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
Job description
Job responsibilities
The purpose of the role is to ensure that the Trust
fulfils its statutory duties to safeguard children and adults at risk, with whom it has contact in the course of
providing GP Care Group (GPCG) services.
The Post
holder will play a key role in the delivery of the safeguarding agenda
throughout GP Care Group in accordance
with national and local guidance and legislation. They will be responsible for
ensuring that comprehensive and robust arrangements are in place for
safeguarding children and adults at risk in all services.
The post-holder will take the role of Mental Capacity Act (2005) Lead and the Prevent
Lead for and on behalf of GPCG. They will champion the safeguarding
agenda within GPCG providing expert knowledge and advice. They will lead the
safeguarding team and ensure that safeguarding training, supervision and
specialist help is available to frontline clinical staff.
They will Promote
excellence in clinical practice of safeguarding children, young people and
adults at risk processes and act as
the clinical expert in the field of safeguarding and work closely with the
strategic safeguarding leads of the two main Local Authorities areas in which
it provides services (Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest) and TNW & City and Hackney CCG to provide assurance
with compliance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The purpose of the role is to ensure that the Trust
fulfils its statutory duties to safeguard children and adults at risk, with whom it has contact in the course of
providing GP Care Group (GPCG) services.
The Post
holder will play a key role in the delivery of the safeguarding agenda
throughout GP Care Group in accordance
with national and local guidance and legislation. They will be responsible for
ensuring that comprehensive and robust arrangements are in place for
safeguarding children and adults at risk in all services.
The post-holder will take the role of Mental Capacity Act (2005) Lead and the Prevent
Lead for and on behalf of GPCG. They will champion the safeguarding
agenda within GPCG providing expert knowledge and advice. They will lead the
safeguarding team and ensure that safeguarding training, supervision and
specialist help is available to frontline clinical staff.
They will Promote
excellence in clinical practice of safeguarding children, young people and
adults at risk processes and act as
the clinical expert in the field of safeguarding and work closely with the
strategic safeguarding leads of the two main Local Authorities areas in which
it provides services (Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest) and TNW & City and Hackney CCG to provide assurance
with compliance.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse/Registered Sick childrens Nurse/SCPHN (Health Visiting/School Nursing or equivalent).
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Highly effective verbal and written communication skills.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of effective leadership.
Qualification
Essential
- Developed specialist knowledge of safeguarding and clinical issues at masters level (can be acquired through significant experience/ in role.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Analyses highly complex safeguarding situation in which there may be several different parts and there is no clear solution.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse/Registered Sick childrens Nurse/SCPHN (Health Visiting/School Nursing or equivalent).
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Highly effective verbal and written communication skills.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of effective leadership.
Qualification
Essential
- Developed specialist knowledge of safeguarding and clinical issues at masters level (can be acquired through significant experience/ in role.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Analyses highly complex safeguarding situation in which there may be several different parts and there is no clear solution.
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).
