Deputy Named Nurse Safeguarding Adults

at  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for experienced, enthusiastic and committed health professional to join the Safeguarding Children Team at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust as Deputy Named Nurse Safeguarding Adults.
The post holder will have operational leadership responsibility for safeguarding Adults ensuring that structures, systems and processes are in place across the Trust and will report into the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Adults and Head of Safeguarding and vulnerable patients.
Be highly visible and accessible to Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (Trust) staff, including the executive lead and senior leadership teams. This includes, providing sound expert safeguarding advice, support and clinical expertise to Trust staff in all areas of safeguarding adults, Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards/Liberty Protection Safeguards.
To act as a role model demonstrating effective leadership and political awareness daily and promote Trust values.
To liaise internally with wards/departments, as well as externally with Local Safeguarding Partnership Boards, Integrated Care Boards and other agencies, in order to lead on the development of safeguarding adult practice
To foster a culture of prevention, early and accurate identification and management of safeguarding concerns for the organisation to ensure it appropriately discharges and fulfils its safeguarding responsibilities.
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment .
Our three core values , and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
The post holder will provide expert advice and support on a daily basis to staff working across the Trust on all aspects of safeguarding. This will include highly complex, difficult and emotive situations.
In collaboration with Lead Named Nurses, develop and ensure effective safeguarding and processes are in place within the Trust for information sharing, training, safeguarding supervision and support.
Provide professional leadership, consultancy, advice, risk assessment and safeguarding practice to both the Safeguarding Adult Team and Trust staff
To be responsible for the development, implementation and review of Trust safeguarding policies and procedures to ensure compliance with national bodies and best practice.
Contribute to relevant Local Safeguarding Partnership Board meetings and represent the Trust at relevant safeguarding multi-agency forums/sub-groups.
Lead on matters relating to safeguarding adults to ensure the Trust fulfils its responsibilities for safeguarding adults, for example, new Government guidance or legislative change relating to safeguarding adults
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