Safeguarding Adults Lead Nurse or Professional
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Main area: Safeguarding Adults
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 196-NM12779
Employer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Becket House
Town: London
Salary: £70,387 - £80,465 p.a Inc HCA
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/04/2025 23:59
Interview date: 08/05/2025
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory, and cardiovascular services.
Job overview
The post holder will provide leadership, expert safeguarding advice, and management support. The post-holder will work with the Head of Safeguarding Adults and the wider safeguarding team to continually improve and develop safeguarding adults services, aligning with the Trust’s strategic aims and the local and national safeguarding agenda.
Providing effective communication, networking, and liaison, establishing and maintaining good working relationships within health services and with other agencies to ensure that information relating to adult protection and safeguarding is up to date and embedded in practice.
The successful candidate will undertake relevant projects as required. The post holder will identify areas for service improvement through the use of a working knowledge of improvement methodologies. The post-holder will lead service development aimed at improving quality including patient and carer experience of specialist care, concentrating on delivering a holistic and person-centred approach and promotion of good professional practice.
The post holder will work in collaboration with the Head of safeguarding adults on risk management, patient safety, and clinical governance issues within the context of safeguarding adults. The post holder will foster a culture of prevention, early and accurate identification, and management of safeguarding concerns for the organisation.
Main duties of the job
* To provide professional leadership, consultancy, advice, risk assessment, and expert adult protection practice, to support practitioners on actions to be taken in order to safeguard an adult at risk.
* Exercise a high degree of autonomy to make critical decisions and judgements and deliver advanced clinical skills to the case management of vulnerable adults with complex safeguarding needs.
* Interpret all of the available information to make justifiable assessments when making a differential safeguarding diagnosis.
* Provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive, and highly contentious information where a wide range of skills including persuasion, motivation, negotiation, empathy, and reassurance are required.
Person specification
Qualifications
* RN Registered Nurse, Registered Mental Health Nurse, Registered Social Worker, or Allied Health Professional
* Evidence of ongoing professional development.
* Have completed specific post-registration training in safeguarding adults prior to commencement in the post.
Experience
* Broad clinical experience in safeguarding adults relevant to the post including experience in an acute hospital setting.
* Proven management & leadership roles.
* Experience of managing staff and teams.
* Community experience.
* Experience of working across an organisation.
Skills and Knowledge
* Produce and present high-quality written reports and presentations skills.
* Organisational and planning skills for own workload and that of others in a fast-paced and unpredictable environment.
* In-depth knowledge of legislation, guidance, systems, and processes related to all aspects of safeguarding.
* Ability to influence and negotiate with colleagues to achieve change both internally and nationally.
* Ability to build and lead an effective integrated team.
Additional Information
* Critically reflective.
* A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled with a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority.
* Excellent and acknowledged role model.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects, and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures, and practices to ensure that all employees, patients, and carers are treated equitably according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or studies at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation, we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking into account the individual’s personal circumstances as well as the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the onboarding process.
Your e-mail address is important to us - We communicate to all job applicants via the e-mail address which has been provided on the application form. Please ensure that you check your e-mail on a regular basis.
Please apply for this post by clicking "Apply Online Now."
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Our dedicated and talented staff make it their mission to provide outstanding care for our patients.
#J-18808-Ljbffr