Head of Safeguarding

2 months ago

Preston, United Kingdom Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

You will join our senior clinical leadership team and be a champion of this dynamic portfolio whilst having the skills to engage colleagues across the organisation in meaningful safeguarding activity.

You will have a strong safeguarding background and be a forward thinking, enthusiastic and motivated Nurse, Midwife or AHP with a passion for learning and improving outcomes.

You will have effective presentation and highly developed communication skills, alongside effective report writing and decision making skills.

The Head of Safeguarding will lead the provision of safeguarding services including mental health, learning disability, autism and dementia specialist services and have the ability to deliver the strategies for each of these areas.

In return, you will be supported to develop personally and professionally, work with some fabulous colleagues in a culture that is committed to listening and learning.

We have 9000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
- Lead the Children’s, Maternity and Adults Safeguarding services providing leadership and direction to Named Professionals and safeguarding leads within the Trust.
- Lead the Safeguarding Service across the organisation, working with key internal and external stakeholders to deliver a comprehensive and cohesive safe and effective safeguarding service for the Trust.
- Provide professional leadership in the co-ordination, monitoring and evaluation of all aspects of the safeguarding children and ‘adults at risk’ services.
- To provide expert level of knowledge, leadership and professional advice in relation to safeguarding vulnerable children and adults at risk, using lessons learnt from national and local case reviews, best practice evidence and research.
- Provide visible, accessible and authoritative presence within the Trust in regard to Safeguarding Children, MARAC, Domestic Abuse and Harmful Practices, Adults at Risk, Mental Capacity, Deprivation of Liberties, PREVENT, and Child Sexual Exploitation.
- Ensure robust processes are in place to enable the Trust to participate in case reviews (Serious Case reviews, Safeguarding Adults Reviews, Practice Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews) from initial scoping, management review and analysis through to the development, implementation and monitoring of action plans.
- To be responsible for implementation, maintenance and development of effective and efficient systems for the detection, prevention, surveillance, investigation and control of harm and abuse in partnership with multi-disciplinary Safeguarding teams.
- To lead the Trust safeguarding meetings, ensuring the Trust safeguarding committee is fully informed about both agendas and issues arising from these.
- To ensure all governance and risk associated with the Safeguarding agenda is identified and mitigation is in place to minimise risk.
- To ensure compliance with the key performance indicators for the service.
- Responsible for operational management of Safeguarding named and lead professionals.
- A high degree of effective communication, networking and liaison will be required to establish and maintain good working relationships and networks within the health economy and other agencies.
- To provide to and receive from others highly specialist, complex and highly sensitive information in relation to safeguarding vulnerable adults and children to senior managers, external agencies and staff within a variety of contexts and situations.
- Be the responsible lead for learning disability, autism and mental health within the organisation.
- Become a LeDer trained reviewer and work with the mortality and end of life care board and clinical leads to ensure care for mental health, autism and learning disabilities is delivered with a person centred approach.
- Lead on a number of corporate areas of responsibility to be determined as organisational needs.

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