Lead Nurse for Safeguarding Adults

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic candidate to join the Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust Corporate Safeguarding Team as the Lead Nurse for Safeguarding Adults.

The successful post holder will assist the Head and Deputy Head of Safeguarding in leading on the application and delivery of the national and local safeguarding adult's agenda across WHT. This will include working closely across the wider safeguarding partnership to ensure that the Trust meets its responsibilities under relevant legislation for Safeguarding Adults including, Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Deprivation of Liberties Safeguards (DoLS), Prevent, to provide quality, safe care in respect of adults.

The Lead Nurse for Safeguarding Adults willprovide day to day operational management and leadership to support the Safeguarding Adult Team.

The Lead Nurse for Safeguarding Adults will work collaboratively with key providers locally to ensure that there is system wide safeguarding processes in place.PLEASE NOTE, WE MAY CLOSE THIS VACANCY EARLY IF WE RECEIVE HIGH NUMBERS OF APPLICATIONS.

Main duties of the job

To provide day to day operational and management leadership and support to the WHT Safeguarding Adults Team. This includes recruitment, appraisals and performance management oversight.

Provide clinical leadership, professional support and specialised advice to all staff and partner agencies in relation to safeguarding agenda. Utilise national and local guidelines to further develop safeguarding processes within the Trust

Proactively embed the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and DoLS agenda across the organisation, working closely with local supervisory bodies. Provide advice and guidance to staff on safeguarding adults, Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and Deprivation of Liberties Safeguards (DoLS).

Act as a resource, provide a high level of input to the service and provide professional leadership for both corporate and operational staff, trainees and volunteers in Safeguarding Adults at Risk.

Actively support safeguarding investigations and demonstrate excellent interagency working. As the lead nurse you will represent the Trust at interagency meetings, developing working partnerships at senior level with partner organisations.

Work closely with the Trust's Patient Safety and Governance Team, ensuring that safeguarding investigations are robustly conducted, and those outcomes are fed into the Trust's clinical governance process.

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust provides integrated acute and community Healthcare in the West Midlands serving a population of 260,000 residents. Walsall Manor Hospital houses the full range of district general hospital services. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and we are continually upgrading. Construction of the new integrated critical care unit was completed in 2018, extension of a Neonatal Unit and an approved plan to build a brand new, state of the art Emergency Department which will commence in 2021 We provide high quality, friendly and effective community health services from multiple sites covering Walsall.

Our multidisciplinary services include rapid response and homebased care, so that those with long term conditions and the frail elderly can remain in their own homes. Following our recent CQC visit the Trust was rated as outstanding for care and this has been recognised by NHS Improvement. We are committed to delivering high quality care in our wards and services and as part of our improvement plan to become an outstanding Trust by 2022 We would particularly welcome applications from people from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background and from people with a disability; these groups are currently under-represented at senior level, we value diversity within our Trust and are working to achieve equality in our recruitment.