Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified,
experienced, and motivated safeguarding practitioner to join our high
performing and supportive ICB Safeguarding Team.
Please note you must hold a Professional Registration Nursing, Midwifery, AHP with extensive post registration experience, to be considered for this role.
We are seeking a candidate who
has a commitment to improving outcomes for adults and children through enabling
safeguarding systems and colleagues to work together in practice. The
successful candidate will provide support to the safeguarding leadership within
the Integrated Care System (ICS) and across Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire and Berkshire
West Integrated Care Board ( BOB ICB) exhibiting excellent leadership and
communication skills supporting all adult/child safeguarding activities, to
ensure that healthcare providers and the BOB ICB meet their safeguarding
statutory responsibilities.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will
support delivery of transformational change and quality improvement within and
across local systems. A proven ability to work in a cross-cutting
multi-organisational setting to facilitate multi agency working and wider organisational
change is vital.
Advanced communication and
interpersonal skills are essential, as is demonstrable experience of
multi-agency working. The successful candidate will have the ability to think,
act and respond to changing circumstances whilst maintaining a clear view of overall
priorities.
The post will be Berkshire
West based with an expectation of some travel within the system footprint and
agile working.
If you would like to have an
informal conversation ahead of the appointments process, please contact either
Louise Pegg Louise.pegg@nhs.net 07467
332311 or Lianne Lewis 07899 633610 lianne.lewis@nhs.net
Please
note the closing date is 5th March
About us
NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and
Berkshire West (BOB) Integrated Care Board is the statutory NHS organisation
responsible for planning and delivering health and care services for the
communities of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West.
We work collaboratively with partner
organisations including local government, the voluntary, community and social
enterprise sector, and people and communities across the BOB Health and Care
Integrated Care System (ICS).
Our key priorities are to
increase healthy life expectancy and reduce health inequalities for the 1.7
million people who live in our communities.
We value and promote diversity
and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best
employers are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to
increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications
from women, people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBT
communities, younger candidates and from people with lived experience of
disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.
Our Values are:
Respectful
we are inclusive
Impactful
we make a difference
Integrity
we are kind and fair
Leadership
we encourage leadership
Collaborative
we work together in a positive way
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will uphold the values of the organisation and lead
by example
supporting a working culture across the ICB from a commissioning and safeguarding perspective founded
on:
Working collaboratively
with Integrated Care Board teams, Providers
and
Partners.
Striving in everything we do
to ensure high quality care.
Effective clinical leadership and constructive
clinical challenge.
With the Designated Nurse Children, LAC
& Head of Safeguarding
Adults you will
take
a professional
lead
on all aspects
of
the health
services contribution to safeguarding.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will uphold the values of the organisation and lead
by example
supporting a working culture across the ICB from a commissioning and safeguarding perspective founded
on:
Working collaboratively
with Integrated Care Board teams, Providers
and
Partners.
Striving in everything we do
to ensure high quality care.
Effective clinical leadership and constructive
clinical challenge.
With the Designated Nurse Children, LAC
& Head of Safeguarding
Adults you will
take
a professional
lead
on all aspects
of
the health
services contribution to safeguarding.
Person Specification
Autonomy
Essential
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
Equality & Diversity
Essential
- The promotion of equality of opportunity and good working relations (providing practical leadership) ensure own actions contribute to the maintenance of a quality service provision.
Experience
Essential
- Must have experience of working in the operation and practice of Safeguarding.
- Ability to demonstrate understanding of the principles of safeguarding and Mental Capacity Act and its link with vulnerable adults and children.
- Receive and communicate information relating to patient safety, which may impact on commissioned services.
- Awareness of health inequalities which impact on vulnerable adults and children due to the determinates of health which may have a negative impact on health and wellbeing.
- Experience of working within a leadership role.
- Ability to achieve targets and objectives within a demanding and pressured environment against challenging deadlines.
- Experience of successfully managing change.
Communication Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication, presentation and report writing skills.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to consider the wider picture and the impact on service.
- IT/word processing and clinical audit skills. Well-developed problem-solving skills and ability to respond to sudden demands.
- Experience of multi-agency/partnership working.
- To be able to demonstrate an
- understanding and commitment to equality of opportunity.
- Inspires others and leads by example.
- Act as ambassador for the organisation. Able to conduct oneself, in all aspects of the role, as a highly professional role
- model.
- Committed to the continuous developmentof staff and self.
- Commitment to developing culture of openness and partnership.
- High self-awareness, understanding own emotions, strengths, and limitations.
- Positive approach to work.
- Team Player.
- Embraces and facilitates a culture of change.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement.
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders
- Experience of managing a team without direct line management
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional registration Nursing,
- Midwifery, AHP with extensive post registration experience.
- Professional experience of safeguardingchildren and adults at risk of abuse and neglect and exploitation.
- Evidence of on-going professional development in relation to safeguarding.
- Knowledge across a range of procedures underpinned by theory and practice and implementation of the Mental Capacity Act and Looked After Children.
Analytical
Essential
- Ability to analyse very 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
Person Specification
Autonomy
Essential
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
Equality & Diversity
Essential
- The promotion of equality of opportunity and good working relations (providing practical leadership) ensure own actions contribute to the maintenance of a quality service provision.
Experience
Essential
- Must have experience of working in the operation and practice of Safeguarding.
- Ability to demonstrate understanding of the principles of safeguarding and Mental Capacity Act and its link with vulnerable adults and children.
- Receive and communicate information relating to patient safety, which may impact on commissioned services.
- Awareness of health inequalities which impact on vulnerable adults and children due to the determinates of health which may have a negative impact on health and wellbeing.
- Experience of working within a leadership role.
- Ability to achieve targets and objectives within a demanding and pressured environment against challenging deadlines.
- Experience of successfully managing change.
Communication Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication, presentation and report writing skills.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to consider the wider picture and the impact on service.
- IT/word processing and clinical audit skills. Well-developed problem-solving skills and ability to respond to sudden demands.
- Experience of multi-agency/partnership working.
- To be able to demonstrate an
- understanding and commitment to equality of opportunity.
- Inspires others and leads by example.
- Act as ambassador for the organisation. Able to conduct oneself, in all aspects of the role, as a highly professional role
- model.
- Committed to the continuous developmentof staff and self.
- Commitment to developing culture of openness and partnership.
- High self-awareness, understanding own emotions, strengths, and limitations.
- Positive approach to work.
- Team Player.
- Embraces and facilitates a culture of change.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement.
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders
- Experience of managing a team without direct line management
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional registration Nursing,
- Midwifery, AHP with extensive post registration experience.
- Professional experience of safeguardingchildren and adults at risk of abuse and neglect and exploitation.
- Evidence of on-going professional development in relation to safeguarding.
- Knowledge across a range of procedures underpinned by theory and practice and implementation of the Mental Capacity Act and Looked After Children.
Analytical
Essential
- Ability to analyse very 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
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).
