Job summary
Our Safeguarding team is committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse. We have a new opportunity for one whole time equivalent All-age Safeguarding Deputy Designate role to join our team.
Main duties of the job
To excel in this role, you will need to be an inclusive leader with well-developed communication skills and the ability to see situations from different perspectives.
You should possess excellent time management and organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities.
A thorough understanding of relevant legislation and current policy requirement is essential, as you will be part of the team providing safeguarding expertise to the wider system partners.
Experience in leading quality improvement projects and the ability to take a system wide approach to leading collaborative change across health systems are crucial. Your managerial skills should enable you to lead and motivate the team including the ability to coach and mentor them for career progression.
Case reviews emphasize the importance of having effective supervision. Excellent supervision skills are necessary as you will be expected to develop and provide a range of supervision approaches. A key priority will be the prevention of abuse and neglect through the development of a safeguarding supervision approach at system level.
You must have a valid NMC or HCPC registration and a master's level education or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in safeguarding or be willing to undertake learning at master's level.
About us
We can offer you:
The opportunity to contribute to a service that makes a difference to people's lives. Our main priority is to prevent the abuse and neglect that affects the most vulnerable in our population. We are system leaders in this and our work is tactical and strategic. This post will give you the opportunity to work across Health and Social Care, representing the NHS community and working with other Healthcare Leads to assure safeguarding effectiveness at organisation and system level and to lead change.
As an All-Age Professional, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge within adult, children and young people services.
The role is an "hybrid role" this means you will both work from home as well as attend the office base in one or more of the BSW ICB locality offices / workspaces as the job requires.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As the Deputy Designated Professional for All-Age Safeguarding, you will work closely with the Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children and Designated Nurse/Professional for Safeguarding Adults to deliver the strategic work programme for the ICB Safeguarding Team. Your role will involve taking a system wide approach to drive collaborative and collective change across the system multi-agency and across NHS-funded services.
You will provide group supervision to Named Professionals across the BSW system and manage ICB specialist practitioners within the three ICB localities. As an experienced leader, you will line manage a small team and take responsibility for recruiting, inducting, supervising, coaching and developing team members.
You will deputise for the Designated Nurse/Professional regularly at both internal and external partnership meetings. You would be expected to demonstrate level 5 competencies applying the associated knowledge, skills and behaviour whilst representing the ICB and the wider Health system as a Deputy Designate.
In this strategic leadership role, you will confidently chair and lead local and regional subgroups for safeguarding arrangements, aiming to drive improvements in the quality of care and safeguarding practice. You will lead quality improvement projects applying a structured change management approach and methodology for the impact of change. Using your safeguarding expertise, you will contribute to statutory safeguarding reviews and oversee the learning from these reviews for children, young people and adults.
As part of the ICBs system safeguarding expert, you will provide expert safeguarding advice to our partners around individual patients/cases when required.
Given the nature of this role, you will deal with highly confidential, sensitive, and distressing information about children, young people, adults with care and support needs and vulnerable populations. Support through supervision is provided.
Please refer to full job description for more details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As the Deputy Designated Professional for All-Age Safeguarding, you will work closely with the Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children and Designated Nurse/Professional for Safeguarding Adults to deliver the strategic work programme for the ICB Safeguarding Team. Your role will involve taking a system wide approach to drive collaborative and collective change across the system multi-agency and across NHS-funded services.
You will provide group supervision to Named Professionals across the BSW system and manage ICB specialist practitioners within the three ICB localities. As an experienced leader, you will line manage a small team and take responsibility for recruiting, inducting, supervising, coaching and developing team members.
You will deputise for the Designated Nurse/Professional regularly at both internal and external partnership meetings. You would be expected to demonstrate level 5 competencies applying the associated knowledge, skills and behaviour whilst representing the ICB and the wider Health system as a Deputy Designate.
In this strategic leadership role, you will confidently chair and lead local and regional subgroups for safeguarding arrangements, aiming to drive improvements in the quality of care and safeguarding practice. You will lead quality improvement projects applying a structured change management approach and methodology for the impact of change. Using your safeguarding expertise, you will contribute to statutory safeguarding reviews and oversee the learning from these reviews for children, young people and adults.
As part of the ICBs system safeguarding expert, you will provide expert safeguarding advice to our partners around individual patients/cases when required.
Given the nature of this role, you will deal with highly confidential, sensitive, and distressing information about children, young people, adults with care and support needs and vulnerable populations. Support through supervision is provided.
Please refer to full job description for more details.
Person Specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential
- Valid Professional registration with a professional body with a Health registration - NMC / HCPC.
- Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Must have a working knowledge of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement .
- Should understand the relationship between the Department of Health and Social Care, the ICB and individual provider and other commissioning organisations
- A working knowledge of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, the Children's Act, 1989 and 2004, Working Together 2023 and, other related legislation and current policy requirements.
Communication Skills
Essential
- Must be able to provide and receive complex, sensitive, or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups .
- Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
Analytical
Essential
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands .
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options .
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise .
Planning & Management Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate capability to plan over short, medium, and long -term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others
- Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
Autonomy Freedom to Act
Essential
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/ Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy. Experience of researching best practice (globally, private, and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation)
Person Specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential
- Valid Professional registration with a professional body with a Health registration - NMC / HCPC.
- Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Must have a working knowledge of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement .
- Should understand the relationship between the Department of Health and Social Care, the ICB and individual provider and other commissioning organisations
- A working knowledge of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, the Children's Act, 1989 and 2004, Working Together 2023 and, other related legislation and current policy requirements.
Communication Skills
Essential
- Must be able to provide and receive complex, sensitive, or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups .
- Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
Analytical
Essential
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands .
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options .
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise .
Planning & Management Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate capability to plan over short, medium, and long -term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others
- Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
Autonomy Freedom to Act
Essential
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/ Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy. Experience of researching best practice (globally, private, and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation)
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).
Employer details
Employer name
NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB
Address
Jenner House, Chippenham
Jenner House
Chippenham
SN15 1GG
Employer's website
https://bsw.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)