups of relevant boards
and partnerships related to safeguarding e.g. Somerset Safeguarding Adults
Board and Somerset Safeguarding Children Partnership and Safer Somerset Partnership
- To attend case debriefs, learning
reviews and learning events as relevant
- To provide safeguarding representation,
where required at Domestic Homicide Review, (DHR), panel meetings and support
the primary care contribution to these meetings through chronology analysis,
production of Individual Management Reports and identification of
recommendations for General Practice
- To contribute to the Quarterly Safeguarding Assurance
Report to the ICB Quality Committee
- To
work as a member of the ICB quality and nursing team to support wider assurance
and quality improvement work.
- To
provide safeguarding leadership, support and advice to primary care across the ICB
geographical area.
- To
contribute to patient involvement, engagement and involvement of at-risk
patients, relatives and advocates. Gain feedback in order to ensure services
and service improvements are patient centred and enhance equality.
Training
- Support
the development and delivery of Safeguarding Adults, Safeguarding Children,
Prevent, Mental Capacity, Deprivation of Liberty Safegurds, (DoLS), and Liberty
Protection Safeguards, (LPS), training packages to ICB staff
- Support
the development and delivery of Safeguarding Adults, Safeguarding Children,
Prevent, Mental Capacity, DoLS and LPS training packages to primary care
Staff
- Provide
primary care expertise to the ICB Strategic Safeguarding Team, the wider
Quality and Nursing Team and safeguarding partners.
- Attend
ICB meetings as necessary.
- To
perform, in a timely fashion, all administrative work related to the clinical
role as outlined above.
- To
work in accordance with all Local and National Safeguarding policies, procedures, and protocols
Please see additonal rsponsibilites on supporting documents
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- An understanding of current issues and policy development relating to the NHS
- Full registration, as maintained by General Medical Council
- Vocationally Trained GP
- Must be on the medical performers list
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- An understanding of current issues and policy development relating to safeguarding within the NHS
- Demonstrate a good working knowledge of all legislation, statutory guidance, policy and procedure for:
- Safeguarding Children
- Safeguarding Adults
- Domestic Abuse
- Prevent
- Mental Capacity Act
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards / Liberty Protection Safeguards
- Serious Violence
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in general practice as a GP Principal or salaried GP
- Experience of working in a safeguarding role
- Experience of managing and advising on safeguarding issues and an understanding of primary care contribution to case conferences and implementation of safeguarding plans
- Experience of and be able to work in a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working collaboratively with other health and social care providers, and wider partner agencies, and ability to promote strong working partnerships
- Experience of dealing with highly complex, sensitive and difficult situations
- Experience of dealing with emergency situations related to safeguarding to ensure patients are protected
- Experience of dealing with highly complex, sensitive and difficult situations
Desirable
- Experience of contributing to quality assurance frameworks
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- An understanding of current issues and policy development relating to the NHS
- Full registration, as maintained by General Medical Council
- Vocationally Trained GP
- Must be on the medical performers list
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- An understanding of current issues and policy development relating to safeguarding within the NHS
- Demonstrate a good working knowledge of all legislation, statutory guidance, policy and procedure for:
- Safeguarding Children
- Safeguarding Adults
- Domestic Abuse
- Prevent
- Mental Capacity Act
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards / Liberty Protection Safeguards
- Serious Violence
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in general practice as a GP Principal or salaried GP
- Experience of working in a safeguarding role
- Experience of managing and advising on safeguarding issues and an understanding of primary care contribution to case conferences and implementation of safeguarding plans
- Experience of and be able to work in a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working collaboratively with other health and social care providers, and wider partner agencies, and ability to promote strong working partnerships
- Experience of dealing with highly complex, sensitive and difficult situations
- Experience of dealing with emergency situations related to safeguarding to ensure patients are protected
- Experience of dealing with highly complex, sensitive and difficult situations
Desirable
- Experience of contributing to quality assurance frameworks
Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
