Safeguarding Lead

Job Introduction
As the Safeguarding lead you will be working as part of the Quality & Patient Safety Team at HCRG Care Group.** You will be required to work 37.5 hours between 8am and 6pm, Monday through to Friday, some of these hours can be carried out at home. You will not work be required to work at the weekend or bank holidays.**

Your key responsibility will be to work closely with the Head of Quality & Patient Safety to support all safeguarding activities necessary to ensure that HCRG Care Group meets its statutory responsibilities to safeguard and protect adults and children. This includes contributing to the organisational safeguarding agenda. You will work alongside other Quality & Patient Safety Team members, Service Managers, Head of Operations and Head of Business Unit.

You will report into the Head of Quality & Patient Safety, but have no direct reports yourself.

Main Responsibilities
- Ensure that the organisation as a business unit meets its responsibilities for safeguarding.
- Provision of Safeguarding Supervision to all teams across the Business Unit.
- To contribute to the development of wider organisational safeguarding policies, processes and procedures.
- Contribute as required to the wider organisational safeguarding agenda.
- Participate in multi-agency subgroups.
- Provide assurance to the safeguarding sub-committee.
- Support and advise other professionals on relevant legal frameworks and documentation.

You will be a Registered Nurse or Midwife, educated to degree level.

You will have completed specific post-registration training in safeguarding adults prior to commencement in post including law, policy and practice at Level 2 or Post Graduate Diploma (PGDip).

You will have a minimum of three years experience practising in the field of safeguarding.

You will have the ability to write detailed and comprehensive reports and reviews.

You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

About The Company
**We change lives by transforming health and care.**

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Package Description
This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional professional to be our Safeguarding Lead. You will be part of our dynamic Quality & Patient Safety Team at North Kent, HCRG Care Group. You will be rewarded with opportunities to lead our Safeguarding agenda and continue to develop the service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

- £48,526-£54619 Band 8a with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- **The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a number of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission