Employer: NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Charter House
Town: Welwyn Garden City
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 per annum plus fringe high cost allowance
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 29/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 07/02/2025
Designated Nurse/Professional All Age Safeguarding-Adult focus
Band 8b
Job overview
We are seeking a Designated Professional with experience of working in Safeguarding Adults and Children, who is enthusiastic about joining a Safeguarding Team transitioning to an All Age model. Adult safeguarding is the primary focus for this role. The role requires Clinician and/or Allied Health Professional experience that includes operational, management, and leadership in Safeguarding. The post holder is required to work in collaboration with multi-agency, multidisciplinary teams and will work with partner agencies, health providers, and VCFSE at a system level. Main duties of the job
The role holder will lead on adult safeguarding with the AD for adult Safeguarding, providing clinical expertise, specialist knowledge, support, and supervision on adult safeguarding and associated issues, including domestic abuse, Mental Capacity Act (MCA), Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Prevent, and Modern Slavery. The role holder will be responsible for the provision of training and support to clinical staff within primary care to embed adult safeguarding practice. Responsibility includes providing an effective, credible, and expert level of clinical support to the Assistant Director Adult Safeguarding, ensuring that robust mechanisms are in place to demonstrate that all aspects of adult safeguarding are applied within provider organisations. Work in partnership across HWE ICB with the safeguarding children team to achieve a ‘Think Family’ approach. This includes achieving a smooth transition from child to adulthood for young people in care/care leavers. Collaborate with multi-agency teams on a strategic and operational level to protect adults at risk and achieve safe and healthy outcomes. Provide assurance to HWE ICB that Providers are robust in safeguarding adults practice. Contribute to quality improvement and patient safety as relevant to the role. Working for our organisation
NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the local NHS organisation that plans and oversees how NHS money is spent and ensures health services work well and are of high quality. The ICB’s role is to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities for the 1.6 million people who live in Hertfordshire and West Essex. It’s an exciting time for us, and we’re looking for people who enjoy working in a fast-paced, vibrant environment that can help us achieve our aim. So if you share our passion for people and want to make a positive change to their health and health services, then we want to hear from you. Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the job description and person specification attached. Person specification
Qualifications
Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior clinical/AHP level in safeguarding adults. Evidence of post-qualifying and continuing professional development. Member of relevant professional body. Knowledge and Experience
Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through postgraduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent. Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts. Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others. Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues, and create solutions to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery. Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills. You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such, this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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Band 8b
Job overview
We are seeking a Designated Professional with experience of working in Safeguarding Adults and Children, who is enthusiastic about joining a Safeguarding Team transitioning to an All Age model. Adult safeguarding is the primary focus for this role. The role requires Clinician and/or Allied Health Professional experience that includes operational, management, and leadership in Safeguarding. The post holder is required to work in collaboration with multi-agency, multidisciplinary teams and will work with partner agencies, health providers, and VCFSE at a system level. Main duties of the job
The role holder will lead on adult safeguarding with the AD for adult Safeguarding, providing clinical expertise, specialist knowledge, support, and supervision on adult safeguarding and associated issues, including domestic abuse, Mental Capacity Act (MCA), Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Prevent, and Modern Slavery. The role holder will be responsible for the provision of training and support to clinical staff within primary care to embed adult safeguarding practice. Responsibility includes providing an effective, credible, and expert level of clinical support to the Assistant Director Adult Safeguarding, ensuring that robust mechanisms are in place to demonstrate that all aspects of adult safeguarding are applied within provider organisations. Work in partnership across HWE ICB with the safeguarding children team to achieve a ‘Think Family’ approach. This includes achieving a smooth transition from child to adulthood for young people in care/care leavers. Collaborate with multi-agency teams on a strategic and operational level to protect adults at risk and achieve safe and healthy outcomes. Provide assurance to HWE ICB that Providers are robust in safeguarding adults practice. Contribute to quality improvement and patient safety as relevant to the role. Working for our organisation
NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the local NHS organisation that plans and oversees how NHS money is spent and ensures health services work well and are of high quality. The ICB’s role is to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities for the 1.6 million people who live in Hertfordshire and West Essex. It’s an exciting time for us, and we’re looking for people who enjoy working in a fast-paced, vibrant environment that can help us achieve our aim. So if you share our passion for people and want to make a positive change to their health and health services, then we want to hear from you. Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the job description and person specification attached. Person specification
Qualifications
Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior clinical/AHP level in safeguarding adults. Evidence of post-qualifying and continuing professional development. Member of relevant professional body. Knowledge and Experience
Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through postgraduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent. Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts. Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others. Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues, and create solutions to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery. Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills. You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such, this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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