Job summary
This is a new and exciting role offering applicants an opportunity to explore the Safeguarding agendas and wider Quality team. Applicants will need a basic working knowledge of Safeguarding however will be provided with on the job training and support to enhance their knowledge and skill set. This part time role provides applicants with a chance to experience working with the Quality team and developing within a Band 6 role.
Applicants should have an interest in helping ECCH staff with Safeguarding concerns and a willingness to support the Named Nurse in delivering training. The successful applicant should be a good communicator as they will be required to facilitate and encourage staff to talk about Safeguarding concerns and challenging cases.
They will be a registered practitioner (Registered nurse or AHP) and have worked at Band 5 level or above. They will be required to demonstrate their experience of working in complex and challenging clinical scenarios and a basic application of Safeguarding principles.
This role will be 7.5 hours per week (pro rata). Please note the banding for this role is subject to Agenda for Change job matching and will be confirmed once completed.
Main duties of the job
To support the Named Nurse for safeguarding in providing high quality advice, guidance, oversight, and training to enable the workforce to fulfil their duty to safeguard people at risk of harm and abuse. This may be facilitating small sessions within clinical services or delivery at Corporate Induction. The post holder will be given additional training and support to be able to undertake these sessions. They will also provide day to day advice to ECCH staff, signposting were appropriate to other agencies/external partners.
To monitor the incident reporting system (QUEST) and email system for safeguarding alerts/referrals and follow up as required. They may be required to link in with clinical services or individuals to gain further information, including on occasions meeting patients and their families.
To support with the presentation of highly complex and sensitive information related to safeguards in both written and verbal format. The applicant would attend the bimonthly Quality Committee supported by the Named Nurse and monthly Clinical Quality meeting
To support the development of a network of safeguard champions across the organisation. This would involve identifying champions across the clinical services and coordinating a peer support network across ECCH.
About us
ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders.
We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.
At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.
We encourage you to apply as early as possible as this job may close earlier than the advertised closing date once enough applications have been received.
The Quality Team is a small but friendly service providing expert support and advice to all ECCH staff. It comprises a number of specialist areas - Patient Safety, Infection Prevention, Clinical Education and Research and includes the Safeguarding team. The team are extremely supportive of each other and work together collaboratively to ensure patients, their families and the staff that deliver services are supported and safe. The team meet regularly with a programme of team building and Quality Strategy development throughout the year.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communication
Liaise with staff on
safeguarding adult issues providing specialist advice and information to ensure
consistency across the organisation.
Continually
develop and support a culture of understanding and acceptance of personal responsibility
for safeguarding adults.
Provide effective and appropriate support to staff,
patients and carers following a suspicion of or a disclosure of abuse and/or
neglect.
Support dissemination of
learning from safeguarding incidents and inform development of policies and
processes as necessary.
Effectively
communicate with multi-professional and multi-agency teams.
Responsibilities
Act
as a visible, effective role model for safeguarding adults, raising the profile
of safeguarding, domestic abuse, mental capacity act, deprivation of Liberty
safeguards and the mental health act across all staff groups.
Maintain
positive working relationships through effective communication with all people
using appropriate formats.
Work
independently under indirect supervision to promote effective safeguarding
adults practice.
Provide
planned, ad hoc, and opportunistic safeguarding support to clinical staff
across the organisation.
Where
appropriate, assist with delivery of safeguarding training.
Develop
and support a network of safeguarding champions to provide a point of contact
within teams across the organisation for safeguarding support and guidance.
Contribute
to audit processes or systems to measure and achieve high standards of clinical
quality in relation to safeguarding.
To
participate in annual appraisal and supervision.
To
work in adherence with the organisations policies and procedures.
All roles within East Coast Community
Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our Values and Signature
Behaviours in the care and service they provide to patients, service users,
stakeholders and colleagues. All members of staff should consider these as an
essential part of their job role.
Our
Values outline the core behaviours that we can all achieve and are summarised
as an acronym within the word CARE.
These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.
