South Devon Healthcare jobs

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust endorses the Think Family approach to safeguarding through placing emphasis on the integration of adult and children workers to address the needs of all family members, upholding family values by working ‘with’ our children, young people and families and professional networks.

We have an exciting opportunity for a job share - Safeguarding Adults Lead and Prevent, and we are welcoming applications from suitably qualified staff who are passionate and motivated to make a difference to our most vulnerable adults and families.

The post holder will provide leadership for Oxleas safeguarding adult and Prevent policies and procedures including assurance that the trust is compliant with all statutory requirements under legislation.

The post holder will have a key responsibility for the coordination, management, implementation and monitoring of the trust’s strategy for safeguarding adults.

The post holder will monitor safeguarding adult activity, developing robust consistent safeguarding practice in line with best practice and statutory requirements.

The post holder will provide expert advice, supervision and support on safeguarding adult matters, working together with liaising with key professionals and partner agencies.

The post holder will actively contribute towards the quality and assurance agenda including training, audit, collection and analysis of relevant data.

The post holder will contribute to Safeguarding children practice reviews, Domestic homicide reviews, Safeguarding Adult reviews, Learning reviews and Serious incident investigations.

The post holder will work in close partnership with external stakeholders towards ensuring effective safeguarding arrangements.

The post holder will lead and have line management responsibility for Specialist safeguarding nurses/ practitioners.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

We’re Kind
We’re Fair
We Listen
We Care

We will only deliver outstanding care to our patients if we take the best possible care of our staff. We want our people to be given opportunities to develop and thrive and to feel supported to give their best every day. We want every person in Oxleas to be treated kindly, fairly and with care.

To provide clinical leadership and expert advice and support on safeguarding children to all Oxleas staff

To ensure that staff are fully aware of their statutory responsibilities to safeguard children, young people and adults at risk

To ensure the delivery of the safeguarding children service locally and assist the Head of safeguarding to ensure provision across the trust

To contribute to Safeguarding children practice reviews, Domestic homicide reviews, Safeguarding adult reviews and other types of reviews including investigating and writing the Individual Management Reviews for the Trust

To provide safeguarding children specialist advice and support to the investigation of serious incidents, internal case reviews and any complaints

To ensure that all local recommendations are fed into service action plans and that learning is embedded in practice

To provide advice and support to staff where there are professional differences of opinion in multi-agency decision making about children and families and to support with escalation process

To recognise and support managers in identifying any competency issues practitioners have in relation to safeguarding work

To develop and promote collaborative interagency working on all issues relating to safeguarding children and young people and overall safeguarding practice

To work in close liaison with senior colleagues in partner agencies including Designated safeguarding professionals, Named doctors and Safeguarding champions

To identify opportunities for service development and develop business plans