Adult Safeguarding Lead

To provide expert, evidence-based leadership on all aspects of the Safeguarding Adults agenda to Whittington Health and work in close collaboration with other health service providers, local authorities and private and voluntary sector agencies.

The post holder will be responsible for the strategic development and implementation of the Safeguarding Adults agenda that ensures that the contribution of Whittington Health to safeguarding is in line with national policy and guidance, is consistent across the organisation and coordinated with Haringey and Islington Local Authorities.

To work in collaboration with the Haringey and Islington Local Authorities Safeguarding Adults Boards, North Central London (NCL) Integrated Care Board (ICB) and in line with jointly agreed local, London and national safeguarding adult policies.

The post holder will also lead on ensuring implementation of the Mental Capacity Act requirements across the Trusts clinical services, and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. The post holder will be the lead for PREVENT.

Main duties of the job

To provide expert, evidence-based leadership on all aspects of the Safeguarding Adults agenda to Whittington Health and work in close collaboration with other health service providers, local authorities and private and voluntary sector agencies.

The post holder will be responsible for the strategic development and implementation of the Safeguarding Adults agenda that ensures that the contribution of Whittington Health to safeguarding is in line with national policy and guidance, is consistent across the organisation and coordinated with Haringey and Islington Local Authorities.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.