Underpinning
our Values are our Signature Behaviours which highlight by taking the right
actions we continue to build a strong culture.
Our four Signature Behaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communication
Liaise with staff on
safeguarding adult issues providing specialist advice and information to ensure
consistency across the organisation.
Continually
develop and support a culture of understanding and acceptance of personal responsibility
for safeguarding adults.
Provide effective and appropriate support to staff,
patients and carers following a suspicion of or a disclosure of abuse and/or
neglect.
Support dissemination of
learning from safeguarding incidents and inform development of policies and
processes as necessary.
Effectively
communicate with multi-professional and multi-agency teams.
Responsibilities
Act
as a visible, effective role model for safeguarding adults, raising the profile
of safeguarding, domestic abuse, mental capacity act, deprivation of Liberty
safeguards and the mental health act across all staff groups.
Maintain
positive working relationships through effective communication with all people
using appropriate formats.
Work
independently under indirect supervision to promote effective safeguarding
adults practice.
Provide
planned, ad hoc, and opportunistic safeguarding support to clinical staff
across the organisation.
Where
appropriate, assist with delivery of safeguarding training.
Develop
and support a network of safeguarding champions to provide a point of contact
within teams across the organisation for safeguarding support and guidance.
Contribute
to audit processes or systems to measure and achieve high standards of clinical
quality in relation to safeguarding.
To
participate in annual appraisal and supervision.
To
work in adherence with the organisations policies and procedures.
All roles within East Coast Community
Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our Values and Signature
Behaviours in the care and service they provide to patients, service users,
stakeholders and colleagues. All members of staff should consider these as an
essential part of their job role.
Our
Values outline the core behaviours that we can all achieve and are summarised
as an acronym within the word CARE.
These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.
Underpinning
our Values are our Signature Behaviours which highlight by taking the right
actions we continue to build a strong culture.
Our four Signature Behaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in the community
- Experience of working with vulnerable adults
- Application of legislation, policies, procedures
Desirable
- NHS or other healthcare environment
- Experience working with children and families.
- Understands the role of the care Quality Commission
- Experience of delivering training
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Self-disciplined, approachable, diplomatic and composed
- Highly motivated
- Assertive
- Discrete
- Must be able to work autonomously and as a team
- Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours:
- (Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together).
- Willingness and ability to work across different sites and travel to alternative sites and across the community as required.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Good knowledge of the principles of adult safeguarding and the safeguarding framework as outlined in the Care Act 2014
- Presentation skills, with good written and oral communication skills
- Effective report writing, including presentation of data.
- Demonstrate competency with word applications and databases.
- Ability to analyse and problem solve
- Effective presentation skills
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Evidence of Continuous professional development
Desirable
- Familiarity with risk management/incident reporting databases
- Ability to adapt to change
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Health Professional
- Degree level or equivalent professional qualification
Desirable
- Teaching/mentoring qualification
- Evidence of Level 4 Safeguarding Training
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in the community
- Experience of working with vulnerable adults
- Application of legislation, policies, procedures
Desirable
- NHS or other healthcare environment
- Experience working with children and families.
- Understands the role of the care Quality Commission
- Experience of delivering training
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Self-disciplined, approachable, diplomatic and composed
- Highly motivated
- Assertive
- Discrete
- Must be able to work autonomously and as a team
- Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours:
- (Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together).
- Willingness and ability to work across different sites and travel to alternative sites and across the community as required.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Good knowledge of the principles of adult safeguarding and the safeguarding framework as outlined in the Care Act 2014
- Presentation skills, with good written and oral communication skills
- Effective report writing, including presentation of data.
- Demonstrate competency with word applications and databases.
- Ability to analyse and problem solve
- Effective presentation skills
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Evidence of Continuous professional development
Desirable
- Familiarity with risk management/incident reporting databases
- Ability to adapt to change
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Health Professional
- Degree level or equivalent professional qualification
Desirable
- Teaching/mentoring qualification
- Evidence of Level 4 Safeguarding Training
Disclosure 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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure 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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
