Safeguarding Adult Practitioner

7 months ago


Harlow, United Kingdom The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust Full time

The Safeguarding Specialist role is an exciting opportunity to develop your professional practice, and leadership skills

This role will support the adults safeguarding agenda but the ethos of our Safeguarding Team is that all specialists cross-cover in the absence of colleagues, so you should expect to develop a working knowledge of other safeguarding sub-specialities.
- To be a clinician for safeguarding in the Trust working in collaboration with the safeguarding team
- Provide visible, accessible clinical safeguarding support in all areas of the Trust where adults are patients.
- Support the team in the Provision data to clinical divisions on a monthly basis to guide their clinical practice and inform management decisions.
- Provide Trust wide advice and consultation on all aspects of safeguarding including Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- Coordinate with other safeguarding specialists
- Produce chronologies for all Serious Adult Reviews, Multi-Agency Reviews and serious incidents and co-produce chronologies for Domestic Homicide Reviews with Safeguarding Specialist in Domestic Abuse.
- Conduct oneself in a professional manner and be a role model to less experienced/ non registered and new staff at all times

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
Patient at heart
- Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence
- Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration
- Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

Duties and responsibilities

Patient care
- Demonstrate and promote a Think Family style of safeguarding practice.
- Model and promote compassionate persistence and professional curiosity in all interactions with staff, patients and professionals from other agencies.
- Monitor and develop standards of MCA assessment through the support of practice, clinical audit and adoption of evidence-based practice.
- Participate in Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings where mental capacity concerns have been raised to aid effective patient care planning, which will include taking an active role in team meetings, case conferences and specialist interest group meetings.
- Either working alone or as part of the multi-disciplinary team, make recommendations for appropriate and timely discharge/transfer from hospital
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers highly complex, sensitive or distressing information, with an emphasis on giving each individual patient as much choice and control over decisions about their life as possible
- Maintain clear, accurate and concise records in line with departmental and professional standards and include relevant outcome measures.
- Provide specialised advice to ensure high quality standards of patient care and patient safety
- Maintain patient and staff confidentiality at all times

Professional practice
- Develop and maintain close interagency working with all partner agencies, both statutory and voluntary.
- Adhere to the NMC/HCPC code of practice at all times and operate within the NMC/HCPC scope of professional practice.
- Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of accountability, responsibility and Duty of Care and work towards the provision of support and education for less experienced and nonregistered staff on the implications for practice.

Leadership and management
- Deputise for the Safeguarding Adult Nurse
- Comply with Trust and Departmental policies and procedures e.g. Health and Safety at Work Act (1974), Manual Handling, clinical equipment competency, risk management, Data Protection Acts and patient confidentiality at all times.

This will include demonstrating compliance with the terms of all safeguarding policies and processes relevant to the safeguarding of adults and children in the care of Princess Alexandra Hospital and to undergo regular mandatory training con



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