This 12-month fixed-term post in the Surrey and Sussex ICB safeguarding team leads the health system's response to exploitation across Sussex. The work centres on co-ordinating health input into exploitation risk assessments and meetings, and acting as the NHS subject expert on the topic. It is a multi-agency role, working with NHS providers, councils, police and safeguarding partnerships, and internal applicants need their line manager's support to be considered for a secondment. Current clinical registration and professional body membership are required.
What the job involves
- Act as lead for exploitation across the health system, co-ordinating health representation in the exploitation agenda, risk assessments and relevant meetings
- Support the Head of Safeguarding and Designated Professionals to plan, manage and deliver the exploitation workstream
- Work with Safeguarding Children Partnerships, and Safeguarding Adults Boards as needed, to improve exploitation safeguarding arrangements across health and partner agencies
- Lead and co-ordinate NHS activity to prevent, identify and respond to exploitation
- Act as NHS safeguarding lead and subject-matter expert on exploitation, keeping up with emerging issues, legislation, policy and best practice
- Ensure organisational awareness of exploitation and how it links to wider safeguarding processes
- Carry out other reasonable duties required by the line manager
What’s required
Qualifications
- Degree-level or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject, or significant experience of working in the specialist area
- Evidence of continued professional development
Registration & licences
- Current clinical registration and membership of a relevant professional body
Experience
- Significant experience of operating successfully in a multi-agency environment
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
- Experience of managing risks and reporting
- Experience of drafting briefing papers, reports and correspondence at system-wide level
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal and multi-agency processes and procedures
- Experience of managing a team without direct line management
Skills & knowledge
- Ability to analyse very complex, conflicting material drawn from multiple sources
- Ability to act on incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decisions
- Numerate, with deep analytical skills
- Ability to prepare concise, insightful communications and give presentations to varied stakeholders
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes
- Understanding of the public sector and multi-agency system
Other
- Ability to demonstrate NHS and ICs values and behaviours in all work and interactions
Nice to have
- Demonstrated experience in a healthcare environment
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The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
