# Safeguarding Adults Lead Nurse (or Professional)

**Company**: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £75,328 to £86,114 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The post holder will provide leadership, expert safeguarding advice, and management support. They will work with the Head of Safeguarding Adults and the wider safeguarding team to continually improve and develop safeguarding adults services, aligning with the Trust's strategic aims and the local and national safeguarding agenda.

The successful candidate will undertake relevant projects as required. They will identify areas for service improvement through the use of a working knowledge of improvement methodologies. The post-holder will lead service development aimed at improving quality, including patient and carer experience of specialist care, concentrating on delivering a holistic and person-centred approach and promotion of good professional practice.

The post holder will work in collaboration with the Head of safeguarding adults on risk management, patient safety, and clinical governance issues within the context of safeguarding adults. The post holder will foster a culture of prevention, early and accurate identification, and management of safeguarding concerns for the organisation.

**Main duties of the job**

- Provide professional leadership, consultancy, advice, risk assessment, and expert adult protection practice to support practitioners on actions to be taken in order to safeguard an adult at risk.

- Provide leadership to the safeguarding adults service, ensuring a culture which focuses on responsiveness, multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working, and high standards of performance and quality.

- Exercise a high degree of autonomy to make critical decisions and judgements and deliver advanced clinical skills to the case management of vulnerable adults with complex safeguarding needs.

- Provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive, and highly contentious information where a wide range of skills including persuasion, motivation, negotiation, empathy, and reassurance are required.

**Job responsibilities**

- Work with the Head of Safeguarding Adults and wider safeguarding team to identify areas for service improvement using a sound knowledge of service improvement methodology.

- Ensure that the safeguarding perspective is considered within all service improvement programmes, particularly in relation to quality and safety, patient and parent experience, and engagement.

- Communicate with a wide range of stakeholders at Trust, local, and national levels, including patients and carers, clinicians, senior management, representing the safeguarding adults agenda for the organisation.

- Support the implementation of systems, control processes, and risk management arrangements to support monitoring of compliance with safeguarding standards, clinical governance standards, other Trust-wide policies, and best practice requirements.

**Person Specification**

- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in a specialist area.

- In-depth knowledge of safeguarding-related legislation, including MCA/DoLS, Care Act 2024, Domestic Abuse Act.

- Experience in leading safeguarding systems and managing change.

- Experience of managing and motivating a team.

## Skills

### Required
- safeguarding
- leadership
- risk management
- clinical governance
- communication
- team management

### Nice to have
- management/leadership qualification
- experience of board-level reporting and participation/attendance at Safeguarding Adult Boards
- experience of identifying and interpreting National policy in relation to safeguarding adults

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