Band 8b Safeguarding Adults Named Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and forward thinking experienced Registered Nurse/Registered Mental Health Nurse who is passionate about safeguarding, and is currently working in a similar role in an acute hospital environment. As part of the corporate safeguarding service, the Named Nurse will be a key leader and will be responsible for the delivery and monitoring of safeguarding procedures. This will include the provision of specialised advice and expert knowledge/training to staff, peers, other professionals and multi-agency partners on all aspects of safeguarding adults. The postholder will act as a conduit of communication with professionals internal to the organisation and ensure continued external partnership working is achieved. If you believe that making continuous improvements to the way every element of patient care is delivered, whilst simultaneously driving up process and cost efficiency, then this post could be of interest to you. All new staff appointed
to posts at the Trust are subject to a probationary period. This will give the new staff member an opportunity to become familiar with the culture and working environment of the Trust., The purpose of the job is to promote the early accurate identification and management of safeguarding concerns by leadership, expert practice, research and education.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.