Designated Nurse/Professional All Age Safeguarding-Adult focus

Job summary

We are seeking a Designated Professional with experience of working in Safeguarding Adults and Children, who is enthusiastic about joining a Safeguarding Team transitioning to an All Age model. Adult safeguarding is the primary focus for this role.

The role requires Clinician and or Allied Health Professional experience that includes operational/ management/ leadership in Safeguarding.T

he post holder is required to work in collaboration with multiagency, multidisciplinary teams, and will work with partner agencies, health providers, VCFSE at a system level.

Main duties of the job

• The role holder will lead on adult safeguarding with the AD for adult Safeguarding, provide clinical expertise, specialist knowledge, support and supervision on adult safeguarding and associated issues, including domestic abuse, Mental Capacity Act (MCA), Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Prevent and Modern Slavery.
• The role holder will be responsible for provision of training and support to clinical staff within primary care to embed adult safeguarding practice.
• Responsibility includes providing an effective, credible and expert level of clinical support to the Assistant Director Adult Safeguarding ensuring that robust mechanisms are in place, to demonstrate that all aspects of adult safeguarding are applied within provider organisations.
• Work in partnership across HWE ICB with the safeguarding children team to achieve a 'Think Family' approach. This includes achievement of a smooth transition from child to adulthood for young people in care/care leavers.
• Collaborate with multi-agency teams on a strategic and operational level to protect adults at risk, to achieve safe and healthy outcomes.
• Provide assurance to HWE ICB that Providers are robust in safeguarding adults practice.
• Contribute to quality improvement /continuous improvement and patient safety as relevant to role.

About us

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the local NHS organisation that plans and oversees how NHS money is spent and makes sure health services work well and are of high quality.

The ICB's role is to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities for the 1.6 million people who live in Hertfordshire and West Essex.

It's an exciting time for us and we're looking for people who enjoy working in a fast-paced, vibrant environment that can help us achieve our aim.

So if you share our passion for people and want to make a positive change to their health and health services then we want to hear from you.