Job summary
TheAssociate Professional for Safeguarding will work closely with the Head ofSafeguarding and Integrated Safeguarding Team members to:
Ensurethat The Trust meets its legal & statutory obligations to safeguard and promote thewelfare of all adults, children and young people and who access services fromany hospital site within the Trust.
Activelyparticipate in all Safeguarding Training delivery for both Safeguarding Adultsand Safeguarding Children training and PREVENT / WRAP, across all levels to allTrust staff, including provision of bespoke training and supporting the Integrated Safeguarding Team with safeguarding training development and review
Support the Integrated Safeguarding Team in the development and delivery of quality assuranceprocesses, audits and report writing in accordance with the SafeguardingChildren and Adult agenda.
Supportthe Integrated Safeguarding Team in all aspect of the multi-agency Safeguarding Childrenand Safeguarding Adult Agenda, as deemed appropriate. This may includedeputising within forums and meetings as deemed appropriate.
Main duties of the job
The Associate Professional for Safeguarding supports and ensures effective Safeguarding practice for the organisation as stipulated in primary legislation and underpinned in Government strategy and national, regional and local guidance, procedures and standards. Professionals in this role will:
1. Support the Named Nurses and Named Midwife to develop, implement and review safeguarding practice across the organisation and its networks.
2. Support the Named Nurses and Named Midwife in the provision of specialist professional safeguarding advice.
3. Deliver safeguarding training and support the Integrated Safeguarding Team to develop, implement and evaluate safeguarding training for all staff groups from induction to specialist courses.
4. Facilitate safe and effective multi-professional communication and information sharing appropriately across a range of settings and agencies in accordance with agreed policies and procedures in relation to safeguarding
5. Communicate highly complex, sensitive and emotive information within the health service and multi-agency contexts, pertaining to safeguarding adults, children and young people.
6. Foster effective working relationships in order to promote inter-disciplinary and multi-agency collaboration and be an active member of multi-agency safeguarding groups.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
7. Best services for local people
8. Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
9. Best use of resources
10. Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Associate Professional for Safeguarding supports and ensures effective Safeguarding practice for the organisation as stipulated in primary legislation and underpinned in Government strategy and national, regional and local guidance, procedures and standards. Professionals in this role will:
11. Support the Named Nurses and Named Midwife to develop, implement and review safeguarding practice across the organisation and its networks.
12. Support the Named Nurses and Named Midwife in the provision of specialist professional safeguarding advice.
13. Deliver safeguarding training and support the Integrated Safeguarding Team to develop, implement and evaluate safeguarding training for all staff groups from induction to specialist courses.
14. Facilitate safe and effective multi-professional communication and information sharing appropriately across a range of settings and agencies in accordance with agreed policies and procedures in relation to safeguarding
15. Communicate highly complex, sensitive and emotive information within the health service and multi-agency contexts, pertaining to safeguarding adults, children and young people.
16. Foster effective working relationships in order to promote inter-disciplinary and multi-agency collaboration and be an active member of multi-agency safeguarding groups.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
17. Experience and knowledge of specialty
18. Experience of child /adult protection work
19. Relevant post registration experience within specialism, including community
20. Senior post holder in current or previous job
21. Experience of interagency working in relation to Safeguarding practice
22. Clinical audit, quality assurance and standard setting
23. Service development and or change management
Desirable
24. Experienced in the delivery of safeguarding training
Other job requirements
Essential
25. Commitment to delivering high quality evidence based child protection practice
26. Commitment to working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency situations
27. Commitment to the development of The Trusts safeguarding and child welfare agenda.
28. Commitment to valuing the contribution of all colleagues, encouraging a positive and creative working environment
29. Commitment to own personal and professional development and to the development of others.
30. Car Driver - Required to travel across hospital sites in accordance to service need
31. Standard Clauses
32. A Disclosures and Barring Service check will be carried out where the position is eligible for a Disclosures and Barring Service Check in accordance with the 2012 Protection of Freedom Act and the guidance issued by the DBS.
33. All posts working with children or vulnerable adults are required to have an Enhanced DBS checked including checking against DBS / ISA Vetting and Barring lists.
Knowlegdge & Skills
Essential
34. Ability to contribute to analysis and problem solving safeguarding and practice issues.
35. Demonstrate ability to resolve issues relating to competence, or conflict personally, within the team, externally within health or in partner agencies.
36. Teaching and assessment skills
37. Communication skills
38. Organisational skills
39. Time management skills
40. Change management skills
41. Advisory, support and guidance
42. Training and a vast array of varying presentation skills
43. IT proficient, including the formulation of Excel Spreadsheets, various reports and action plans
44. Current issues in health and social care pertaining to safeguarding
45. Standards of professional practice and conduct
46. Policies and Procedures proficient
47. Monitoring and review of systems, practice and processes
48. Multi-agency and multi-disciplinary Communication and Liaison
49. Knowledge of current issues in relation to Safeguarding Children, young people and families, including Domestic Abuse, Mental Health, Substance Misuse, Child Sexual Exploitation, Female Genital Mutilation, Child Death Overview Process and Looked after Children.
50. The ability to write in depth reports affording analysis and great understanding of risk
51. Understanding of the local and national safeguarding children agenda and maternal health
52. Understanding of relevant National Service Frameworks
53. Awareness of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust guidelines and policies
54. Professional knowledge and skills for working at a senior level
55. Knowledge of child protection policies, procedures and good practice guidelines
56. Knowledge of Inter-agency procedures and of the legal framework and related guidelines governing child protection
57. Ability to act professionally at all times
Qualifications
Essential
58. Diploma or degree in Nursing or Professional equivalent (Adult and / or Childrens)
59. Teaching and Assessing qualification or working towards
60. Evidence of continued professional development and its application with particular pertinence to Safeguarding Courses
Desirable
61. Specialist Practitioner Qualification, School Nurse or Health Visitor
Personal qualities
Essential
62. Excellent interpersonal skills
63. Innovator
64. Motivator
65. Assertiveness
66. Flexibility, adaptable, capable of lateral thinking
67. Positive role model
68. Resilient
69. Autonomous
70. Tenacious
71. Team player
72. Conflict management
73. Managing stress
74. Uses initiative to resolve issues within their own control