Health and Community Services

Named Nurse Safeguarding-Adults-80k-85k-JERSEY

The closing date is 22 July 2025

Job summary

Health and Care Jersey HCJ is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk across healthcare services on the Island.

We are looking for a highly motivated dynamic and passionate individual with proven experience of working within adult safeguarding. The right person willprovide professional expert advice, leadership and management skills tosupport HCJ staff to ensure best practice.

The post holder will workalongside multi agency partners, influencing best practice, providing assurance and best outcomes.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a small team who are dedicated in promoting safeguarding and wellbeing of vulnerable adults at risk. The post holder will be responsible for providing specialist advice, support, training, safeguarding supervision and monitoring systems in developing and embedding safeguarding across HCJ.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have a key role in developing and embedding safeguarding leadership and excellent professional practice across Health and Care Jersey HCJ. This is an Island wide role across all services and ensure colleagues are supported and confident in their safeguarding responsibilities. The role will include working alongside the Named Nurse Safeguarding Children and team members to develop a robust culture of safeguarding practice across Health and Care Jersey and the wider health systems. They will ensure there is an effective safeguarding governance framework in place and promote effective multi agency working supporting other safeguarding health leads to promote safeguarding. The post holder will provide specialist safeguarding advice and assistance in individual cases where there are serious concerns about unmet physical and emotional health needs for adults assisting partnering agencies in identifying creative solutions to overcome obstacles and achieve appropriate resolutions and positive outcomes. Participate and carry out safeguarding reviews, assessments and analysis of data or information from a wide range of different sources and provide a pivotal role in the design, delivery and evaluation of safeguarding training for all staff across Health and Care Jersey, and community based health provider settings.

About us

We want you to be your best, and we know that to achieve this we need to support the whole you. Thats why our offer is much more than pay and pension.A career with the Jersey Public Service comes with a range of benefits, as well as offering the opportunity to make a tangible impact on the lives of Islanders. When you join us, youre stepping into a role where your work makes a real difference - and where youll be recognised, supported, and empowered along the way.We offer various benefits and initiatives designed to help you grow, thrive, and balance your personal and professional life, which reflects our commitment to being an extraordinary place to build your career.

Date posted

09 July 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£80,000 to £85,000 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

K0011-2962

Job locations

Government Of Jersey

Union Street

St. Helier

Jersey

JE2 3DN

Job description

Job responsibilities

Provide professional leadership and be accountable as Named Nurse for Adults safeguarding for the management and co-ordination of safeguarding of adults across the healthcare community representing Health and Care Jersey

Provide high quality, evidence based safeguarding advice to staff, which is in line with current legislative guidelines and best practice.

Provide a pivotal role in safeguarding training for all staff across both the hospital and community-based health provider settings

Provide advice and guidance in relation to complaints, complex cases and cases identified as high-level risk.

Provide a visible and accessible presence across the island.

Develop, review and update safeguarding policies and procedures.

The Named Nurse will be responsible for the line management of the Safeguarding Adults Advisor. Work in collaboration with partner agencies.

Responsible for the design, implementation, delivery and evaluation of safeguarding training for staff across the organisation.

Responsible for the development, update and delivery of the safeguarding training strategy and Matrix

Responsible to lead in the development and delivery of safeguarding supervision.

Provide Quarterly and annual assurance reports for Governance committee

Provide safeguarding supervision to Safeguarding Advisor and specialist safeguarding staff.

To assist in the development of the safeguarding strategy and promotion of safeguarding as part of everyday clinical and non-clinical practice.

To support, lead and oversee safeguarding audits. This includes supporting implementation and recommendations highlighted by the audit and/or formulating any training needs for staff and /or review of training.

Responsible for completing Independent Managers Reviews, Rapid Reviews, learning reviews, and other reviews and ensure recommendations and lessons learned from Reviews are disseminated and embedded into practice.

Completion of Independent Managers Reviews, Rapid Reviews, learning reviews, and other reviews

Work in collaboration with other Named Professionals to provide direct support to departmental leads.

Ensure HCJ is kept up to date with legislative changes, safeguarding updates, relevant evidence-based information, via communications and intranet pages.

Provide direct support to the Safeguarding Adult Advisor in embedding a safeguarding culture across the organisation.

Work alongside Named professionals and Lead Nurses in the monitoring of quality improvement as part of quality assurance framework for safeguarding.

Ensure an integrated approach across all service providers for shared learning, to improve quality of service delivery and prevent untoward incidents from reoccurring.

Collaboratively working with the Named Nurse Childrens Safeguarding and the Safeguarding Advisors, to ensure roles develop and complement each other to ensure appropriate cover is provided at all times