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 involves 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 will also be responsible for developing and expanding the current Frequent Attender process and must have good knowledge of safeguarding policies and procedures within this remit. Experience of working with the MHA and the MCA is essential.
The role requires working Trust wide as needed, 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 that 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 that (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.
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.
For further details/informal visits contact: Name: Kirsty Shotton Job title: Team Lead Safeguarding Adults Email address: kirsty.shotton@nhct.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0191 2828900
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