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Job overview

• The Liaison Nurse post within Safeguarding is a vital role within our team based at Epsom & St Helier Hospitals.
• Working closely with the Safeguarding team, clinician's across the organisation and with our wider partnerships, this role ensures timely discussion/liaison to safeguard adults at risk and children. 
• The role is patient facing and site based, working cross site as required.  You will be working collaboratively with a wide range of people and will need to be able to communicate effectively.
• You will need to be aware of themes emerging locally and nationally relating to safeguarding, and bring a keen interest in sharing information via our training/teaching programmes. 

Main duties of the job

• To identify adults at risk and children/Young People (including children of adults at risk) and support staff to be confident and competent with making appropriate referral/ information sharing to community services.
• To form close working partnership with the safeguarding team, local statutory   Services and community practitioners.
• To ensure information is shared with the appropriate services including Maternity, Health Visitors, School Nurses, CAMHS,IDVA’s, MARAC,  Social Workers, Children Looked After Team and out of area children.
• Gain broad understanding and competence in safeguarding across the lifespan, providing key signposts to colleagues as needed.
• Participate in Education and Training for clinical areas as delegated.
• Once supervision trained, to be supported to deliver safeguarding supervision as delegated. 

Working for our organisation

After many years of collaboration and creating closer working ties, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust and St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust formed a hospital group and appointed a Group Chief Executive in August 2021 (following the appointment of a Chairman in Common in 2019) and a single executive team in January 2022.

Working as a hospital group under one executive leadership team allows for more joined up decision making for local people, a larger and more resilient clinical workforce, reduced variation in care and access to a wider range of services for our patients.

The Group Chief Nurse (GCNO) and Group Chief Medical Officer (CMO) are the Executive Directors jointly accountable to the Trust Boards for the delivery of the quality and safety agenda, including patient experience.