Safeguarding Adults Lead Nurse (or Professional)

Work with the Head of Safeguarding Adults and wider safeguarding team to identify areas for service improvement using a sound knowledge of service improvement methodology.

Ensure that the safeguarding perspective is considered within all service improvement programmes particularly in relation to quality and safety, patient and parent experience and engagement.

Communicate with a wide range of stakeholders at Trust, local and national levels including patients and carers, clinicians, senior management representing the safeguarding adults agenda for the organisation.

Support the implementation of systems, control processes and risk management arrangements to support monitoring of compliance with safeguarding standards, clinical governance standards, other Trust-wide policies and best practice requirements.

Support the implementation of systems, control processes and risk management arrangements to support monitoring of compliance with safeguarding standards, clinical governance standards, other Trust-wide policies and best practice requirements.

Lead a culture of professional accountability and responsibility to patients, ensuring that staff learn from complaints, near misses, critical incidents and all forms of patient feedback. Support processes of risk incident investigation, root cause, trend and feedback analysis.

Ensure that dynamic continuing professional development, training and education opportunities are in place to develop a skilled and competent workforce within the available resources. To identify the training needs of staff working with adults within the Trust and prepare, together with the safeguarding trainer a training programme to address these.