Adult Safeguarding Advisor

5 months ago

London, United Kingdom Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Full time

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced registered Healthcare Professional with to join the Lewisham & Greenwich Adult Safeguarding Team to provide safeguarding support to all our services over two sites - the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Site in Woolwich and the University Hospital Lewisham Site in Lewisham. The Adult Safeguarding Team is a growing and progressive team that provides support, knowledge and experience to ensure that the Trust meets its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of adults at risk.

The successful applicant will be responsible for providing specialist advice to our staff, services and service users on adult safeguarding issues and concerns. The Team is a point of contact for raising concerns when it is believed an adult may be at risk of abuse. The role requires excellent partnership working with the relevant Local Authorities and other Multi Agency Partners to ensure adults at risk are protected and safeguarded.

The post also includes supporting staff in adherence to the Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Framework, Prevent, domestic violence (including MARAC), proportionate restraint / restriction, best interest and learning disabilities.

To provide advice and support to all staff regarding the safeguarding of adults at risk, including response and prevention.

To maintain a high clinical presence to assist with the recognition of adult at risk safeguarding issues and recognising vulnerable adults that may require protection from harm / abuse.

To be the first point of contact within the Trust if a safeguarding concern is raised via
the Trust safeguarding alert process.

To undertake an initial review when a safeguarding alert has been raised and establish if the alert is a safeguarding issue and further action is required to ensure the safety / protection of the adult at risk.

To ensure the safeguarding alert is referred to the relevant Adult Social Care agency (as the lead agency for safeguarding adults at risk) and to work in partnership to maintain the safety and protection of the adult at risk.

To attend safeguarding strategy discussions, strategy meetings, best interest meetings or case conferences in relation to an adult safeguarding concern.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

As an organisation, we’ve made significant improvements for patients and staff in the last two and-a-half years. This is reflected in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection (from February 2020), which found improvements across the organisation and gave us an improved rating of “Good” in the Well-Led and Effective domains, in addition to the rating of “Good” that we had already achieved in the Caring domain. Our staff culture change programme has been key to the Trust’s improvement journey, as we’ve stabilised our workforce by reducing vacancy rates and improving staff retention. We’ve also significantly increased the representation of minority ethnic leaders across our clinical and corporate teams.

To provide advice and support to all staff regarding the safeguarding of adults at risk, including response and prevention.

To maintain a high clinical presence to assist with the recognition of adult at risk safeguarding issues and recognising vulnerable adults that may require protection from harm / abuse.

To be the first point of contact within the Trust if a safeguarding concern is raised via the Trust safeguarding alert process.

To undertake an initial review when a safeguarding alert has been raised and establish if the alert is a safeguarding issue and further action is required to ensure the safety / protection of the adult at risk.

To ensure the safeguarding alert is referred to the relevant Adult Social Care agency (as the lead agency for safeguarding adults at risk) and to work in partnership to maintain the safety and protection of the adult at risk.

To attend safeguarding strategy discussions, strategy meetings, best interest meetings or case conferences in relation to an adult safeguarding concern.

To undertake or facilitate any safeguarding investigations within the agreed timescales and prove progress updates to Adult Social Care.

To be a lead for co-ordinating adult safeguarding case management and internal management reviews as required.

To advise on matters relating to the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty (DOLs), working with colleagues to collectively ensure knowledge and compliance across the Trust.

To ensure the accurate completion of urgent Deprivation of Liberty a

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