# Named Nurse, Safeguarding Adults

**Company**: Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Chertsey
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £55877.00 to £62626.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a highly motivated and knowledgeable Named Nurse Safeguarding Adults to join our Safeguarding Team and play a pivotal role in ensuring the Trust meets its statutory safeguarding responsibilities while promoting a culture of learning, accountability and patient safety.

As the Named Nurse Safeguarding Adults, you will lead on the development, implementation and delivery of safeguarding adult practices across the Trust. You will provide expert advice, support and leadership to staff, ensuring compliance with national legislation, local procedures and best practice guidance.

Key aspects of the role will be:

- Oversight and scrutiny of Trust responses to S42 (Care Act, 2015) enquiries, liaising with adult social care to ensure good outcomes for patients and shared learning across the Trust is undertaken.

- Oversight and scrutiny of legislation in relation to the Mental Capacity Act, Prevent and Modern Slavery in relation to safeguarding adults.

The postholder will develop effective working relationships with:

- Chief Nurse

- Executive Directors

- Deputy Chief Nurse

- All Trust Staff

- Divisional Managers/Service Managers

- Adult Social Care

- Clinical Commissioning Groups

The post holder will manage their own work within resources agreed with their line manager. The post holder will work on their own initiative, planning, prioritising and organising their own workload. The post holder will have freedom to act autonomously to address safeguarding issues across the Trust within the remit of this role brief.

Responsibilities include:

- Provide highly developed specialist advice to Ashford and St Peter's NHS Foundation Trust Hospitals, advising and supporting staff in the management of potential or actual adult abuse and protection of adults at risk of harm.

- Ensure all policies and procedures relating to safeguarding adults are updated, implemented and adhered to.

- To be involved in preparing reports and action plans in response to safeguarding adult reviews (SARs), national guidance and organisational reviews.

- To support divisional staff, providing specialist expert advice and scrutiny to facilitate good quality reports in relation to Section 42 (Care Act 2015) enquiries.

- To develop a proactive culture towards safeguarding and protecting adults at risk of harm, supporting staff to identify and escalate concerns.

- Act as a liaison between the Trust and other local agencies, contributing to the adult safeguarding services across Surrey.

- Responsible for developing appropriate content for all elements of specialist training in order to safeguard adults at risk of harm and abuse.

- Undertake delivery of specialist training across all staff groups within the Trust.

- Line management of the safeguarding adults clinical practice support worker and safeguarding adults and mental health act administrator.

Benefits include the full range of NHS benefits & discounts.

This is a permanent, job share position with a salary of £55,877 to £62,626 a year.

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## Skills

### Required
- Registered Nurse (RMN/RGN/RNLD)
- Masters level degree or equivalent
- Significant post-registration experience of working with adults at risk in different settings
- Experience of audit/ evaluating clinical practice

### Nice to have
- Additional /professional qualification
- Leadership qualification
- Experience of working with patients/ clients to develop practice

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