Person Safety Lead

3 weeks ago

Liverpool, United Kingdom Alternative Futures Group Full time
Person Safety Lead, 35 hours per week. Working in the North West of England, driver essential

Alternative Futures Group is the North West’s largest Mental Health and Learning Disability charity.

With a strong track record over 30 years, we work and through our  to provide a wide range of innovative and bespoke care services.

We have a vision to create a world where people control their lives.  Here at AFG, we pride ourselves on helping the people we support to design, develop and ‘own’ the support they receive by planning this with them; we support people to make informed choices and increase their own independence; and we support people to maintain their own health, wellbeing and living environment.  These principles are really important to us.

As a ‘values based’ employer, the people that work for us genuinely care about the people they support, and we are seeking likeminded people to join our AFG family.  If you are passionate about working in Health and Social Care and have a real desire to make a positive difference to the lives of the people we support then we would love to hear from you.

At AFG we also recognise the contribution and value that our staff make.  We would not be able to provide the life changing support that we do without people like you 

In return for your contribution we will support you throughout your career and we provide a wide range of employee benefits, career development and lifestyle support services to ensure that you too feel supported, fulfilled and valued from day one of your employment with us.

Job Purpose

Alternative Futures Group has an ambition to be a sector leader in quality, value and personal outcomes over the next 3 years by delivering:

  • A person-centred, strengths-based, & outcome-focused support model that supports active citizenship, health and well-being.
  • CQC ratings of Good or Outstanding in all services and domains.
  • A philosophy of continuous improvement, co-production & innovation.

The Person Safety Lead role prioritises the health and wellbeing of people supported to maximise outcomes and safety and minimise inequalities. They focus on high-risk areas such as choking and falls and health promotion.

  Dimensions

  • Promoting a safe environment for vulnerable adults and forge positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders in relation to the health, wellbeing and safety of the people we support.
  • Providing support to operations to improve the quality of service delivery, ensuring services meet or exceed quality standards and regulatory requirements.
  • There is no budget responsibility.

  Principal Accountabilities

  • Work across departments to ensure the organisation is compliant with regulatory requirements and fulfils its duties and responsibilities in line with evidence-based practice, sector guidance and contractual requirements.
  • Support operational managers and staff to identify individuals at risk of harm from high-risk conditions, behaviours or events.
  • Provide specialist advice and support to operational managers and staff to manage these risks across the organisation with relevant policies, procedures and documentation.
  • Proactively promote the health and wellbeing agenda for the people we support.
  • Act as the organisation lead for person safety around high-risk areas including (but not limited to) choking, falls, sepsis, medication errors and epilepsy.
  • Ensure that Quality and Governance Systems are implemented to monitor performance against the required regulations and standards.
  • Co-ordinate the review of organisational policies and procedures.
  • Provide and assist in the provision of reports to internal and external partners.
  • Engage and attend local and national provider forums/meetings.
  • Advise and support operational managers in meeting and exceeding sector standards.
  • Collect, collate and analyse information to assist compliance and service improvement.
  • Create links with other organisations which facilitate shared learning and the development of best practice.
  • Use a structured programme of audit actions, KPIs, themes and trends to manage systematic quality improvement projects using a standardised QI model.
  • Support the person supported engagement and co-production agenda involving people with lived experience in quality monitoring and improvement.
  • Undertake themed operational, quality and safety audits.
  • Analyse all audit activity to monitor and report KPIs, identify and report on themes and trends for good practice and areas for improvement and lessons learned at organisational level.
  • Develop, and coordinate, service delivery improvement plans.
  • Produce a monthly quality and safety report for the Investigations & Compliance Manager
  • Produce any other quality and safety reports as required internally and externally.
  • Undertake investigations of serious incidents across the organisation.
  • Provide expert support, advice and guidance to operational managers to improve the quality of service delivery, ensuring services meet or exceed quality standards and regulatory requirements.
  • Coaching operational managers on quality, safety and improvement, personalisation, co-production and outcomes.

Person Specification - Essential Requirements: 

Skills and Knowledge

  • Resilient and able to work at a pace and manage competing priorities.
  • Highly numerate and excellent analytical skills.
  • Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) to both operational and corporate colleagues.
  • IT literate.
  • An understanding of contemporary models of mental health, learning disability and autism support in adult health and social care.
  • An understanding of relevant health and social care legislation and regulatory frameworks.
  • Awareness of the policy context of adult health and social care.

Values and Attitudes:

  • Passion for making a positive difference in the lives of others
  • Commitment to AFG values

Experience: 

  • At least 3 years’ experience working in adult health or social care supporting people with learning disability, autism or mental health problems.
  • Experience of working within a creative and innovative environment and using a range of reporting tools and evidence to inform and improve practice.
  • Experience of CQC regulatory compliance framework and maintaining high standards of quality and safety.
  • Monitoring and reporting quality, safety and operational KPIs for assurance and improvement.
  • Experience of high-risk behaviours, conditions or events including choking, falls, epilepsy and medication errors.

Qualifications & Training:  

  • Registered Nurse / DipSW / NVQ Level 5 in Management or equivalent professional /academic qualification.

Other: 

  • Car driver with full licence.
  • Ability to travel across the North West.
  • Expectation to be in services at least 3 days per week.

This role is Band II as per our structue

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