The Associate Director of Nursing for Safeguarding will:
Provide strategic clinical leadership on safeguarding children and adults at risk of abuse and neglect to ensure that all health service contributions are coordinated and integrated across UHSussex in collaboration with the Sussex Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Adult Partnership Boards. Operationally lead and manage the senior safeguarding professionals and safeguarding functions at UHSussex, providing strategic direction for the safeguarding agenda across the UHSussex. Support the Chief Nursing Officer in engaging with executive/board members, senior managers, clinicians, practitioners, and officers across health, social care, and police services to develop a strategic safeguarding vision transformed into a delivery model that the health community and Sussex Partnership Boards can adopt. Provide the Deputy Chief Nurse with practical advice and support on all matters relating to safeguarding.
Provide strategic leadership for safeguarding partnerships, ensuring the work adheres to statutory duties relating to providing health services. Work closely with the designated professionals and senior leaders across organisations and agencies to inform and influence safeguarding performance and monitoring and ensure equity of access to health services to address the identified health needs of protecting children, adults at risk of abuse and neglect and other vulnerable groups. Responsible for ensuring there are robust systems, policies, procedures, professional guidance, and training programmes in place across UHSussex to enable staff to identify and safeguard children and adults at risk of abuse and neglect at an early stage, protect them from harm where possible and provide adequate care for adults and children and their families where abuse has occurred. Ensure robust safeguarding data management and reporting.
Establish assurance systems and processes and facilitate effective reporting to ICS/ICB governance and assurance mechanisms. Provide expert advice, specialist supervision, coaching or support for senior staff and managers involved in complex situations, assessment and management of risk, case conferences, police or legal interviews and court appearances. Be a member of Local Safeguarding Boards/Partnerships in place, offering strategic oversight of the health agenda for this arrangement. Develop collaborative and effective relationships with vital statutory partners, specifically directors of adult and children's services in local authorities and police leads.
Provide advice and direction to UHSussex executive and corporate functions to facilitate compliance with statutory responsibilities regarding evolving national and local safeguarding priorities.
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Provide strategic clinical leadership on safeguarding children and adults at risk of abuse and neglect to ensure that all health service contributions are coordinated and integrated across UHSussex in collaboration with the Sussex Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Adult Partnership Boards. Operationally lead and manage the senior safeguarding professionals and safeguarding functions at UHSussex, providing strategic direction for the safeguarding agenda across the UHSussex. Support the Chief Nursing Officer in engaging with executive/board members, senior managers, clinicians, practitioners, and officers across health, social care, and police services to develop a strategic safeguarding vision transformed into a delivery model that the health community and Sussex Partnership Boards can adopt. Provide the Deputy Chief Nurse with practical advice and support on all matters relating to safeguarding.
Provide strategic leadership for safeguarding partnerships, ensuring the work adheres to statutory duties relating to providing health services. Work closely with the designated professionals and senior leaders across organisations and agencies to inform and influence safeguarding performance and monitoring and ensure equity of access to health services to address the identified health needs of protecting children, adults at risk of abuse and neglect and other vulnerable groups. Responsible for ensuring there are robust systems, policies, procedures, professional guidance, and training programmes in place across UHSussex to enable staff to identify and safeguard children and adults at risk of abuse and neglect at an early stage, protect them from harm where possible and provide adequate care for adults and children and their families where abuse has occurred. Ensure robust safeguarding data management and reporting.
Establish assurance systems and processes and facilitate effective reporting to ICS/ICB governance and assurance mechanisms. Provide expert advice, specialist supervision, coaching or support for senior staff and managers involved in complex situations, assessment and management of risk, case conferences, police or legal interviews and court appearances. Be a member of Local Safeguarding Boards/Partnerships in place, offering strategic oversight of the health agenda for this arrangement. Develop collaborative and effective relationships with vital statutory partners, specifically directors of adult and children's services in local authorities and police leads.
Provide advice and direction to UHSussex executive and corporate functions to facilitate compliance with statutory responsibilities regarding evolving national and local safeguarding priorities.
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