Lead for Safeguarding Adults

2 weeks ago


Colchester, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This is an exciting opportunity for someone to join the Colchester Hospital ‘Safeguarding and Complex Health Team’ which is comprised of:

- Safeguarding Adults
- Safeguarding Children & the Unborn
- Learning Disabilities
- Dementia
- Children & Young Persons Mental Health

We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and innovative individual with experience of safeguarding adults.

Our team offers a Mon-Fri 9-5pm service.

The successful post holder will be a highly visible experienced practitioner, providing specialist knowledge, advice and clinical expertise to all staff in the hospital in all areas of Safeguarding Adults.

You will be a member of the ESNEFT Safeguarding Families & Complex Health Team and will enable a holistic approach to the care of adults at risk of abuse/neglect in delivering safeguarding advice, support, training and supervision.

Along with being responsible for providing effective and timely flow of information between the hospital/community and other agencies as appropriate.

The Safeguarding Families & Complex Health Team have a robust audit programme which the post holder will participate in. They will also be assisting in the co-ordination and contribute to inter-professional training in safeguarding adults across the Trust and will be expected to deputise for the Head of Safeguarding Families as required.
- To be a highly visible senior practitioner, providing specialist knowledge and advice expertise to all staff in Colchester Hospital in all areas of Safeguarding Adults.
- To promote the safeguarding of adults at risk within Colchester & Tendring Community.
- To promote high quality and evidence based improvements in service delivery
- To overcome staff and public barriers to understanding around the area of safeguarding adults at risk including domestic abuse and the assessment of mental capacity.
- To promote the message that ‘safeguarding is everyone’s business’, sharing best practice and lessons learnt.
- To support the Local Authorities and other partners in their delivery of their statutory safeguarding responsibilities and priorities
- Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects/audits, services and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise.
- To work collaboratively with the multi-agency partners
- To deputise for the Head of Safeguarding Families as required.

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

Professional Practice-Safeguarding underpins work in all aspects of this role
- Promote autonomy in practice encouraging community staff to become confident in decision making regarding the Safeguarding of Adults, further developing their skill’s which will improve the delivery of care.
- Identify concerns and identify areas for improvements as required
- To maintain and develop own clinical expertise and follow East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Safeguarding Procedures in respect of the safety and welfare of Adults.
- To actively participate in regular safeguarding supervision in line with the Organisation’s supervision policy.
- To participate in internal and external Safeguarding Adult Reviews/Domestic Homicide Reviews/Independent Management Reviews with the support of the Head of Safeguarding Families.
- To complete statutory requests for information/investigations/reports such as Channel Panel/Section 42 enquiries.
- To participate in adult safeguarding meetings eg Strategy; Professionals; safeguarding case conferences as required.
- Support operational teams in the development and completion of actions plans and implementation of learning from safeguarding incidents and investigations.
- Support the completion of Safeguarding Families & Complex Health Team reports.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.


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