NHS
Adult's Safeguarding Designated Professional
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Job Description
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- Qualified and registered Nurse, Social worker, or Allied Health care professional
- Educated to Masters degree level or equivalent, or on course to achieve certification
- Experience of working previously in a ICB or NHS setting
- Have substantial clinical professional experience relating to the care of adults and safeguarding.
- Extensive knowledge of evidence based adult safeguarding practice including experience in complex adult safeguarding case management
- Currently practicing in the field of safeguarding adults with an understanding of legislation relating to adults with care and support needs
- Experience in supervising and advising staff in safeguarding adults.
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries in health and social care
- Experience of working with local Safeguarding Adults Board and sub-committees and contributing to Safeguarding Adult Reviews and section 42 enquiries and domestic homicide reviews
- Experience of developing strategies, clinical guidelines and policies for safeguarding adults
- Experience of developing and delivering education, training and support strategies for safeguarding
- Experience of making judgements involving highly complex situations and implement
- workable solutions
- Qualified and registered Nurse, Social worker, or Allied Health care professional
- Educated to Masters degree level or equivalent, or on course to achieve certification
- Experience of working previously in a ICB or NHS setting
- Have substantial clinical professional experience relating to the care of adults and safeguarding.
- Extensive knowledge of evidence based adult safeguarding practice including experience in complex adult safeguarding case management
- Currently practicing in the field of safeguarding adults with an understanding of legislation relating to adults with care and support needs
- Experience in supervising and advising staff in safeguarding adults.
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries in health and social care
- Experience of working with local Safeguarding Adults Board and sub-committees and contributing to Safeguarding Adult Reviews and section 42 enquiries and domestic homicide reviews
- Experience of developing strategies, clinical guidelines and policies for safeguarding adults
- Experience of developing and delivering education, training and support strategies for safeguarding
- Experience of making judgements involving highly complex situations and implement
- workable solutions
Job summary
Are you a qualified nurse or allied health care professional? Do you have a passion and commitment to ensuring that adults in need, are safeguarded well? Are you interested in making a difference? Then why not join us on our journey to develop the system wide safeguarding adults agenda across Kent and Medway
We are looking to recruit enthusiastic and motivated Designate Nurse/Professional with initiative and drive who can work as part of a team and a system to ensure and promote the safeguarding and well-being of adults living in Kent and Medway.
Kent and Medway ICB Safeguarding Team are continuing to develop and shape the way we work together across the NHS and provider landscape. We have an inclusive team of safeguarding professionals, who work collaboratively with services, partners, and key stakeholders to improve the quality of life for adults who find themselves in need of being safeguarded
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work in collaboration with colleagues in the ICB safeguarding team across Kent and Medway, to provide a key leadership role for Safeguarding Adults across our health economy and will be essential in ensuring that the ICB fulfils their statutory safeguarding adult duties. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate skill and expertise in Safeguarding Adults and Mental Capacity Act (2005).
Provide expert advice and direction on all aspects of safeguarding adults including Mental Capacity, Prevent and Domestic Abuse, to ensure that health service contributions are coordinated and integrated across Kent and Medway. Work with and support the role of the Designated Nurse Safeguarding Adults. Contribute your highly specialised safeguarding knowledge to the strategic planning and commissioning of services, ensuring proportionate and effective contract monitoring, assurance, and performance management processes.
About us
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal, and access to training opportunities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation. If you would like this information in an alternative format, or in a different language, please contact the HR team at kmicb.hr@nhs.net
Date posted
25 September 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8b
Salary
£58,972 to £68,525 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working
Reference number
D9095-KM-367A
Job locations
Kent House
81 Station Road
Ashford
Kent
TN23 1PP
Unit A, Compass Centre North
Pembroke Road
Chatham
Kent
ME4 4YH
Unit 4
Markerstudy Business Park, Thanet Way,
Whitstable
CT53FD
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
This senior post works as part of the Integrated Care Board (ICB) safeguarding team ensuring that ICB the statutory safeguarding responsibility and function is appropriately and effectively discharged across the ICB and the wider Integrated Care System. The post provides strategic safeguarding leadership and expert safeguarding advice and consultancy to colleagues, senior managers, and board members, ensuring that safeguarding adults s standards and the statutory responsibilities of the ICB are well met and children in Kent and Medway are appropriately protected and safeguarded from significant risk and harm.
Job responsibilities
This senior post works as part of the Integrated Care Board (ICB) safeguarding team ensuring that ICB the statutory safeguarding responsibility and function is appropriately and effectively discharged across the ICB and the wider Integrated Care System. The post provides strategic safeguarding leadership and expert safeguarding advice and consultancy to colleagues, senior managers, and board members, ensuring that safeguarding adults s standards and the statutory responsibilities of the ICB are well met and children in Kent and Medway are appropriately protected and safeguarded from significant risk and harm.
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
Additional informationDisclosure 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board
Address
Kent House
81 Station Road
Ashford
Kent
TN23 1PP
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board
Address
Kent House
81 Station Road
Ashford
Kent
TN23 1PP
Employer's website
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.
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