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Senior Specialist Nurse/Practitioner for Safeguarding Adults
NHS AfC: Band 7
We want to give you the best possible experience in the next stage of your career.
We always strive to be the best place to work and to be cared for.
- We’ve been named the 2021 Acute NHS Trust of the Year, in the annual Health Service (HSJ) Journal Awards for our clear ambition and vision and a significant improvement journey over a number of years’.
- The Trust is 6th highest rated Trust in the South East and was still in the top 25% nationally for recommended places to work.
- We’re rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission and when asked whether the care of patients is the organisation’s top priority our staff rank us the best in the country among comparable acute trusts.
- We pride ourselves on supporting you to thrive in your existing role and to develop your career with us. So with us you’ll get loads of benefits, great training and development opportunities, flexibility and a real community feel.
Benefits to working with us
- Great training and education, including preceptorship and CPD (up to £1,000 individual CPD funding available for nurses, midwives and AHPs)
- Our location: you can access beautiful countryside, historic towns and villages and bustling city life all nearby. With good schools, nature reserves and cultural attractions on our doorstep, and both London and Brighton easily accessible too, there’s something for everyone nearby.
- At least 35 days leave (inclusive of bank holidays)
- NHS pension scheme
- A huge range of Health Service Discounts at hundreds of big brands from holidays to gadgets and restaurants to retail.
- On-site nursery
- On-site Boots and WHSmith shops
- An Amazon locker and an InPost locker on site
- Restaurant facilities
- Full educational library services
- Excellent rail and bus links
- The local bus operator offer all new staff one month’s free travel to East Surrey Hospital when they first join (please visit the Metrobus website for details and terms and conditions)
- Lockable storage for cycles.
About us
- We’re a major local employer, with a diverse workforce of c5,000 providing healthcare services to a growing population of around 535,000.
- We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill.
- We offer a full range of acute and complex services at East Surrey Hospital in Redhill, where we are the nearest trauma unit to Gatwick Airport.
- We provide a range of outpatient, diagnostic and less complex planned services at The Earlswood Centre, Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey, and at Crawley and Horsham Hospitals in West Sussex.
The Trust is committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. As an employer we offer a range of benefits including, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement networks, facilities and services to support staff well being.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
This is a rare opportunity for a senior nurse, allied health professional or social worker with a good level of safeguarding adult knowledge and experience to join the Safeguarding Adult Team at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.
The Senior Specialist Nurse for Safeguarding Adults is a key role within the Adult Safeguarding team providing expert support to adults at risk accessing our services, their families and supporting our workforce to identify any safeguarding concerns and act appropriately working within our underpinning legal frameworks and statutory duties.
The Senior Specialist Nurse for Safeguarding Adults will role model excellent professional conduct and practice within the organisation, demonstrating a high level of SASH Trust Values and representing SASH Safeguarding internally and externally in the local safeguarding systems, providing advice and expertise for fellow professionals and ensuring that safeguarding training is delivered to a high standard.
The post holder will support the Trust Lead/Named Nurse for Safeguarding Adults to provide assurance to the Trust Board and the Executive Team that all systems and statutory requirements are in place for the protection of adults at risk, who are accessing services at SASH.
The post holder will support the Trust Lead/Named Nurse for Adult Safeguarding to work closely with the divisions to develop robust, transparent safeguarding practice to ensure delivery of safer services across the Trust.
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
The role of the Senior Specialist Nurse for Safeguarding Adults carries a responsibility across all sites and directorates of the trust to support all activities necessary to ensure that the organisation meets its statutory duties to safeguard adults at risk in compliance with the relevant legislative framework.
The post holder will work closely with the Head of Safeguarding and the Named Nurse/Midwife for Safeguarding Adults, Children and Maternity, and the Designate Nurses for Safeguarding Adults in both Surrey and West Sussex.
The Safeguarding Adults Team lead and provide oversight of the compliance of the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberties Safeguards, this is currently a shared responsibility across the team with the Named Nurse as Trust Lead for MCA & DoLS who support our clinical teams to understand the processes required to ensure our patients who lack capacity to make certain decisions around their care needs are assessed and treated with the utmost consideration and protection at all times.
Teaching and Training our workforce is an important aspect of this role which includes teaching on the mandatory training day face to face or virtually and smaller targeted bespoke sessions with specific teams.
For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
SASH NHS Trust provides emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people.
We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services at Crawley and Horsham Hospitals in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey providing less complex planned services.
In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:
- Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021.
- National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do.
- We are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.
Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
Please see attached Job Description for details of the role and responsibilities of this position.
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Criteria
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
- A complete and accurate application
- Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
- Evidence of essential experience for role
- Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
- Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration
- Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours
- Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the personal specification
Gofynion ymgeisio
Rhaid i chi gael cofrestriad proffesiynol priodol yn y DU.
Mae'r swydd hon yn ddarostyngedig i Orchymyn Deddf Adsefydlu Troseddwyr 1974 (Eithriadau) 1975 (Diwygio) (Cymru a Lloegr) 2020 a bydd angen cyflwyno Datgeliad i'r Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd.
Dogfennau i'w lawrlwytho
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Sara Allen
- Teitl y swydd
- Named Nurse for Safeguarding Adults
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 01737 768511
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
ext 1816
Rhestr swyddi gyda Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust yn Nyrsio a bydwreigiaeth neu bob sector