Director of Safeguarding

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Director of Safeguarding will:

Work as part of a dynamic team delivering an effective service, supporting managers and clinicians across NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Berkshire West (BOB).

The post holder will have responsibility for the strategic and operational, development and delivery of safeguarding plans, including the safeguarding element of the Joint Forward Plan 2023 28 across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Berkshire West. Plans to achieve the strategy will be underpinned by the delivery of short to medium term objectives.

Key aspects of this role will be to:

Lead the safeguarding team within the ICB, supporting them to fulfil their statutory and strategic responsibilities within their allocated place-based locality and with effective development and support.

Deputise for the Chief Nursing Officer as necessary and provide the CNO with effective advice and support on all matters relating to safeguarding, LAC, UASC and CL.

Use their advanced communication, influencing and strategic leadership skills to inform and influence the local, regional, and national agenda for safeguarding, ensuring services improve the health of children, LAC, UASC, CL and adults at risk as defined in the Care Act, 2014 as well as protecting them from the risk of abuse or neglect.

Ensure the safeguarding strategy and Joint Forward Plan is formulated, understood by all stakeholders, and is delivered utilising all available resources efficiently and effectively.

Ensure the development and management of short-, medium-, and long-term plans, programmes of work and working groups across NHS BOB and BOB ICS.

Ensure the plans and programmes of work are delivered, monitored, and evaluated for impact and outcomes by working effectively alongside and with other Directors within NHSBOB and across BOB ICS within agreed timescales.

Ensure appropriate systems, policies and processes are in place to enable the implementation of the strategic plans in the newly amalgamated NHS BOB ICB/ICS.

Proactively identify and manage the key safeguarding risks, concerns and issues and ensure appropriate actions are taken to mitigate and/or respond.

Lead on integrated care system safeguarding.

The senior responsible officer for Child Protection Information System and Liberty Protection Safeguards implementation.

Establish, manage, and monitor a governance structure for BOB ICB to demonstrate maturity progress against the Safeguarding children, young people, and adults at risk in the NHS Safeguarding accountability and assurance framework: July 2022.

Manage the budgetary implications of activity.

Person Specification

Competencies

Essential

• Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media.
• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
• Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
• Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
• Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives.
• Ability to manage a significant budget.
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
• Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
• Ability to delegate effectively.
• Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required.
• Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda.

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
• Registered Nurse/Midwife/AHP.

Experience

Essential

• Proven and significant leadership experience at Designate/Deputy Director level with responsibility and accountability for safeguarding.
• Significant evidence of continued professional development, within safeguarding.
• Demonstrated expertise and understanding of all aspects of safeguarding, children and adults and the responsibilities across a system.
• Significant management experience at senior level, leading a team.
• Proven senior level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
• Proven experience working at a senior level across multi agency partners.
• Understand health care commissioning and be able to demonstrate an understanding of the responsibilities within an ICB/ICS.
• Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies.
• Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments.
• Experience in leading a major change initiative with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment.
• Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring staff to work together to achieve a common objective.

Attributes

Essential

• Dynamic personality and the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context like the NHS in the Southeast.
• Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
• Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB

Address

Sandford Gate Office

Littlemore

Oxford

OX4 6LB

Employer's website

https://www.bucksoxonberksw.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)