Designated Nurse / Professional Safeguarding Children/Adults in Newcastle upon Tyne

North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board have an exciting opportunity for a safeguarding professional with significant safeguarding experience and leadership skills to manage and develop systems and processes for safeguarding adults within the ICB. Applicants should have extensive experience and knowledge of the Safeguarding Adults agenda including the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Domestic Abuse Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, and Prevent.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received. This post is only accepting applications from current staff members of North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be required to manage a team including All Age Deputy Designated Nurses to deliver the ICB's statutory responsibility for safeguarding adults across the ICB working as part of the wider Safeguarding Team. You will need well developed partnership working skills across a range of sectors, particularly with the Local Authorities and the Police who are the statutory partners for safeguarding adults. The postholder will be part of the Senior Safeguarding team and will lead the development of the safeguarding function during a period of significant change. You will be required to be resilient and resourceful in managing a defined area of responsibility whilst also supporting the Deputy Director, Director of Nursing and Chief Nurse to meet organisational responsibilities.

About us

Our Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the largest in the country. The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all of our communities. It has a wide range of functions, including; promoting integration of health and care services, improving people's health and well-being, reducing health inequalities. With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across the North East and North Cumbria. As well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas. These teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of local GP practices, social care teams and other community-based area providers. The ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS Foundation Trusts in the region, to deliver our shared priorities.

Job responsibilities

Commissioning experience would be beneficial as the post holder will also be required to influence and support the development of Strategic Commissioning as a core function of the ICB. You will be required to ensure the ICB's statutory compliance reporting to the Director of Nursing, and ICB Executive teams as required to provide assurance and to manage escalation of any risks or concerns relating to Adult Safeguarding.

For a full job description and person specification, please see the attached document.

Person Specification

• Recognised teaching qualification or equivalent experience.
• Management/leadership qualification or equivalent experience.
• Extensive knowledge of adult safeguarding, acquired through specific post registration safeguarding training to level 4 minimum and at or working towards Level 5.
• Be registered on the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register as a registered children's/adults/mental health nurse or hold a current professional qualification/registration relating to professional safeguarding including Public Health, or Social Work.
• Educated to Master's level or demonstrable equivalent knowledge and experience to masters gained on the job.
• Evidence of further professional development.

Experience

• Significant experience of contributing and quality assuring safeguarding frameworks.
• Significant experience of working as a senior safeguarding adults' position in complex health/social settings.
• Significant experience of multi-agency approach to safeguarding adults and the responsibilities of NHS organisations.
• Evidence of experience in working with senior managers, clinicians, and their staff in a commissioning environment.
• Significant experience of dealing with highly complex, sensitive, and difficult situations.
• Demonstrable experience of influencing skills and managing change effectively.
• Experience in safeguarding audit, outcome-based accountability.
• Experience in leading research and audit.
• Extensive knowledge of the legal frameworks that relate to adult and children safeguarding including as examples Care Act, MCA/DoLs, Domestic Abuse, VAWG, Prevent, Hate Crime, Equality Act, Exploitation, MAPPA, Right Care Right Person.
• Significant experience of providing expert advice to the management executive and at board level.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.