Main area: Nursing and Midwifery
Grade: Band 8d
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (This role is part of the Single Corporate Services and will require the successful candidate to work across sites, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (frequency of visits to each site, to be agreed locally))
Job ref: 470-24-0035-COR-A
Employer: Isle of Wight NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Across sites, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Town: Newport, Isle of Wight
Salary: £88,168 - £101,677 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 09/01/2025 23:59
Associate Chief Nurse Safeguarding
This post is only open for applications for individuals employed within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Care System.
Organisations within scope are as follows:
* Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board
* Southern Health Foundation Trust
* Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
* University Hospital Southampton
* Solent NHS Trust
* South Central Ambulance Service
* Isle of Wight NHS Trust
Our vision for Single Corporate Services:
Isle of Wight NHS Trust (IWT) and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (PHU) have a shared vision of a single corporate service across our two organisations, supported by a single set of identical systems and processes, under joint leadership, to drive significant efficiencies, improve employee experience, and return time to patient care.
This vacancy is part of the Single Corporate Services Division.
The single corporate service is delivered across both organisations. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in-person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.
Main duties of the job:
You will have a proven track record of delivering leadership within safeguarding and you will take a strategic and professional lead in respect of this agenda for both children and adults. You will lead and support all activities necessary to ensure that we meet our responsibilities to our patients and carers.
With well-developed expertise in driving continuous quality improvement, you will be able to demonstrate the ability to engage staff at all levels, promoting collaborative working to achieve outcomes.
Working for our organisation:
The post holder will ensure the Trust meets its obligations under the Children’s Act 2004, Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023, Safeguarding Assurance and Accountability Framework 2022, Care Act 2014, regulatory remits of the CQC and other relevant legislation and guidance in order to ensure the Trust provides safe, effective, and well-led services, in line with the Trust values which safeguard people ‘at risk’.
The post holder will build effective and productive relationships with partner organisations and our communities, define a safeguarding strategy that reflects the national and local agendas, and provide professional guidance and support to colleagues regarding best practice.
Person specification:
Qualifications:
* 1st Level Registered nurse on relevant part of the NMC Register
* First degree or equivalent
* MBA / MSc in relevant subject and evidence of recent further professional development
* Specialist experience/training relating to adults/children at risk
* Evidence of management/ leadership development
Experience:
* Extensive experience in the acute healthcare setting in senior clinical leadership/ clinical service management position
* Extensive knowledge of National and Local NHS and N&M agenda
* Extensive experience in safeguarding role
* Formal and informal teaching experience
* Staff and resource management experience
* Leading change through empowering people and holding them to account
* Evidence of Change Management (e.g. Workforce Re-design)
* Report writing skills and experience
Skills and Knowledge:
* High level leadership skills
* Ability to discuss sensitive and distressing information with patients and their families/carers
* Ability to work collaboratively and cohesively with partnership agencies, commissioners, and regulators
* Ability to represent the Trust at multi-agency working groups, strategy meetings and LSAB
* Articulate with highly developed communication skills with the ability to network and build relationships at all levels, including interpersonal skills, liaison and negotiation skills, writing and presentation skills
* Advising and influencing and provision of expert advice
* IT skills and ability to develop these skills further
* Ability to deal with emergency situations related to safeguarding to ensure patients are protected
* Ability to prioritise work and adapt to changing deadlines
* Able to develop and implement policy, guidelines and projects from initiation to completion
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Visionary and transformational
* Critical appraisal and analytical skills
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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