Job summary
Mid & South Essex ICB is responsible for ensuring that safeguarding duties are incorporated within the ICB and all services that it commissions. Since 2022 we have developed a new all-age model for safeguarding that provides a unique approach to the delivery of NHS England - Safeguarding Child, Young People and Adults at Risk in the NHS: Accountability and Assurance Framework. This all-age approach acknowledges the impact of abuse, neglect and exploitation across the lifespan, the interdependencies of safeguarding in its widest concept and the diversity of the population we serve.
We want to recruit practitioners to join our team as Associate Designates Nurses, working under the guidance of Designated Lead Nurses Safeguarding to fulfil the ICBs statutory functions in all matters relating to safeguarding. If you are enthusiastic about thinking differently and new ways of working, then this may be the right job for you.
On this occasion, we would welcome applications from practitioners who have experience in Adult Safeguarding. As a member of the All-age Safeguarding Team, you will work collaboratively to forge effective working relationships with statutory partners in the delivery of strategic priorities.
Key responsibilities will include working alongside ICB and Provider Safeguarding Teams to ensure there are robust systems, policies and learning and development opportunities to enable healthcare staff to identify and respond to abuse and neglect across the health economy.
Main duties of the job
Hybrid working - Some working from home, our Basildon office and across Mid and South Essex.
We are looking for practitioners with an understanding of safeguarding strategic frameworks and governance processes at organisational and partnership levels. Whilst you may currently have strengths in either child or adult safeguarding, you will have the opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills in every aspect of the field.
The successful candidates will demonstrate an ability to:
- understand safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance.
- support the development and delivery of the All-age Safeguarding Strategy across the ICB/ICS.
- work across organisational and geographical boundaries representing within the ICB to meet the changing needs of our local population.
- contribute to setting a long-term strategy.
- manage difficult conversations, challenging situations and ensure agreed and credible actions are identified.
- deputise effectively for the Designated Lead Safeguarding Nurse, the Deputy, and Director of Nursing, when appropriate.
- contribute to the planning, delivery, and evaluation of All-age Safeguarding learning and development.
- identify and support the implementation of learning from safeguarding incidents and case reviews.
About us
Mid and South Essex ICB is a statutory organisation responsible for the planning and delivery of local health and care services, across Mid and South Essex and is part of the wider integrated care system. Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up services and to improve the health of people who live and work in their area. The headquarters for the organisation is Phoenix Court, Basildon, but there is a hybrid model of working, which includes working across Mid and South Essex and home working.
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that the different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We welcome applications regardless of peoples age, disability, sex, gender, identity and gender expression, sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, religion or belief. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustment for people who have a disability. We would also encourage applicants to raise any personal circumstances they would like us to be aware of so that we can consider possible adjustments.
Unfortunately, the organisation does not have a Sponsorship licence.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for full details.
ROLE PURPOSE / SUMMARY
The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS) will comprise the Integrated Care Board (ICB), which is the statutory body for the NHS, and the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), which is a committee of the ICB, and brings together key health, care, community and voluntary sector organisations across the area.
The ICS has a bold ambition to deliver improved outcomes for our 1.2m population through our four Alliances, and we are placing clinical and professional leadership and the voice of our residents at the heart of realizing this ambition.
The Associate Designated Nurse Safeguarding role sits within the All-age Safeguarding team and the Nursing and Quality Directorate.
The All-age Safeguarding Team leads on the discharge of the ICBs safeguarding statutory duties, roles and responsibilities set out in legislation and guidance, such as the Childrens Act 1989, the Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018, the Care Act 2014, and the Safeguarding children, young people, and adults at risk in the NHS - Safeguarding Accountability and Assurance framework (SAAF, 2022). The all-age approach to safeguarding acknowledges the impact of abuse and neglect across the lifespan, the interdependencies of safeguarding in its widest concept and the diversity of the population we serve.
The post holder will work in collaboration with a variety of healthcare and multiagency professionals in the delivery of the All-age safeguarding agenda.
This role is a supportive function to the strategic lead roles, supporting and following thedirection set by the Designated Lead Nurse Safeguarding in the discharge of the ICBs safeguarding statutory functions and the design and delivery of the ICBs All-age safeguarding strategy.
COMPETENCY BASED KEY DELIVERABLES
- Responsible and accountable for decisions made during the course of their duties, escalating significant issues where appropriate.
