Associate Professional Safeguarding

Job summary

The Associate Professional for Safeguarding will work closely with the Head of Safeguarding and Integrated Safeguarding Team members to:

Ensure that The Trust meets its legal & statutory obligations to safeguard and promote the welfare of all adults, children and young people and who access services from any hospital site within the Trust.

Actively participate in all Safeguarding Training delivery for both Safeguarding Adults and Safeguarding Children training and PREVENT / WRAP, across all levels to all Trust staff, including provision of bespoke training and supporting the Integrated Safeguarding Team with safeguarding training development and review

Support the Integrated Safeguarding Team in the development and delivery of quality assurance processes, audits and report writing in accordance with the Safeguarding Children and Adult agenda.

Support the Integrated Safeguarding Team in all aspect of the multi-agency Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Adult Agenda, as deemed appropriate. This may include deputising within forums and meetings as deemed appropriate.

Main duties of the job

The Associate Professional for Safeguarding supports and ensures effective Safeguarding practice for the organisation as stipulated in primary legislation and underpinned in Government strategy and national, regional and local guidance, procedures and standards. Professionals in this role will:

• Support the Named Nurses and Named Midwife to develop, implement and review safeguarding practice across the organisation and its networks.
• Support the Named Nurses and Named Midwife in the provision of specialist professional safeguarding advice.
• Deliver safeguarding training and support the Integrated Safeguarding Team to develop, implement and evaluate safeguarding training for all staff groups from induction to specialist courses.
• Facilitate safe and effective multi-professional communication and information sharing appropriately across a range of settings and agencies in accordance with agreed policies and procedures in relation to safeguarding
• Communicate highly complex, sensitive and emotive information within the health service and multi-agency contexts, pertaining to safeguarding adults, children and young people.
• Foster effective working relationships in order to promote inter-disciplinary and multi-agency collaboration and be an active member of multi-agency safeguarding groups.

Job responsibilities

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

• Best services for local people
• Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
• Best use of resources
• Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.