Are you an experienced senior nurse or social worker with a passion for safeguarding & a commitment to delivering high-quality care for adults & children services? If so, this is your opportunity to lead & shape the safeguarding strategy within Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.
As the Safeguarding Lead you will provide senior nursing leadership, ensuring the highest standards of safeguarding practice across our Trust. You will be responsible for developing & implementing strategies, quality governance, & performance management to enhance safeguarding services.
This role involves:
• Strategic Leadership – Shaping & delivering the Trust's safeguarding vision & compliance with statutory regulations.
• Quality Assurance – Ensuring safeguarding governance aligns with national standards supporting audit processes.
• Multi-Agency Collaboration – Representing the Trust at Local Safeguarding Boards and Partnerships & working closely with external stakeholders.
• Education & Training – Leading staff training & development in safeguarding best practices.
Service Improvement – Driving continuous quality improvements to safeguarding processes & patient care.
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
Main responsibilities of the post include:
• Lead on the strategic planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of innovative practice in the management of the safeguarding agenda (adults and children); to promote health and well-being and prevent adverse effects on these due to safeguarding concerns not being managed.
• Lead on the development of evidence-based Trust Safeguarding Policies & Procedures, in line with those of the Safeguarding Partnerships and Boards.
• Responsibility for the Integrated Safeguarding Team, ensuring effective recruitment, performance management, learning and development of staff.
• Monitor the delivery of the Safeguarding agenda whilst promptly identifying and investigating any issues, changing priorities and implementing corrective actions where necessary.
• Engage and collaborate effectively with colleagues across health and social care and other agencies e.g. education, police. Identify concerns about health and well-being and discuss approaches available in management strategies for patients identified with safeguarding issues.
• Identify trends in health and well-being to be able to effectively manage safeguarding resources.
• Contribute to national research and the national policy agenda within Safeguarding
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across the multiagency partnership, and where appropriate with patients and the public, to define and clarify the strategic direction of safeguarding.
• Facilitate collaboration between primary and secondary care and other agencies to improve the quality outcomes for people undergoing Safeguarding concerns.
• Manage all resources effectively.
This advert closes on Wednesday 2 Apr 2025
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