Lead Practitioner Adult Safeguarding, Prevent - London, United Kingdom - Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are looking for an individual with significant expertise in adult safeguarding to lead our enthusiastic team. This role will be working Trust wide supporting patients, families & staff to ensure adult safeguarding needs are met.

There is a need for the individual to engage with external partners across a number of London boroughs, & to gain support through the NWL adult safeguarding network.

Close working with our children's safeguarding, mental health & domestic abuse teams is a key part of this role.

Provide leadership to the safeguarding & learning disability team.
Support patients, families & staff where there is an adult safeguarding need or concern, or the patient or parent/ carer has a learning disability, providing expert advice
Review training provision & participate in providing training to staff
Engage with teams Trust wide & external partners through Safeguarding Boards, sub groups, networks for safeguarding & Prevent
Ensure the Trust is meeting national & local requirements for adult safeguarding, Prevent & LD recognising changing legislation & shared learning
Lead the Trust in developing roles & guidance with the introduction of Liberty Protection Safeguards

We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have over 6,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people.

Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country.

We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff say they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

In 2020 the Trust was rated by the Care Quality Commission as Outstanding in the well-led and use of resources domains and Good in the safe, effective, caring, and responsive domains.

The Trust as a whole was Good, but the Chelsea site was Outstanding.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate.

We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children's unit at West Middlesex - in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.

This role will lead in ensuring safeguarding practices are followed for those patients receiving care within the organisation.
Participate in Serious Incident Reviews/ SARS in relation to patients with safeguarding needs working with the Safeguarding Adult Executive Boards, & supporting the team to participate
To undertake LeDeR reviews as required following training & support the team in undertaking

these reviews

Ensure visibility in clinical areas and act as a resource to empower staff, service users, patients and carers to access appropriate services.
Lead the data collection & providing essential information as required by the Trust & external agencies, including quarterly reports to Trust safeguarding committee & designated nurses.
Provide supervision to staff & attend supervision with designated nurses to ensure support with this mentally & emotionally challenging caseload.
Work closely with patients & families with complex needs, liaising with external service providers and legal services where required
Lead and participate in Best Interests Meetings when required to ensure the best outcomes for patients
Undertake annual training needs analysis to ensure appropriate staff are receiving appropriate

levels of safeguarding adult training in line with most recent guidance.
Develop safeguarding adult training content both online and in person/ virtual to meet national requirements for each level of training

Support the development of learning disability training in line with new national guidance, including the Oliver McGowan mandatory training, working with colleagues across the ICB.

Work with NHSE Prevent Leads & colleagues across NWL/ London to develop Prevent/ WRAP training for staff

Provide training for adult safeguarding, learning disability, PREVENT & WRAP through online, face to face and virtual sessions alongside colleagues.

Provide line management to Deputy Lead Nurse Safeguarding Adults & Learning Disability
Undertake annual PDR's with direct reports and provide regular supervision to the team.
Provide professional support to the wider safeguarding team including safeguarding children's & Mental Health teams.