Deputy Designated Lead/Nurse for Safeguarding AdultsNHS

Job summary

The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of the expected functions of the role working with the Designated Safeguarding Adult lead and other safeguarding colleagues within Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Cluster Integrated Care Board to provide expert advice, action and support to promote the effective safeguarding of adults across Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, ensuring the ICB is compliant with all legislation, directions and guidance.

The postholder is an expert practitioner in all aspects of safeguarding Adults. The post holder will work within a supportive team and will report to the Designated Professional Adult Safeguarding, ensuring there is service cover for the Designate role and wider team.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will ensure there is effective adult safeguarding practice as stipulated in primary legislation and underpinned in Government strategy and national, regional and local guidance, procedures and standards. The role is aligned closely with the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Cluster Integrated Care Board Safeguarding Partnerships (Safeguarding Adult Boards) to continually improve safeguarding arrangements across the health economy, in partnership with a range of agencies and services. It also involves working within the local statutory safeguarding partnerships governance and structures. The post holder will work with the Designated Professional Adult Safeguarding, named nurses, named doctors, GPs and other named professionals across Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent to take forward the safeguarding agenda with a focus on evidencing improved outcomes for adults with care and support needs and continual improvement in practice.

The postholder is required to develop expertise in the field and provide judgements on situations which have unique characteristics and where there are a number of complicated aspects to take into account which do not have obvious solutions. Supervision support will aid this function.

Job description

To provide clinical leadership, expert advice and support on safeguarding matters to the relevant ICB Boards, commissioners, and practitioners across the ICB including those not directly employed, e.g. GPs, their practice staff and other independent contractors.

To work in close liaison with the designated and named professionals within commissioning, health providers, social care, statutory and voluntary agencies to develop joint systems for communication and the delivery of safeguarding services.

To provide expertise and advice on legal matters within the scope of professional knowledge, liaising with legal representatives for advice as appropriate.

To provide clinical leadership where appropriate in respect of high risk and/or complex cases to named nurses and doctors in relevant provider organisations.

To promote awareness of safeguarding issues through the dissemination of current evidence and research via safeguarding governance and named professionals meetings.

To be responsible for ensuring that comprehensive and robust arrangements are in place for safeguarding adults in all commissioned services, including primary, community, secondary and independent care.

To champion best practice regarding the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, supporting processes and statutory systems for the delivery of the requirements of the law.

To provide expertise in the field of Safeguarding Adults including Deprivation of Liberty and Mental Capacity Act.

To have a thorough understanding of the Prevent Duty and Channel Panel processes. To support provider organisations in the completion of their Prevent Duties and support the wider system approach to the Prevent Duty

To identify, take responsibility and action to meet the wider health and social care needs of adults at risk across Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent - this will include cross-organisational and partnership working at both strategic and operational level and will include leading safeguarding adult initiatives across the health economy, working closely with other safeguarding leads.

To represent the ICB on the local Partnership boards and sub-groups where required and provide advice and updates on all matters relating to safeguarding adults..

About us

The Shropshire Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent NHS Integrated Care Board (ICB) is responsible for planning functions; managing the NHS budget and arranging the provision of health services in the geographical area.

Location: Home based/hybrid working.

New starters are expected to collect IT equipment, from offices in Stoke-on-Trent, and if working from home are required to have appropriate desk/chair/ relevant equipment in compliance with DSE regulations.

Posts at Band 8c and above, will take part in the On-call rota, flexible over 7 days, supporting the System Control Centre, with full training provided.

Unconscious Bias/Invisible Disability Training and Equality Induction are mandatory.

Interviews may take place via MS Teams or in person.

We promote a compassionate and inclusive environment and welcome applications from a diverse pool of talent and backgrounds. All individuals are valued and given every opportunity to succeed based on merit.

The ICB embrace the principles of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and encourages applications from all individuals regardless of their age, disability, gender re-assignment, marital or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, sex or sexual orientation. It's important that our workforce reflects the diversity of communities as much as possible.

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