Designated Adult Safeguarding Lead (Croydon)

The post holder will act as a point of expertise for all issues relating to the care of vulnerable adults across SWL ICS. This post leads and co-ordinates the SWL ICS adult safeguarding strategy, across the local health economy, providing a strategic overview that encompasses domestic and sexual violence, and PREVENT. You will be expected to focus on place based safeguarding whilst working collaboratively with partners within the SWL system. The post holder will take a lead (the Local Area Contact role) for the LeDeR programme across the borough they are responsible for. The post holder supports all activity required to ensure that the ICS meets its responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults working effectively with internal and external partners for the betterment of peoples' lives. The role is the designated professional where allegations are made or concerns raised about staff as well as managing and providing oversight of individual complex cases. The designated professional for safeguarding adults provides an advisory role to the borough safeguarding adults board, supporting the ICB representative to the board. The post holder takes a lead for health in working with partners and for taking forward learning for the health economy. The designated professional for safeguarding adults supports the SWL named GP for safeguarding adults (where there is a named GP).Main duties of the job You will be expected to focus on place based safeguarding whilst working collaboratively with partners within the SWL system. The post holder will take a lead (the Local Area Contact role) for the LeDeR programme across the borough they are responsible for. The post holder supports all activity required to ensure that the ICS meets its responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults working effectively with internal and external partners for the betterment of peoples' lives. The role is the designated professional where allegations are made or concerns raised about staff as well as managing and providing oversight of individual complex cases. The designated professional for safeguarding adults provides an advisory role to the borough safeguarding adults board, supporting the ICB representative to the board. The post holder takes a lead for health in working with partners and for taking forward learning for the health economy.,

• an Integrated Care Board, bringing the NHS together with its partners locally to improve health and care services
• an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP): the broad alliance of organisations and representatives concerned with improving the care, health and wellbeing of the population, jointly convened by the ICB and local authorities in the area.
ICBs are statutory NHS bodies responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of integrated care systems (ICSs):
• to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare;
• tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access;
• enhance productivity and value for money and;
• help the NHS support broader social and economic development.
NHS South West London Integrated Care Board decides how the South West London NHS budget is spent and develops plans to improve people's health, deliver higher quality care, and better value for money.

NHS South West London Integrated Care Board (ICB), as part of South West London Integrated Care System (ICS), is a partnership of organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care services to improve the lives of people in our six boroughs: Croydon, Merton, Kingston, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth.