Associate Director of Safeguarding, Band 8c

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Trust as Associate Director of Safeguarding. Reporting to our Deputy Chief Nurse, our future Associate Director of Safeguarding will bring expert knowledge in the field of safeguarding, public protection and vulnerable persons. They will lead our safeguarding teams, adults, children, vulnerable women and the learning disabilities and dementia services. Bringing these functions together for the first time., As an experienced registered professional working at a Trust-wide level, the post holder will have a lead role in ensuring that the Trust has robust mechanisms in place for safeguarding, and public protection, including those required for the Trust to fulfil its statutory duties.

The post holder will be required to draw on / ensure access to high levels of specialist knowledge about safeguarding, public protection, and vulnerable persons national policies and processes to support the Executive Office of Nursing, AHPs and Midwifery in delivering on the agendas and in meeting statutory compliance across the Trust.

The Associate Director will lead the Trust's safeguarding teams, adults, children and vulnerable women and the learning disabilities and dementia services. Bringing these functions together for the first time.

As a member of the senior nursing, AHP and midwifery team you will be professionally accountable to the Deputy Chief Nurse and be a highly visible member of the Executive Office of Nursing, AHPs and Midwifery.

We are looking to speak with experienced registered professionals who have significant experience operating at a senior level. We are interested in speaking with compassionate, kind and inclusive safeguarding professionals who want to progress their careers and help us achieve our ambition to provide excellence to our patients, their families and all we serve.

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest employer in the county and with over 9,000 staff, we are one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. We take great pride in delivering high quality acute services and we understand just how precious life is. We provide acute hospital services from two large district general hospitals, Cheltenham General Hospital and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. Maternity Services are also provided at Stroud Maternity Hospital. We remain the major provider of secondary care services in the area and analysis shows that for Gloucestershire we are the leading acute healthcare provider by a significant margin.

Here at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, our patients are at the heart of everything we do, and pivotal to this are our health care staff, whose dedication, expertise and kindness ensures that patients receive the very best care throughout their treatment.

We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from candidates from the global majority, women, LGBTQ+ communities, and from people with lived experience of disability.