Head of Safeguarding for Children, Young People and Adults

Job Overview

Are you an experienced senior nurse with a passion for safeguarding and a commitment to delivering safe, effective, and high-quality care for children, young people, and adults? If so, this is your opportunity to deliver the Trust safeguarding duties and lead a team of safeguarding practitioners to advise, train, and guide staff working across the Trust with children, young adults, people with mental health and learning disabilities, and older persons.

The Head of Safeguarding for Children, Young People, and Adults is also responsible for the strategic, operational management, and leadership of the Trust-wide Safeguarding Team and the hosted CDOP (Child Death Overview Process) Team.

The Trust takes safeguarding seriously, and the post holder will ensure that children and adult patients are safeguarded and receive the right response to protect them, in the right place, and by staff who are skilled, trained, and sensitive towards their needs. The post holder will also be the Trust’s representative across the system-wide safeguarding partnerships to support effective multi-agency working for safeguarding practice and lead on building system relationships to ensure that patients are safeguarded as they move through the Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland system.

Main Duties And Responsibilities

The post holder will provide leadership and coordinate the delivery of Trust-wide Safeguarding responsibilities, ensuring that appropriate support, supervision, and risk management processes and training are in place to enable safe, efficient, effective, and timely management of the Safeguarding agenda and services. They will advise the Executive Lead and Trust Board on the organisation’s responsibilities around safeguarding, ensuring that safeguarding is adequately resourced and meets national standards within national guidance, and that staff receive adequate supervision and training to support the safeguarding delivery across the Trust.

Influence and lead on safeguarding governance within the Trust, ensuring the arrangements are robust, fit for purpose, and meet statutory requirements with a focus on quality improvement, audit research, and feedback from the people who use the Trust services. Lead LPT’s contribution to local OFSTED and CQC inspections of safeguarding, both in supporting preparation and engaging with the safeguarding inspection processes, and ensure that quality systems are in place to monitor essential standards for registration.

Work with the Local Safeguarding Children’s Partnership Board (LSCPB), Adult Safeguarding Board (SAB), Trust’s Named Professionals, Professional Practice leads, and Service Managers to develop safeguarding practice, procedures, and guidance. Deputise as the Trust’s representative on local Safeguarding Partnerships and work closely with external stakeholders.

We may close the advert early if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health, and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours, and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants; please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs, the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

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