Named Lead Safeguarding Adults

**Main area**
- Named Nurse Safeguarding Children

**Grade**

Band 8a

**Contract**

Permanent

**Hours**

Part time - 18.75 hours per week

**Job ref**

373-CSS1115

**Site**
- Redesmere

**Town**

Chester

**Salary**

£53,755 - £60,504 per annum

**Salary period**

Yearly

**Closing**

14/01/2025 23:59

**Job overview**:
The Named Lead for Safeguarding Adults will be responsible for ensuring that effective and efficient structures, systems and processes are in place to promote a high standard of evidenced based practice in the field of safeguarding.

Ensuring a think family approach is embedded within practice and specifically ensuring CWP safeguarding adult practice within is compliant with current legislation and guidance.

Part time - 18.75 hours per week

**Main duties of the job**:
This role in supporting the organisation to deliver high quality safeguarding adults practice and to ensure CWP are meeting statutory requirements in line with the legislative framework.

The individual needs to be conversant with legislation and provide expert safeguarding advice and support to staff of CWP consistent with legislation, guidance and procedures. Ensuring that there are robust internal safeguarding policies, which take into account legislation, guidance and procedures.

Leading and promoting excellence and compliance in safeguarding practice within the organisation across the full spectrum of activity from prevention and early help through to the statutory response to serious incidents, local and national Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews and Safeguarding Adult reviews..

In addition, you will lead on the monitoring and reporting on safeguarding performance indicators. You will prepare reports for the Quality, safeguarding and Learning Forums and the Trustwide Safeguarding Committee and Quality committee. You will also brief the Head of safeguarding on organisational responsibilities in safeguarding, supporting with the production of biannual and annual Board reports to provide assurance.

**Working for our organisation**:
CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care - including the provision of three GP surgeries.

Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.

We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you.

CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.

To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This programme welcomes you to CWP and provides you with information and training to support you in your role.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
Please download a copy of the job description for full details.
- Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
- CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a **_Values Based Interview/Assessment_**,** which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’

Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

CWP is proud to be an accredited Veteran Aware organisation helping to provide and share best practice in NHS care for our armed forces community. As a veteran aware organisation, CWP is committed to delivering on the principles of the Armed Force Covenant and has a ‘Silver’ award with the MOD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (DERS).

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Registered Nurse/ social worker / Therapist
- First Level Degree
- Evidence of personal and professional development
- Management course /Safeguarding leadership course
- Accredited / recognised course for safegua