Head of Safeguarding, MH, LD & Complex Vulnerable Adults and Children

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be someone with excellent leadership and communication skills who can positively engage with patients, families, staff, senior multi-disciplinary leadership teams and other partners, continually innovating and driving forward the Trusts shared vision of continuous improvement, providing safe, effective, and high-quality care for all our service users.

The Head of Safeguarding, Mental Health, Learning Disabilities & Complex vulnerable adults & children is responsible for RWT & WHT (Group) oversight and leadership of Safeguarding, Learning Disability and management, leadership and oversight of Mental Health Services. You will ensure that our most vulnerable child and adult patients are safeguarded and ensure they receive the right response to protect them, in the right place and by staff who are skilled, competent and sensitive towards their needs. You will also retain oversight of all patients in the Trusts detained under the Mental Health Act, to ensure statutory obligations are fulfilled.

You will be the Group representative across the system-wide safeguarding and Mental Health partnerships to support effective multi-agency working for safeguarding, Mental Health & learning disability practice. You will be responsible for providing assurance via the Groups governance structure to the Executive Board and external partner agencies regarding compliance against all appropriate professional, organisational and national regulation standards.

The role requires you to be responsible for ensuring the provision and delivery of training in: statutory safeguarding, the Mental Capacity Act, PREVENT and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguarding training across the Group. You will act as the Groups representative for stakeholder groups as required. You will have overall responsibility for the oversight and assurance for RWT/WHT statutory functions of Safeguarding, Mental Health Act, Learning Disabilities and Complex Adults & Children

Being flexible, proactive, responsive and sensitive to the needs of both staff and service users is essential alongside demonstrating kindness and civility in your approach to leading both the agenda and teams.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• oRegistered Mental Health Nurse - with current NMC Registration and no restrictions on practice
• oMaster's degree in Nursing, leadership or management or relevant subject or evidence of practical application of expertise at this level
• oPost-graduate qualification within a leadership programme/study or evidence of practical application of expertise at this level
• oCurrent working knowledge of the mental health act compliance

Desirable

• oEvidence of continuing personal and professional development in line with intercollegiate guidance to level 4 for Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Adults

Experience/Skills

Essential

• oExperience of senior professional management and leadership in a large and/or complex healthcare setting
• oExtensive experience of senior professional leadership of Mental health services
• oDemonstrable experience of safeguarding legislation
• oDemonstrable experience of leading improvements in clinical settings, patient care and experience across multiple specialities
• oKnowledge and experience of human resources management, communicating highly-complex and contentious information to individuals and large groups
• oExperience of managing budgets and financial resources, including the associated processes such as budget setting and financial planning.
• oExperience of workforce planning and recruitment and retention strategies - budget and resources
• oDemonstrable evidence of highly specialist knowledge of the professional leadership and management of clinical teams
• oIn depth knowledge of the clinical governance agenda including clinical risk and safety
• oUp-to-date with current clinical nursing practice including own area of expertise, to enable deliver of direct patient care if/when required
• oShares leadership with and is respected by clinical and non-clinical staff
• oInfluencing a wide range of stakeholders
• oDemonstrates a clear understanding of and continuing acceptance of the need for financial governance and probity
• oAbility to produce clear, accurate, written and verbal reports

Desirable

• oFamiliarity with IT applications including e-Rostering

Communication Skills

Essential

• oHighly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations
• oAbility to establish credibility and develop maintain effective working relationships at Executive and senior management levels
• oHas strong influencing and negotiating skills
• oExcellent communicator - providing authentic and clear communication and direction even in times of uncertainty/ambiguity
• oCan engage with and lead a team, and work as part of a team

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.

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

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

Walsall

WS2 9PS

Employer's website

https://walsallhealthcare.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)