Job summary
- Main area
- Safeguarding
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 116-6082134-B
- Employer
- NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bridge House
- Town
- Sleaford
- Salary
- £41,659 - £47,672 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 07/06/2024
Employer heading
Safeguarding Lead Nurse Adults and Children
NHS AfC: Band 7
NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board has been established to support the wider health and social care needs of the population of Lincolnshire and will focus on to deliver its agreed vision of ‘Better Lives for the people of Lincolnshire’.
This includes:
- Improving the health of children and young people.
- Supporting people to stay well and independent.
- Acting sooner to help those with preventable conditions.
- Supporting those with long-term conditions or mental health issues.
- Caring for those with multiple needs as populations age.
- Getting the best from collective resources so people get care as quickly as possible.
Job overview
The post holder will work as a member of the Lincolnshire Integrated Care System (ICS) Safeguarding Team and will provide operational leadership and support to the safeguarding adult and children’s agendas across the ICB in Lincolnshire.
The post holder will work collaboratively with external partners and providers of health care, including but not exhaustive of, Local Safeguarding Boards, Police, and the Local Authority within the context of an ICS to enable the wider team to support the Families First for Children Pathfinder Programme.
The Safeguarding Lead Nurse Adults and Children will be a visible role model with responsibility for maintaining own professional standards are in relation to safeguarding governance and quality.
The post holder will contribute to the support of improvements in patient safety, experience and effectiveness of safeguarding process and practice, escalating concerns where appropriate.
As part of the ICB safeguarding team the post holder will be expected to contribute to the delivery of ICB safeguarding standards addressed through Lincolnshire Safeguarding Partnership Boards and external bodies, such as NHSE, CQC, Ofsted and national safeguarding groups.
The post holder will be required to demonstrate resilience and determination in contexts that are often unfamiliar, complex and unpredictable.
The post holder will continually strive to improve practice and safeguarding outcomes.
Main duties of the job
- Maintain and develop effective systems of safeguarding audit to monitor compliance against agreed local adult/children safeguarding policies and procedures.
- Work with partners to ensure that prompt action is taken to identify challenges in the commissioning of services to safeguard children and adults.
- Support the formulation and development of policies, procedures and guidelines in relation to safeguarding
- Actively contribute to the DATIX web incident reporting processes
- Attend staff, management and other meetings, including multi-agency meetings.
- Assist with the monitoring of the implementation of recommendations made through the formulation and adjustment of plans processes, reviews, and inspections for the safeguarding of adults/children through to completion to improve their outcomes.
- Support the development of effective inter-disciplinary and inter-agency relationships to improve the outcomes of targeted and responsive safeguarding.
- Work closely with other agency safeguarding professionals to review, develop and improve safeguarding arrangements across the health economy, multi-agency partner organisations and the area team.
- Provide specialist advice to health colleagues on matters relating to safeguarding, including primary care.
- Contribute to providing specialist advice and support to the ICB around any corrective action for providers when service levels fall below expectation of the contract
- The post holder will be the operational lead for Domestic abuse.
Working for our organisation
NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a new statutory organisation bringing the NHS together locally to improve population health and establish shared strategic priorities within the NHS.
The ICB is part of a wider Lincolnshire Integrated Care System which has four key objectives:
- Improve outcomes in population health and healthcare.
- Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access.
- Enhance productivity and value for money.
- Help the NHS support broader social and economic development.
By working together with the ICB, the wider system will deliver its agreed vision of ‘Better Lives for the people of Lincolnshire’. Lincolnshire ICB will use its resources and powers to achieve demonstrable progress on these aims, collaborating to tackle complex challenges including:
- Improving the health of children and young people.
- Supporting people to stay well and independent.
- Acting sooner to help those with preventable conditions.
- Supporting those with long-term conditions or mental health issues.
- Caring for those with multiple needs as populations age.
- Getting the best from collective resources so people get care as quickly as possible.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Direct/Indirect patient care
- Provide operational complex case management advice and knowledge in the delivery of specific programmes of work in relation to all aspects of safeguarding adults and children.
- Assess, develop and implement specialised health education programmes in relation to safeguarding adults and children, where there is a significant correlation between the learning outcomes and frontline safeguarding within primary care settings.
- To be a competent, knowledgeable, and visible practitioner supporting the operational provision of high-quality care, in relation to all aspects of safeguarding adults and children.
Policy and Service Development
- Support the development of local policies, procedures, and guidelines in relation to safeguarding adults and children.
- Support the development of protocols and procedures for specialist areas of safeguarding activity.
- Work collaboratively to ensure appropriate arrangements are in place to deliver safeguarding training for Primary Care which incorporates relevant and up to date Safeguarding Adult, MCA/LPS content, in a “Think Family” context.
Financial and physical resources
- The post holder will identify opportunities for the use of available financial and staff resource to innovate and create opportunity for service improvement.
Human Resources
- Ability to adapt leadership style to differing, complex situations.
- Promote a culture within the team, which is inclusive, respectful, resilient and responds positively to challenge.
- Support safeguarding GP leads to access training opportunities for themselves and their colleagues within the surgery.
- Delivery of the safeguarding training programme and changes in response to statute/ legislation/ population demographics and review outcomes/recommendations.
- Create a positive learning environment where skills and knowledge can be shared using a variety of media thereby developing a culture of continuous improvement and development in practice.
Information resources
- Support the review of data submitted by providers in relation to compliance with safeguarding quality standards, key performance indicators and metrics.
- Support the safeguarding team in the development of robust and accountable quality and performance reporting standards and processes in relation to safeguarding Adults and Children.
- Occasional requirement to use computer software, Excel to develop or create statistical reports.
- Analyse information and reports submitted by providers in relation to compliance with safeguarding quality standards and key performance.
- Audit and develop the monitoring of the quality and effectiveness of safeguarding training.
Research and Development
- Support local audits, including section 11 multi-agency audit and implementation of recommendations following Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews / Safeguarding Adult Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews.
- Contribute to the planning, delivery and evaluation of safeguarding training within the ICB including safeguarding adults, children, LAC, transition, domestic abuse, Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and Prevent.
Person specification
Qualifications and Experience
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with a minimum of three years post registration experience
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree or significant experience in safeguarding and supplemented by specialist training
- Knowledge of current Safeguarding legislation relevant to Adult and Children’s safeguarding, MCA, LPS, Children Act, (not exhaustive),Including contextual safeguarding
- Use of persuasive, negotiating, empathetic and reassuring skills. Manage and diffuse distressing and emotional situations in a sensitive manner with service users and families, often at times when they have difficulty communication or understanding
- Ability to analyse and assess various components of assessments that may contain conflicting information or indicators, which will require the post holder to interpret the implications and give consideration to subsequent outcomes
- Ability to develop and maintain good relationships with all agencies, senior management, and colleagues
Desirable criteria
- Post registration experience of working with vulnerable groups relevant to this post.
- Further academic study relating to this post
- Experience of working with partner agencies in a range of settings at an operational level
- Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information, present complex information to large groups
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gail Colley-Bontoft
- Job title
- Deputy Designate Nurse Safeguarding
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07976 736428
- Additional information
Available from 9-5 Monday to Friday
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