Professional Head of Safeguarding

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Full time
Location: Chertsey
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We have an exciting opportunity to join our Trust as Head of Safeguarding. Reporting to our Deputy Chief Nurse, our future Head of Safeguarding will bring expert knowledge in the field of safeguarding, public protection, and vulnerable persons. They will lead our safeguarding teams, including adults, children, vulnerable women, and the learning disabilities and dementia services, as well as the newly appointed Enhanced Care Team supporting patients with mental health needs across the Trust. As the head of service for these portfolios, you will support senior teams to deliver the best care aligned with best practice strategies.

We are seeking highly expert, motivated registered professionals who have significant leadership experience operating at a senior level. Exhibiting compassion, kindness, and inclusivity in your daily values, we support applications from experienced individuals with demonstrable leadership skills.

For informal discussion, please contact current post holder Jane Mitchell on 07825 530423 or 01932 722119.

As an experienced registered professional working at a Trust-wide level, the post holder will have a lead role in ensuring robust mechanisms for safeguarding and public protection, including those required for the Trust to fulfil its statutory duties.

The post holder will be required to draw on and ensure access to high levels of specialist knowledge about safeguarding, public protection, and vulnerable persons' national policies and processes to support all professionals in meeting statutory compliance across the Trust.

You will lead the Trust's safeguarding teams, including adults, children, and vulnerable women, as well as the learning disabilities and dementia services, ensuring patients and carers are supported, assessed, and appropriately care planned.

As a member of the senior nursing, AHP, and midwifery team, you will be professionally accountable to the Deputy Chief Nurse and be a highly visible member of the senior leadership team.

Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow, and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists, and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey, and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition: Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement On-site nurseries On-site staff cafes On-site parking Support in career development Salary sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes, and home electronics

Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

For more information about a career at ASPH please visit: www.asph-careers.org

For more information please refer to the job description which you can find at the link on this advert.

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