Associate Director

Reporting to the Deputy Director of Nursing, you will take a strategic lead and be responsible for owning and driving the safeguarding and LeDeR functions. The post holder will support the Chief Nursing Officer who is the executive safeguarding lead for the ICB, in fulfilling the statutory duties for the organisation for safeguarding adults and children, (including Looked After Children) and will act as their deputy/delegated partner as required in safeguarding matters.

The Associate Director - Nursing & Quality (Designate Nurse for Safeguarding Adults and Children) will be fundamental for ensuring embedding of governance and learning systems across Herefordshire and Worcestershire. The post holder will provide robust visible professional leadership to the ICB, the health economy and the wider health and social care footprint offering strategic, professional and specialist advice to colleagues.

The Associate Director - Nursing & Quality (Designate Nurse for Safeguarding Adults and Children) will provide strategic input and senior representation and leadership on at Multi-Agency meetings/ICB meetings as required. You will be responsible for producing and presenting high quality, accurate reports to boards, committee’s and other meetings of the ICB as required, ensuring accuracy and attention to detail.

You will have a proven track record of consistently achieving high standards and delivering on objectives.

Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB and its partners work collaboratively to commission, plan, monitor, deliver and improve health and care services for over 806,000 people across two counties and surrounding boundaries. With a workforce of over 300 employees and a budget of £1.19 billion to commission hospital, community and mental health services, it is a dynamic, forward-looking and vibrant place to work, set within the backdrop of some of the country's most beautiful countryside.

We provide a supportive and collaborative environment, offering opportunities for our staff to reach their full potential and develop a rewarding career. We enable our employees to achieve a positive work-life balance through a blend of collaborative workplace attendance combined with regular home working. Joining our inclusive and innovative team comes with a range of attractive benefits including:
Employee Assistance Programmes and access to a wealth of on-line health and wellbeing support
Competitive NHS Pension Scheme
Comprehensive opportunities to learn new skills and to develop your career within a caring and inclusive environment.
Generous holiday entitlement, which increases in line with service, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave.
Flexible working patterns to support work-life balance.

Fulfil the Statutory role of the Designated Nurse Safeguarding Children for the ICB in accordance with Working Together to Safeguard Children (DH 2018) and as defined in the Safeguarding Children, Young People and Adults at Risk in the NHS: Safeguarding Accountability and Assurance Framework (2020), Children Acts 1989 and 2004 and Children and Social Work Act 2017

Provide strategic leadership and direction in all aspects of portfolio to ensure an integrated and coordinated response across health and care organisations.

Be responsible for the development and implementation of ICB safeguarding vision and strategic plans to enable the ICB to fulfil its statutory duties in relation to safeguarding.

Provision of proactive strategic input to Programme Boards and Committees and other meetings where appropriate

To produce and present high quality, accurate reports to boards, committee’s and Governing Body meetings of the ICB as required, ensuring accuracy and attention to detail. Deliver formal presentations as requested.

Ensure the delivery of safe, effective safeguarding practice across commissioning and provider landscapes across Herefordshire and Worcestershire including providing assurance of the effectiveness of safeguarding activity.

The post holder will be a source of strategic, professional and specialist advice to colleagues.

Support those involved in Learning Reviews across portfolio who may become distressed during the receipt of highly sensitive, contentious, and challenging findings.

Lead on embedding governance arrangements and learning systems across
portfolio.

To provide strong working links with Designated and Named Professional’s in other health organisations to ensure consistent and co-ordinated processes are embedded, including supporting lead safeguarding professionals in providers to implement such findings in their organisations.

To analyse risk and actively take steps to mitigate risks and escalate through the appropriate ICB governance process.

Holding line management responsibility for the staff within Safeguarding & Learning Disability Review Programme (LeDeR) Teams

Work closely with the Chief Medical Officer to oversee systems to identify areas of avoidable or premature mort