Associate Director for Safeguarding Children and - London, United Kingdom - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated safeguarding expert and manager to join our growing and dynamic leadership team enabling the Trust to fulfil its core statutory duties towards adults and children.

This is a key senior manager role, reporting directly to the Director of Social Care, and will be a member of the extended Senior Management Team of the Trust's Directorate of Therapies.

The post-holder is responsible for the leadership and delivery of the Trust's corporate safeguarding service and statutory safeguarding services which include safeguarding children and adults, Prevent Duties and Domestic Violence and Abuse.

The post holder will be required to demonstrate substantial clinical leadership, innovation and independence in a professional context and can problem solve in a complex multi-disciplinary, multi-agency framework.

This is a pivotal role to help shape our safeguarding polices and processes; to define standards and influence the way we think about and practice statutory safeguarding duties and Think Family and how we embed this into our working practices to protect the patients we service.

This role will lead the strategic development of high-quality safeguarding practice across the organisation and provide both executive and operational direction.

You will play a crucial role in developing robust working partnerships with local partners including the Local Safeguarding Adult Boards and Children Safeguarding Partnerships, the Integrated Care Boards, and local authorities to achieve the highest standard of integrated care, and provide assurance of quality and safe care.

By coming to work at SLaM, you will gain experience of being part of an organisation with a rich history and international reputation in mental health care.

You will have access to professional development and learning opportunities, and have the chance to work alongside people who are world leaders in their field.

SLaM delivered more than 14,000 training experiences in 2014; providing an extensive range of learning opportunities for staff at all levels.

In addition, our working relationship with King's Health Partners allows those working at the Trust to get involved in academic research.

To act as the organisation's Safeguarding manager, advising the Trust Board of their corporate responsibilities for safeguarding and setting annual safeguarding priorities and standards for the organisation in line with the Trust's Safeguarding Strategy.
Provide leadership and management of the Trust's Safeguarding leads.
Work in collaboration with the Trust's Patient Safety leads, clinical governance teams, and the Heads of Nursing structure to ensure the Trust is compliant with statutory responsibilities and that safeguarding governance is embedded within patient safety and quality processes, i.e inspection frameworks including CQC and JTAI, PSIRF, and multi-disciplinary staff safeguarding competency and capability.
Develop, implement, and maintain oversight of a trust wide safeguarding audit programme in line with both internal and external safeguarding priorities.
Actively promote and work within a model of multi-disciplinary, multi-agency, integrated practice.
Work with external partners and multi-agency networks to ensure partnership delivery of the safeguarding agenda, including participation in multi-agency audits.
Provide regular assurance to the Trust's Executive Lead for Safeguarding and the Board regarding service performance and developments.
Ensure that the Trust has policy and framework for professionals safeguarding supervision that is reflective and pro-active, and for all members of the Safeguarding Team, and for those staff involved with contentious or serious safeguarding incidents
Ensure that the Trust is compliant with safeguarding training in line with the standards set out within the Intercollegiate documents (for adults and children), and that all relevant staff have access to training in line with their role and responsibilities.
Contribute to and lead when required regional and national service developments relating Safeguarding Services.
Identify and act appropriately regarding incidents of poor practice through the framework of appraisal, management supervision, clinical incident reporting, audit and research.
Ensure the ethos of Think Family is embedded within Trust work and frontline practice around Safeguarding.