Safeguarding Manager
Tower Hamlets GP Care Group
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Job summary
Tower Hamlets GP Care Group is a fast-growing Community Interest Company providing NHS services to the population of Tower Hamlets and beyond. The Care Group is based across a culturally diverse population.
Due to changes and growth in service, we now have an exciting and unique opportunity to appoint a Safeguarding Manager (children and adults). We are looking for a dynamic, forward-thinking Safeguarding Manager to lead a small team of safeguarding professionals within the organisation.
The successful candidate can expect to work in a friendly and vibrant environment, they will have access to both informal and formal development opportunities.
The Care group has a flexible hybrid approach to working.
Main duties of the job
- Ensure effective safeguarding communication systems are in place across the organisation, liaising, supporting and advising multi-disciplinary/multi agency professionals and colleagues within NHS, Social Care and Independent Sector.
- Represent CPCG at local and national Partnerships/Boards and meetings on all matters relating to safeguarding across organisational / geographical boundaries.
- To provide assurance across the GPCG governance structures and to partnerships through Section 11 audits, safeguarding assurance framework and CQC standards.
- To provide leadership at all levels of the organisation, ensuring that the relevant corporate safeguarding objectives inform all aspects of decision making
- Chair committees relating to safeguarding, for and on behalf of GPCG, taking the lead for the internal Safeguarding Subcommittee.
- Lead the investigation and co-ordination of safeguarding incidents and investigations, working closely with the GPCG governance team to ensure that safeguarding investigations are properly conducted and the outcomes are fed into the organisations clinical governance process.
- Line manage the safeguarding team ensuring they are actively supported in career progression through appraisal and PDP processes. Equally, identify and address poor performance issues within the capability policies and procedures.
- Delegate work to the Named Nurses within sphere of practice.
About us
Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (the Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.
Read up more about Tower Hamlets here:http://www.towerhamlets.is/
The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.
The key priorities for the Care Group are:
- Innovation and support for primary care
- Being a great place to work
- Integrating primary and community care
- Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
- Influencing improvements in health outcomes
Date posted
03 May 2023
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£64,000 a year Circa
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Job share, Flexible working, Home or remote working
Reference number
E0136-23-0006
Job locations
Island Health
145 East Ferry Road
London
E14 3BQ
Employer details
Employer name
Tower Hamlets GP Care Group
Address
Island Health
145 East Ferry Road
London
E14 3BQ
Employer's website
https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)
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