A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arise 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 of 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.
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.
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.
• 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 unborn’s and develop their skills around this.
This advert closes on Wednesday 9 Apr 2025
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