Employer: Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Town Wharf (main base) / Walsall Manor Hospital / Blakenall Village Centre
Town: Walsall
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/02/2025 23:59
Safeguarding Adults Nurse
Band 6
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust provides integrated acute and community Healthcare in the West Midlands serving a population of 260,000 residents. Walsall Manor Hospital houses the full range of district general hospital services. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and we are continually upgrading.
We provide high quality, friendly and effective community health services from multiple sites covering Walsall. Our multidisciplinary services include rapid response and home-based care, so that those with long-term conditions and the frail elderly can remain in their own homes.
We are recommended by colleagues as a place to work which is supported by the trust's values to work as part of a team, being respectful, compassionate and professional. We are committed to investing in our workforce.
Following our recent CQC visit, the Trust was rated as outstanding for care and this has been recognised by NHS Improvement.
The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including: salary sacrifice scheme; car leasing scheme; on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability); the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme; and the opportunity to develop and implement your expertise in an encouraging yet challenging environment.
We would particularly welcome applications from people from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background and from people with a disability; these groups are currently under-represented at senior level, we value diversity within our Trust and are working to achieve equality in our recruitment.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to get vaccinated.
Job overview
The Safeguarding Adult Nurse will:
1. Work as part of the Trust Safeguarding Team to promote the Adult Safeguarding agenda and a culture of professional curiosity Trust wide.
2. Deliver effective compassionate safeguarding advice, support and supervision under the direction of the Lead Nurse and attend any Multi-Agency meetings as required.
3. Ensure that the Trust meets its statutory obligations to safeguard and promote the welfare of all adults, children and young people who access Walsall Healthcare Trust services.
4. Support the Adult Safeguarding Team in the development and delivery of quality assurance and innovative practice.
PLEASE NOTE, WE MAY CLOSE THIS VACANCY EARLY IF WE RECEIVE HIGH NUMBERS OF APPLICATIONS.
Main duties of the job
1. Delivering safe and effective safeguarding practice.
2. To enhance the patient's experience.
3. To ensure effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation's objectives.
Person specification
Qualifications
* NMC Registered Nurse, midwife or RMN, including those with a specialist qualification such as RHV, or those with HPC registration.
* Degree level nursing qualification or evidence of commensurate experience in acute and or community nursing.
* Evidence of relevant professional updating within last 12 months.
Flexibility
* There is flexibility with this post however there will be a requirement to work core hours (9am -5pm), to meet service needs.
* Ability to travel to a variety of locations to meet the requirement of the role.
Knowledge and Experience
* Relevant and recent experience of safeguarding.
* Working knowledge of Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
* Effective leadership.
* Suitability and resilience to work with adults/children at risk of abuse.
* Data input, collection, analysis, audit and evaluation.
* Use of databases.
* Standard keyboard skills and knowledge of a number of IT packages such as Word and Excel.
* Able to work under pressure across competing priorities.
* Ability to utilise research and develop a research aware culture.
* Clinical skills and competency to maintain credibility.
* Can act on own initiative.
* Knowledge of Domestic Abuse/Exploitation.
* Use of WHT electronic patients records.
Competencies, Skills and Aptitudes
* Excellent written and verbal skills.
* Ability to communicate with a wide variety of staff internally and externally, patients and carers.
* Positive and enthusiastic.
* Courteous and polite, and able to model the Trust’s values and standards of behaviour.
* Ability to communicate empathetically with staff and on occasion patients, relatives and or carers when discussing potentially distressing and sensitive information.
Other
* Ability to de-brief patients, relatives, carers and staff during stressful and emotional times or following a serious incident.
Please note your application will be transferred from the NHS Jobs system to internal Walsall Healthcare Trac System. All correspondence will be sent via Trac.
** Please Note that this post may be identified as suitable and a preference given for Internal at Risk Employees**
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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