Safeguarding Administrator

The Trust is committed to driving excellence in care for our patients and communities and was rated good by the Care Quality Commission report published 2020 and became a University Hospital. We are ranked as the third in the country for research; embedding education and training across the organisation and we continuously strive to achieve our core values which are at the heart of everything we do. The Trusts main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, starting life as a military hospital over a century ago and now one of the largest hospitals on the south coast and you may have seen us on the TV series Nurses on the Ward. The Trust provides comprehensive secondary care and specialist services to a local population of 675,000 people across South East Hampshire. The Trust employs over 8,000 staff and are #ProudtobePHU; our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because its the right thing to do, but because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for providing outstanding care and support for patients, colleagues and our community you will find a home at PHU. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.

Here at Portsmouth Staff Bank, we support the Trust with temporary staff in all staff groups. We offer our workers an excellent service that allows them to work flexibly whilst enjoying several benefits including:

- Online timesheets
- Weekly pay
- Priority over agency workers
- Supportive on-site teams
- And many more

To make sure that our bank workers are fully supported we have a dedicated recruitment and compliance team. They work hard to ensure that our workers can start booking shifts as soon as possible. In addition, a helpful bookings desk and on-site team are there to assist them and answer any questions.

Job summary
To ensure effective administration of Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust* safeguarding service work plans, priority plans, safeguarding service risk register, and adherence to National and Local safeguarding Policies and Procedures

To provide a comprehensive secretarial and administration service to the Safeguarding Team. To contribute in the development, implementation and monitoring of safeguarding systems within the Safeguarding Service and across PHU.

**Job responsibilities**

Shared Core Functions

1. Proactively and positively contribute to the achievement of deliverables through individual and team effort. Manage the production of the required deliverables and control risks,

2. Support team members to deliver on their functionally relevant objectives through offering advice, guidance and support as appropriate.

3. Ensure that approved budgets are spent effectively and in accordance with agreed procedures

4. Liaison with Senior Professionals and related functions to ensure that work is neither overlooked nor duplicated

5. Build and sustain effective communications with other roles involved in the shared services as required

6. Maintain and continuously improve specialist knowledge in an aspect of Health Service which significantly contributes to the Trusts stated objectives & aims

7. Establish and maintain strategic links with a range of external partners/stakeholders or manage the links made through the team. Engage with external partners/stakeholders to gain their necessary level of contribution & commitment to the successful delivery of your work.

8. Undertake proactive horizon scanning for either developments relating to Trust work or opportunities for Trust involvement around health issues

9. Increase the level of knowledge & skills within the Trust through documenting key learning and supporting others to develop their professional abilities.

10. Dissemination of knowledge through engagement in report writing, and reviewing, taking full responsibility for technical accuracy and reliability and being sensitive to the wider implications of that dissemination.

11. Ensure that expertise is seen as a resource within and outside the Trust and form working partnerships with government departments, national agencies and key stakeholders.

Develop structures, systems, ways of working and personal values that will support the Trusts sustainable development objectives regarding issues such as Carbon reduction and waste minimization; and to encourage all stakeholders of the Trust to act as enthusiastic agents of change.

Specific Core Functions

Under the professional guidance of the Safeguarding Administration Team Manager:
1. To be proficient in word processing and information technology to support professional input and outputs of safeguarding service documentation, including patient-sensitive docu