Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Trust as Head Safeguarding. Reporting to our Deputy Chief Nurse, our future Head of Safeguarding will bring expert knowledge in the field of safeguarding, public protection, and vulnerable persons. They will lead our safeguarding teams, adults, children, vulnerable women, and the learning disabilities, dementia services, and newly appointed Enhanced Care Team supporting patients with mental health needs across the Trust. As the head of service for these portfolios, you will support senior teams to deliver the best care aligned with the best practice strategies.
We are seeking highly expert, motivated registered professionals who have significant leadership experience operating at a senior level. Exhibiting compassion, kindness, and inclusivity in your daily values, we support applications from experienced individuals with demonstrable leadership skills.
Main Duties of the Job
As an experienced registered professional working at a Trust-wide level, the post holder will have a lead role in ensuring robust mechanisms for safeguarding and public protection, including those required for the Trust to fulfill its statutory duties.
The post holder will be required to draw on and ensure access to high levels of specialist knowledge about safeguarding, public protection, and vulnerable persons national policies and processes to support all professionals in meeting statutory compliance across the Trust. You will lead the Trust's safeguarding teams, adults, children, and vulnerable women, and the learning disabilities and dementia services ensuring patients and carers are supported, assessed, and appropriately care planned.
As a member of the senior nursing, AHP, and midwifery team, you will be professionally accountable to the Deputy Chief Nurse and be a highly visible member of the senior leadership team.
About Us
Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow, and beyond.
Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists, and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey, and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.
We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.
We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
* Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
* On-site Nurseries
* On-site staff cafes
* On-site parking
* Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes, and home electronics
Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
For more information about a career at ASPH please visit: www.asph-careers.org
Job Responsibilities
For more information please refer to the job description which you can find at the link on this advert.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Further Training
* Registered health or social care professional (nursing, allied health professional, social worker)
* Masters degree or equivalent in related subject
* Recognised qualification in safeguarding
* Recognised training in Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
* Recognised teaching qualification ENB 998/997
Experience
* Previous experience of safeguarding adults including undertaking investigations and reporting on the findings
* Previous experience of working in a multi-agency manner
* Proven experience of working across professional teams and organisational boundaries
* Experience of working as a senior manager for safeguarding
* Experience of facilitating training events
Knowledge
* In-depth knowledge of national and local safeguarding policies, legislative framework, and current priorities.
* Experience of working with and advising Executives in relation to safeguarding.
Skills
* Excellent verbal and written communication including report writing skills
* Evidence of leadership and influencing skills and the ability to provide effective challenge.
* Ability to chair meetings effectively
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.
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