Designated Nurse/Professional Safeguarding Adults

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board; Birkenhead; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

The postholder will provide strategic and professional leadership for safeguarding adults across the Integrated Care Board (ICB), ensuring safeguarding is embedded within strategic planning, clinical leadership, innovation, commissioning, procurement, and service delivery to improve population health and wellbeing across Cheshire and Merseyside.

They will create a culture of high-quality practice and accountability, lead on statutory safeguarding duties, and work with Heads of Safeguarding and

Qualifications

• Extensive safeguarding adults experience within a health system.
• Experience and ability to influence across system partners and sectors.
• Knowledge of safeguarding legislation, policy and national standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for safeguarding adults across the ICB.
• Embed safeguarding in planning, commissioning and service delivery.
• Lead quality assurance and governance for safeguarding activities across the health economy.
• Collaborate with Safeguarding Team and local partnerships to improve outcomes.

Skills

Safeguarding leadership

Strategic partnership

Governance

Education

NHS safeguarding qualification

Tools

Governance frameworks

Job description

The postholder will provide strategic and professional leadership for safeguarding adults across the Integrated Care Board (ICB), ensuring safeguarding is embedded within strategic planning, clinical leadership, innovation, commissioning, procurement, and service delivery to improve population health and wellbeing across Cheshire and Merseyside. They will proactively contribute to Safeguarding Adult Boards and partnerships, working collaboratively with system partners to strengthen safeguarding practice, governance, and outcomes., The Designated Professional will provide expert advice and safeguarding and professional leadership to local health providers and partner agencies in relation to safeguarding adults at risk. They will support the effective delivery of the ICB's statutory safeguarding duties, working closely with the ICB Safeguarding Team to ensure compliance with relevant legislation, policy, and national standards.

The postholder will work in close partnership with Heads of Safeguarding to lead and manage the ICB Safeguarding Team, including Deputy Designated Nurses and Professionals and business support roles, promoting a culture of high quality practice, accountability, and continuous improvement.

The role will support improvements in the quality and provision of health services through collaboration across the Integrated Care System, including local authorities and health partners, ensuring that safeguarding and clinical governance policies, procedures, and best practice are understood and consistently applied. Working jointly with the Head of Safeguarding, the postholder will lead on quality assurance of safeguarding practice across the health economy, including oversight of safeguarding performance, and ensure there is robust evidence of learning and improvement arising from statutory safeguarding reviews.

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside serves a population of over 2.7 million people across nine localities, working with 16 NHS provider organisations, 51 Primary Care Networks, local authorities and voluntary sector partners.

We are proud of Cheshire and Merseyside's record of collaborative working and there are countless examples of brilliant care, but there are also examples of variation in service which only serve to exacerbate health inequalities.

Our vision is for everyone in Cheshire and Merseyside to have a great start in life and get the support they need to stay healthy and live longer.

We will do this by working together, as equal partners, to support seamless, person-centred care and tackle health inequalities by improving the lives of the poorest fastest.

Our values are rooted in the NHS Constitution, and we strive to create a compassionate, collaborative and innovative culture where staff can thrive and make a real difference to local communities.