- Contribute to setting a long-term strategy, ensuring the aims and objectives of the organisation/system are embedded and progressively built upon within the setting of the strategy, as well as taking responsibility for the implementation of one or more plans which align to this strategy.
- Management of multiple members of staff.
- Responsible for one or more budgets and/or income streams of delivery
- Can demonstrate and deliver acute business acumen in their area of responsibility ensuring value for money, understanding the business of partners and the driving factors for delivery in multiple sectors.
- Can manage difficult conversations, challenging situations and ensure agreed and credible actions are identified.
- Can interpret large amounts of data and draw assumptions based on the data and make recommendations
- Understands the lines of accountability and governance and can deputise effectively for the Designated Lead Nurse Safeguarding and Deputy Director of Nursing for Safeguarding, when appropriate.
- Support the Designated Lead Nurse Safeguarding and Deputy Director of Nursing for Safeguarding to develop and deliver the All-age Safeguarding Strategy across the ICB/ICS and ensuring comprehensive and robust arrangements are in place and adhered to for safeguarding in the discharge of the ICBs statutory safeguarding functions. This will include ensuring the maintenance of safe and effective standards highlighted in local and national guidance and legislation.
- Support the Designated Lead Nurse Safeguarding in ensuring timely responses from healthcare Partners (including primary care) in relation to adult or child safeguarding reviews, or live investigations.
- Work closely with ICB practitioners, Primary Care staff and Provider Safeguarding teams in identifying need and providing expert clinical advice, training, supervision and support as appropriate.
- Contribute to the planning, delivery and evaluation of All-age Safeguarding training for health and multiagency practitioners. This will support the implementation of continuing development and integration of evidence-based safeguarding practice in local services.
- Will deputise for Designated Lead Nurse Safeguarding the when required in representing at Safeguarding Board / Partnership subgroups, providing the necessary input, including advice on health and safeguarding matters, policy and guidance development and implementation, development of reports, chronologies, advice on recommendations and actions relating to safeguarding investigations, rapid reviews and audits. This will also include working alongside Primary Care practitioners in providing their input to the subgroups.
- Able to work across organisational and geographical boundaries to ensure safeguarding issues are represented at every level of health organisations activity.
- Working with other teams across the Nursing and Quality Directorate, the ICB and the ICS to support safeguarding input and the delivery of safeguarding agenda across relevant workstreams.
- The post holder is unlikely to have any direct patient care but is expected to maintain professional registration and specialised clinical knowledge.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for full details.
ROLE PURPOSE / SUMMARY
The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS) will comprise the Integrated Care Board (ICB), which is the statutory body for the NHS, and the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), which is a committee of the ICB, and brings together key health, care, community and voluntary sector organisations across the area.
The ICS has a bold ambition to deliver improved outcomes for our 1.2m population through our four Alliances, and we are placing clinical and professional leadership and the voice of our residents at the heart of realizing this ambition.
The Associate Designated Nurse Safeguarding role sits within the All-age Safeguarding team and the Nursing and Quality Directorate.
The All-age Safeguarding Team leads on the discharge of the ICBs safeguarding statutory duties, roles and responsibilities set out in legislation and guidance, such as the Childrens Act 1989, the Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018, the Care Act 2014, and the Safeguarding children, young people, and adults at risk in the NHS - Safeguarding Accountability and Assurance framework (SAAF, 2022). The all-age approach to safeguarding acknowledges the impact of abuse and neglect across the lifespan, the interdependencies of safeguarding in its widest concept and the diversity of the population we serve.
The post holder will work in collaboration with a variety of healthcare and multiagency professionals in the delivery of the All-age safeguarding agenda.
This role is a supportive function to the strategic lead roles, supporting and following thedirection set by the Designated Lead Nurse Safeguarding in the discharge of the ICBs safeguarding statutory functions and the design and delivery of the ICBs All-age safeguarding strategy.
COMPETENCY BASED KEY DELIVERABLES
- Responsible and accountable for decisions made during the course of their duties, escalating significant issues where appropriate.
- Contribute to setting a long-term strategy, ensuring the aims and objectives of the organisation/system are embedded and progressively built upon within the setting of the strategy, as well as taking responsibility for the implementation of one or more plans which align to this strategy.
- Management of multiple members of staff.
