Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
The post holder will undertake the role of the Named Nurse Safeguarding Adults in accordance with Government legislation and guidance, on behalf of Mersey and West Lancs Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (MWL). The post holder will oversee the safeguarding adult activity, DoLS/ Liberty Protection Safeguards activity, Mental Health Detentions activity and support the Learning Disability / Autism agenda. Line Management will be part of this role.
A high degree of effective communication, liaison and networking is required to maintain good working relationships within the Trust and external partners such as integrated Care Boards, Social Care and the Police. In addition, the post holder as lead specialist must be able to challenge poor practice, influence and negotiate with health and external partners to improve standards and reduce the likelihood of discriminatory practice.
Main duties of the job
1. Support the Assistant Director of Safeguarding to ensure the Trust meet its statutory duties to safeguard adults at risk of abuse.
2. Support and provide supervision to staff in relation to safeguarding adult issues across the Trust.
3. Direct line management responsibility of the Specialist Nurses/Professionals within the Safeguarding Team, ensuring the team remains compliant with mandatory training requirements and appraisal.
4. Deputise for the Assistant Director of Safeguarding at internal and external meetings, representing the Trust with multi-agency partners.
5. Prepare chronologies and management reviews for Safeguarding Adult Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews on behalf of the Trust providing critical analysis of clinical practice and the development of recommendations and appropriate action plans.
6. Collaborate with Trust managers, Complaints and Human Resources in conducting investigations of safeguarding related incidents, complaints and Serious Incidents.
7. Manage and support the Safeguarding Team in working closely with clinical staff to ensure that decision making is supported by expert safeguarding advice.
8. Facilitate delivery of high-quality safeguarding services for adults, children and young people to agreed quality standards which comply with national legislation and local policy and guidance.
9. Work alongside the Assistant Director of Safeguarding to ensure there is a robust training strategy and training programme to meet all educational needs.
10. Lead on development of the safeguarding adults audit calendar and oversight of the completion of the safeguarding adult audits, subsequent analysis and action plans.
11. Identify and implement learning from Safeguarding Adult reviews and similar processes.
12. Monitor, analyse and report on activity identifying trends and themes which may require training provision to be amended.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* NMC Registered Nurse
* Evidence of further professional development in Adult safeguarding / Mental Capacity at Masters level or equivalent experience
* Teaching/Supervision Qualification (Achieved or working towards)
* Management Qualification
Knowledge & Experience
* Evidence of experience working within an adult safeguarding role
* Experience related to caring for adults at risk
* Experience of Quality Assurance Processes
* Expert Knowledge in Safeguarding Adults legislation and associated process
* Experience of writing and presenting reports for multi-agency audiences
* Evidence of leading change
* Experience of working with partner agencies
* Knowledge of Mental Capacity legislation, recommendations and guidelines
* Experience of delivering training to large audiences
Skills
* Ability to analyse and evaluate information and evidence to inform inter-agency decision making
* Effective, robust report writing skills
* Ability to work autonomously
* Ability to prioritise workload
* Ability to establish and maintain safeguarding quality assurance measures / processes / data collection
* Sound working knowledge of the integrated governance agenda
Other
* Ability to travel various locations
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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