Head of Safeguarding Families

You will be responsible for immediate leadership of the safeguarding team and service across Colchester Hospital and community services. This will involve ensuring that the team maintains oversight of safeguarding practice across all patient groups, staff education and awareness of safeguarding concerns within the Trust. You will support and empower the safeguarding team to deliver a service which ensures high quality safeguarding responses. Reporting directly to the Senior Lead for Safeguarding and Complex Health to ensure that practice within Colchester hospital and community services informs the overall understanding of ESNEFT wide needs in relation to safeguarding. You will work alongside their counterpart, the Head of Safeguarding families in Ipswich to ensure consistency across the whole service. You will provide direct supervision to the named professionals within the team and will be responsible for building and maintaining professional relationships with leaders in ESNEFT and within partner organisations. You will support the Safeguarding Team to work in a way which empowers staff across services to undertake their roles and responsibilities in relation to Safeguarding. These include identification of concerns, communication regarding concerns, completion of referrals, undertaking of capacity assessments and application of proportionate restrictions in line with the MCA.,

• Provide leadership for staff working within Colchester Hospital and Community Safeguarding services including line management, appraisals and performance management
• Work closely with the Senior Lead for Safeguarding and Complex Health to identify service improvements and strategic actions to maintain good safeguarding practice and response across the Trust.
• Demonstrate leadership skills which supports open and constructive discussions across divisions in the interest of meeting safeguarding requirements.
• To build and maintain strong professional relationships with external safeguarding leads so as to ensure ESNEFT contributes to and participates in system wide developments and learning.
• Ensure policies and protocols are reflective of legal frameworks and regulation requirements.
• Support divisions to undertake investigations as required in line with safeguarding protocols.
• Monitor and report on safeguarding performance quarterly and through the Trust annual safeguarding report.
  
  We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff. We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients. We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients. If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you. Find out about living and working here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A