Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen with the safeguarding and learning disability liaison team within Northumbria Healthcare Trust. We are looking for a dynamic, professionally curious and experienced person, with either a Nursing, AHP or paramedic background to work within our adult safeguarding section of the team. The role is diverse and exciting; no two days are the same! We are looking for an excellent communicator, someone who is passionate about making a change to adults at risk using a holistic approach.
In addition to the job description, the role would be providing specialist advice and support to staff around complex patients with mental health and safeguarding concerns throughout the trust, liaising with partner agencies. The post holder would also be responsible for developing and expanding the current Frequent Attender process and have good knowledge of safeguarding policies and procedures within this remit. Experience of working with the MHA and the MCA is essential.
Main duties of the job
To work Trust wide as required, providing a service to all employees including covering safeguarding services.
There will be a requirement to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service including shift patterns which cover 7 days working and on call sessions.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?
Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
Job responsibilities
* The post holder will work with the Team Lead Safeguarding Adults, MCA/DoLS and MHA Lead and the Named Nurse, Named Midwife to ensure that the delivery of safeguarding is safe and has a robust governance and performance management framework.
* To contribute to the delivery of a proactive, responsive, specialist safeguarding adults service as part of the Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust Safeguarding Team. To work with a think family approach, to identify wider vulnerabilities and ensure adequate plans are in place to address these.
* Working in partnership with staff and key stakeholders, to develop and deliver both single agency and multi-agency safeguarding training.
* Contribute to local Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hubs (MASH) by providing and analyzing complex health information and participating in Multi-Agency decision making; offering constructive challenge and appropriate escalation where appropriate.
* To provide specialist safeguarding supervision for clinical and non-clinical staff. To support Trust staff in undertaking their responsibilities in relation to Safeguarding adults, children and unborns and develop their skills around this.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Professional Qualification to degree level in relevant subject i.e. Registered Nurse or Midwife, Social Worker, or Allied Health Professional (AHP) with live professional registration.
* Registered Mentor.
* Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period).
* Best Interest Assessor Qualification.
Experience & Knowledge
* Significant experience working with adults at risk, children, unborns, families and carers within a safeguarding arena.
* Significant multi-agency working.
* Experience of safeguarding in current role.
Other Requirement
* It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
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.
Job Location
Safeguarding Hub
The Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital Northumbria Way
Salary
£46,148 to £52,809 a year Pro rata, per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours
Reference number
319-7071673LT
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