Specialist Lead Safeguarding Adults - Huyton, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Huyton, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Specialist Lead - Safeguarding Adult's within our Mersey Care Safeguarding Team.

The Safeguarding Adults team supporting our Mental Health Division are looking for a highly motivated individual to join an established team working across Mersey Care footprint.

The post holder must have the ability to support staff in complex cases and to work closely with the Named Professional Safeguarding Adults to ensure that, in order to improve outcomes for adults at risk, the Trust has a suitably skilled workforce who are confident in undertaking their safeguarding responsibilities.

To undertake the role you must have experience of undertaking or contributing to Section 42 enquires, report writing, delivering training, monitoring progress against action plans, undertaking audit and giving safeguarding support and advice as key elements of the role.

The post holder will provide safeguarding adults expertise and advice in the treatment of highly complex conditions and / or situations.

In addition the post holder will use their expertise to be a source of training and mentorship to those within Mersey Care and as necessary and as per commissioning arrangements, more widely.

The nature of the role will mean that you will be exposed to highly sensitive information and deal with highly emotive situations involving vulnerable people.

There may be occasions where the post holder will need to respond urgently to a situation, prioritising and negotiating the work load with senior managers and outside agencies.

The role will involve partnership work with other agencies and representing the Trust in various forums/meetings.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services.

Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient.

We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.

We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Act as a lead specialist on safeguarding and provide support, advice and guidance in the treatment and/or management of others, when dealing with complex conditions and/or situations, adhering to national guidance and local policy.

Work in partnership with the other services/stakeholder partnership agencies to enable patients/clients to be given appropriate treatment in the appropriate setting.

Undertake complex investigations in relation to safeguarding making recommendations as required.

Develop partnerships and joint working with service users and stakeholders to improve patient/client care; this will include attendance at the Safeguarding Adults Board subgroups.

Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules / working patterns to ensure business continuity.
Organise and plan own lead area work streams.

Work in partnership with other organisations, including statutory organisations to support the effective and co-ordinated provision of health and social care services.

Communicate at all levels of the organisation to a variety of health and social care professionals to provide best outcomes for patients/clients.

Provide support and advice to those staff managing complex and vulnerable adults on their caseloads.
Challenge professional and organisational boundaries to ensure that the role is focused on meeting the needs of service users.
Act as a role model to others ensuring that patients receive the most effective care possible.
Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision making.
Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to others when managing complex and highly complex situations. Where required refer to other specialists to contribute to ensure the most appropriate management of a service user.

Assess patient conditions / situations and consider a range of options when advising in relation to complex and highly complex care, drawing on specialist services as required.