This Safeguarding Adults Lead Nurse post sits in the safeguarding adults team at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, working with the Head of Safeguarding Adults. It centres on leading the adults safeguarding service, advising practitioners on adult protection and improving services across health and partner agencies. It is a senior clinical role with autonomy over critical decisions, direct case management of complex needs and a high clinical presence. Candidates need a Masters or equivalent senior experience and in-depth knowledge of safeguarding legislation.
What the job involves
- Provide professional leadership, consultancy and expert adult protection advice to practitioners
- Lead the safeguarding adults service, promoting responsiveness, multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working and high standards
- Make critical decisions and clinical judgements, including advanced case management of vulnerable adults with complex needs
- Carry out risk assessment and make differential safeguarding diagnoses
- Share complex, sensitive and contentious information, using negotiation and persuasion to modernise services and implement change
- Act as senior clinical role model, supporting growth and extended roles for the safeguarding adults team
- Lead service development to improve quality, patient and carer experience and person-centred care
- Identify service improvement areas using improvement methodology and lead relevant projects
- Build networks and working relationships across health services and other agencies to keep safeguarding practice current
- Support risk management, patient safety and clinical governance within safeguarding, with the Head of Safeguarding Adults
- Implement and monitor systems for compliance with safeguarding, clinical governance and Trust policies
- Lead learning from complaints, incidents and feedback, and work with the safeguarding trainer to identify training needs and deliver a training programme
What’s required
Qualifications
- Masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in a specialist area
Experience
- Experience of leading safeguarding systems and managing change
Skills & knowledge
- In-depth knowledge of safeguarding legislation including MCA/DoLS, Care Act 2024 and Domestic Abuse Act
- Experience of managing and motivating a team
Nice to have
- Management or leadership qualification
- Experience of board-level reporting and attendance at Safeguarding Adults Boards
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy on safeguarding adults
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Safeguarding Adults Lead Nurse (or Professional) employer: The Methodist Church in Britain
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