- Responsible for one or more budgets and/or income streams of delivery
- Can demonstrate and deliver acute business acumen in their area of responsibility ensuring value for money, understanding the business of partners and the driving factors for delivery in multiple sectors.
- Can manage difficult conversations, challenging situations and ensure agreed and credible actions are identified.
- Can interpret large amounts of data and draw assumptions based on the data and make recommendations
- Understands the lines of accountability and governance and can deputise effectively for the Designated Lead Nurse Safeguarding and Deputy Director of Nursing for Safeguarding, when appropriate.
- Support the Designated Lead Nurse Safeguarding and Deputy Director of Nursing for Safeguarding to develop and deliver the All-age Safeguarding Strategy across the ICB/ICS and ensuring comprehensive and robust arrangements are in place and adhered to for safeguarding in the discharge of the ICBs statutory safeguarding functions. This will include ensuring the maintenance of safe and effective standards highlighted in local and national guidance and legislation.
- Support the Designated Lead Nurse Safeguarding in ensuring timely responses from healthcare Partners (including primary care) in relation to adult or child safeguarding reviews, or live investigations.
- Work closely with ICB practitioners, Primary Care staff and Provider Safeguarding teams in identifying need and providing expert clinical advice, training, supervision and support as appropriate.
- Contribute to the planning, delivery and evaluation of All-age Safeguarding training for health and multiagency practitioners. This will support the implementation of continuing development and integration of evidence-based safeguarding practice in local services.
- Will deputise for Designated Lead Nurse Safeguarding the when required in representing at Safeguarding Board / Partnership subgroups, providing the necessary input, including advice on health and safeguarding matters, policy and guidance development and implementation, development of reports, chronologies, advice on recommendations and actions relating to safeguarding investigations, rapid reviews and audits. This will also include working alongside Primary Care practitioners in providing their input to the subgroups.
- Able to work across organisational and geographical boundaries to ensure safeguarding issues are represented at every level of health organisations activity.
- Working with other teams across the Nursing and Quality Directorate, the ICB and the ICS to support safeguarding input and the delivery of safeguarding agenda across relevant workstreams.
- The post holder is unlikely to have any direct patient care but is expected to maintain professional registration and specialised clinical knowledge.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant Masters degree or extensive knowledge, skills and experience to equivalent level OR Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience
- Evidence of continuing personal development
- Professional Registration (NMC)
- Project Management Qualification or equivalent level of experience OR Management qualification or equivalent level of on-the-job experience
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working at a senior level in the specialism of Safeguarding
- Experience of leading, managing and delivering significant change projects involving stakeholders
- Experience of managing complex information, handling correspondence/queries which may be highly complex, sensitive or highly confidential
- Experience of negotiation with senior stakeholders which may include difficult and controversial issues, presenting complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Able to recognise direction and implications of policy and the potentially competing priorities/interest.
- Experience of leading, managing, developing, influencing and inspiring staff
- Previous experience providing supervision to staff in relation to safeguarding
- Experience of completing investigations relating to patient safety and safeguarding
Knowledge / understanding
Essential
- Advanced knowledge of relevant systems, legislation and procedures relating to Adult, Children and Look after Children safeguarding
- In depth understanding of policies and practices within safeguarding.
