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Head of Safeguarding
| Posting date: | 24 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £58,972.00 to £68,525.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £58972.00 - £68525.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 August 2024 |
| Location: | Fulwood, PR2 9HT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9438-24-0745 |
Summary
Lead the Childrens, Maternity and Adults Safeguarding services providing leadership and direction to Named Professionals and safeguarding leads within the Trust. Lead the Safeguarding Service across the organisation, working with key internal and external stakeholders to deliver a comprehensive and cohesive safe and effective safeguarding service for the Trust. Provide professional leadership in the co-ordination, monitoring and evaluation of all aspects of the safeguarding children and adults at risk services. To provide expert level of knowledge, leadership and professional advice in relation to safeguarding vulnerable children and adults at risk, using lessons learnt from national and local case reviews, best practice evidence and research. Provide visible, accessible and authoritative presence within the Trust in regard to Safeguarding Children, MARAC, Domestic Abuse and Harmful Practices, Adults at Risk, Mental Capacity, Deprivation of Liberties, PREVENT, and Child Sexual Exploitation. Ensure robust processes are in place to enable the Trust to participate in case reviews (Serious Case reviews, Safeguarding Adults Reviews, Practice Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews) from initial scoping, management review and analysis through to the development, implementation and monitoring of action plans. To be responsible for implementation, maintenance and development of effective and efficient systems for the detection, prevention, surveillance, investigation and control of harm and abuse in partnership with multi-disciplinary Safeguarding teams. To lead the Trust safeguarding meetings, ensuring the Trust safeguarding committee is fully informed about both agendas and issues arising from these. To ensure all governance and risk associated with the Safeguarding agenda is identified and mitigation is in place to minimise risk. To ensure compliance with the key performance indicators for the service. Responsible for operational management of Safeguarding named and lead professionals. A high degree of effective communication, networking and liaison will be required to establish and maintain good working relationships and networks within the health economy and other agencies. To provide to and receive from others highly specialist, complex and highly sensitive information in relation to safeguarding vulnerable adults and children to senior managers, external agencies and staff within a variety of contexts and situations. Be the responsible lead for learning disability, autism and mental health within the organisation. Become a LeDer trained reviewer and work with the mortality and end of life care board and clinical leads to ensure care for mental health, autism and learning disabilities is delivered with a personcentred approach. Lead on a number of corporate areas of responsibility to be determined as organisational needs.