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Duties and responsibilities

Patient care

• Demonstrate and promote a Think Family style of safeguarding practice.
• Model and promote compassionate persistence and professional curiosity in all interactions with staff, patients and professionals from other agencies.
• Monitor and develop standards of MCA assessment through the support of practice, clinical audit and adoption of evidence-based practice.
• Participate in Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings where mental capacity concerns have been raised to aid effective patient care planning, which will include taking an active role in team meetings, case conferences and specialist interest group meetings.
• Either working alone or as part of the multi-disciplinary team, make recommendations for appropriate and timely discharge/transfer from hospital
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers highly complex, sensitive or distressing information, with an emphasis on giving each individual patient as much choice and control over decisions about their life as possible
• Maintain clear, accurate and concise records in line with departmental and professional standards and include relevant outcome measures.
• Provide specialised advice to ensure high quality standards of patient care and patient safety
• Maintain patient and staff confidentiality at all times

Professional practice

• Develop and maintain close interagency working with all partner agencies, both statutory and voluntary.
• Use all relevant Trust IT systems competently; including the electronic patient record, email, and specialist secure safeguarding databases.
• Maintain regular use of emails to keep abreast of information disseminated in the Trust
• Adhere to the NMC/HCPC code of practice at all times and operate within the NMC/HCPC scope of professional practice.
• Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of accountability, responsibility and Duty of Care and work towards the provision of support and education for less experienced and nonregistered staff on the implications for practice.

     Leadership and management

• Monitor Trust wide activity relating to safeguarding adults including MCA assessment and DoLs applications, reporting trends and actions taken in response
• Deputise for the Safeguarding Adult Nurse
• Comply with Trust and Departmental policies and procedures e.g. Health and Safety at Work Act (1974), Manual Handling, clinical equipment competency, risk management, Data Protection Acts and patient confidentiality at all times.

This will include demonstrating compliance with the terms of all safeguarding policies and processes relevant to the safeguarding of adults and children in the care of Princess Alexandra Hospital and to undergo regular mandatory training concerned with safeguarding matters. 

• Report near misses and untoward incidents, complaints injuries as detailed in the departmental and Trust protocols. Assist lead staff in investigating incidents as required.
• Quality Account Maintain and contribute to the development of standards of MCA practice, conduct or decision making in conjunction with lead staff.
• Delivery of service in line with the allocated financial budget
• Ensure a smart, professional image that enhances the public perception of the Trust and the professionalism of its staff is portrayed. 

     Education and training

• Support the delivery of safeguarding training across the organisation ensure Trust is compliant with statutory guidance.
• Participate in the supervision, case monitoring and clinical education of staff across the Trust.
• Supervise, mentor, support and educate less experienced safeguarding staff in the practice setting.
• Undertake all mandatory training
• Demonstrate a commitment to research based practice and clinical excellence and play and active part in the introduction of research-based change to improve patient centred care.
• In conjunction with the Head of Safeguarding, identify training needs and maintain personal development

Improving quality and developing practice

• Comply with requirements to register with the NMC/HCPC and identify own learning needs and ensuring own professional development is maintained by keeping up to date with practice developments.
• Support the audit and research projects related to safeguarding practice, to further own and team’s clinical practice. Make recommendations for changes to practice and procedures for the relevant clinical area and oversee the implementation of these changes.
• Contribute to the Clinical Governance and Quality agenda by active participation in service initiatives, health and safety and risk management.
• Develop and share own clinical knowledge with other members of the wider clinical team both locally and regionally.
• Identify own development needs, aligning these to service requirements and personal aspirations. Proactively develop and improve own practice using all available resources
• Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate policies/ protocols/ guidelines relevant to Safeguarding practice.
• Openly question and challenge practice in a constructive way so that standards of patient care are continually evaluated and improved.