- An in-depth understanding of health care provision and awareness of current NHS policies and priorities
- Commissioning processes and the role of Integrated care boards / system
- Current understanding safeguarding board / partnership function, roles and responsibilities
- Knowledge of the process of information gathering for safeguarding investigation reviews, chronologies and gap analysis
Partnership Working / Leadership Management
Essential
- Can demonstrate partnership working and the understanding of how and when partnerships should be built, navigating and understanding local, regional and national political positions in order to solutions that span across multiple stakeholders
- Provide effective, inclusive and compassionate leadership across own areas of responsibility, ensuring all voices are heard and creating and nurturing a culture where staff feel safe to speak up
- Challenges within areas of responsibility and escalates appropriately where these principles are at risk of not being upheld
- Able to persuade and influence in areas of conflict
- Ability to work as part of a team or independently
- Takes personal responsibility for actions and their impact
- Ability to work in a collaborative way across organisational/sector boundaries in order to achieve the highest quality outcomes for patients
- Ability to support strategic thinking in discussions by being aware of the bigger picture
Skills
Essential
- Can demonstrate partnership working and the understanding of how and when partnerships should be built, navigating and understanding local, regional and national political positions in order to solutions that span across multiple stakeholders
- Provide effective, inclusive and compassionate leadership across own areas of responsibility, ensuring all voices are heard and creating and nurturing a culture where staff feel safe to speak up
- Challenges within areas of responsibility and escalates appropriately where these principles are at risk of not being upheld
- Able to persuade and influence in areas of conflict
- Ability to work as part of a team or independently
- Takes personal responsibility for actions and their impact
- Ability to work in a collaborative way across organisational/sector boundaries in order to achieve the highest quality outcomes for patients
- Ability to support strategic thinking in discussions by being aware of the bigger picture
Other
Essential
- Demonstrable ability to influence and command respect and establish credibility quickly
- Personal attributes include emotional intelligence, resilience, agility and flexibility, able to respond to competing demands as they arise
- Requirement to spend significant amounts of time inputting at a keyboard or reviewing computer information via the VDU
- Ability to travel to attend meetings and attend for work at several locations, including home and the Basildon Office for the purpose of hybrid working
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant Masters degree or extensive knowledge, skills and experience to equivalent level OR Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience
- Evidence of continuing personal development
- Professional Registration (NMC)
- Project Management Qualification or equivalent level of experience OR Management qualification or equivalent level of on-the-job experience
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working at a senior level in the specialism of Safeguarding
- Experience of leading, managing and delivering significant change projects involving stakeholders
- Experience of managing complex information, handling correspondence/queries which may be highly complex, sensitive or highly confidential
- Experience of negotiation with senior stakeholders which may include difficult and controversial issues, presenting complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Able to recognise direction and implications of policy and the potentially competing priorities/interest.
- Experience of leading, managing, developing, influencing and inspiring staff
- Previous experience providing supervision to staff in relation to safeguarding
- Experience of completing investigations relating to patient safety and safeguarding
Knowledge / understanding
Essential
- Advanced knowledge of relevant systems, legislation and procedures relating to Adult, Children and Look after Children safeguarding
- In depth understanding of policies and practices within safeguarding.
- An in-depth understanding of health care provision and awareness of current NHS policies and priorities
- Commissioning processes and the role of Integrated care boards / system
- Current understanding safeguarding board / partnership function, roles and responsibilities
- Knowledge of the process of information gathering for safeguarding investigation reviews, chronologies and gap analysis
Partnership Working / Leadership Management
Essential
- Can demonstrate partnership working and the understanding of how and when partnerships should be built, navigating and understanding local, regional and national political positions in order to solutions that span across multiple stakeholders
- Provide effective, inclusive and compassionate leadership across own areas of responsibility, ensuring all voices are heard and creating and nurturing a culture where staff feel safe to speak up
- Challenges within areas of responsibility and escalates appropriately where these principles are at risk of not being upheld
- Able to persuade and influence in areas of conflict
- Ability to work as part of a team or independently
- Takes personal responsibility for actions and their impact
- Ability to work in a collaborative way across organisational/sector boundaries in order to achieve the highest quality outcomes for patients
- Ability to support strategic thinking in discussions by being aware of the bigger picture
Skills
Essential
- Can demonstrate partnership working and the understanding of how and when partnerships should be built, navigating and understanding local, regional and national political positions in order to solutions that span across multiple stakeholders
- Provide effective, inclusive and compassionate leadership across own areas of responsibility, ensuring all voices are heard and creating and nurturing a culture where staff feel safe to speak up
- Challenges within areas of responsibility and escalates appropriately where these principles are at risk of not being upheld
- Able to persuade and influence in areas of conflict
- Ability to work as part of a team or independently
- Takes personal responsibility for actions and their impact
- Ability to work in a collaborative way across organisational/sector boundaries in order to achieve the highest quality outcomes for patients
- Ability to support strategic thinking in discussions by being aware of the bigger picture
Other
Essential
- Demonstrable ability to influence and command respect and establish credibility quickly
- Personal attributes include emotional intelligence, resilience, agility and flexibility, able to respond to competing demands as they arise
- Requirement to spend significant amounts of time inputting at a keyboard or reviewing computer information via the VDU
- Ability to travel to attend meetings and attend for work at several locations, including home and the Basildon Office for the purpose of hybrid working
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
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Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
