Named Nurse/Professional - Safeguarding Adults

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust; West Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting an experienced Named Nurse/Professional in Safeguarding Adults. The role spans two sites (SWUHN Foundation Trust and George Eliot Hospital) with time divided across both locations.

You will provide expert safeguarding leadership, training, and supervision, ensuring adherence to MCA, DOLS, and the Think Family agenda. Candidate will drive safeguarding across the Trust, work with multi-agency partners, and contribute to governance

Qualifications

• Experience of working with adults with care and support needs.
• Experience of complex safeguarding work.
• Experience of working within a safeguarding team.
• Experience of managing own workload.
• Experience of working autonomously.
• Excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills.
• IT literate with ability to navigate multiple systems.

Responsibilities

• Ensure Local Safeguarding Adult Board and West Midlands Policy and procedures are known, understood and followed by Trust staff.
• Provide leadership, expert advice and support on safeguarding adult matters to all health professionals; offer guidance, advice, support and supervision of safeguarding adults.
• Support and empower staff to contribute autonomously to safeguarding adult meetings.
• Plan, deliver and evaluate safeguarding adults and children training across the Trust in collaboration with LSAB/LSCB and Learning & Development Unit.
• Disseminate and lead on MCA 2005 across the Trust to ensure understanding of capacity and impact on safeguarding functions.
• Monitor Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS) and reporting compliance to CCGs.
• Lead on Mental Health Act 2005 ensuring policies and procedures comply.
• Contribute to safeguarding responsibilities through multi-agency learning and independent reports.
• Prepare reports for Corporate Governance and Safeguarding Operational Group.
• Promote Think Family model within safeguarding teams.
• Implement local recommendations from Safeguarding Adult/Children Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews.
• Build relationships with designated health professionals and partner agencies including MASH.

Education

RN/ RMHN/ Specialist Community Public health Nurse/ Social Worker or equivalent experience

Teaching qualification or equivalent experience

Job description

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust

Named Nurse/Professional - Safeguarding Adults

The closing date is 11 November 2026

The South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust are looking to recruit an experienced Safeguarding Nurse/Professional to join the Safeguarding Team. They will need to be enthusiastic , energetic and passionate about safeguarding in line with the Trust's Think Family approach and have experience of working with adults and children

The post holder will expected to have an in depth knowledge of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and Domestic Abuse Act 2021

This role is based across two locations, South Warwickshire University Foundation NHS Trust and the George Eliot Hospital. The post holder will be expected to divide their time across both.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work collaboratively with the Safeguarding Team, and other agencies to ensure that the organisation meets its safeguarding adult's responsibilities and those adults with care and support needs are effectively safeguarded.

The post holder will provide expert advice, support, training and safeguarding adult supervision to health staff across the organisation.

The post holder will contribute to effective multi-agency partnership working arrangements for safeguarding adults with care and support needs.

About us

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC.

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is one of the top performing organisations within the NHS. Our staff think this is a great place to work and we hope you will agree.We have recently been rated as 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following our most recent inspection

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:

https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2

We appreciate you completing the survey.

Job responsibilities

Main Functions:

To ensure that Local Safeguarding Adult Board and West Midlands Policy and procedures, internal health procedures are known, understood and followed by Trust staff.

To provide leadership, expert advice and support on safeguarding adult matters to all health professionals. This includes:

To offer guidance, advice support and supervision of safeguarding adults to all staff involved in adult safeguarding work.

To support and empower staff to contribute autonomously to safeguarding adult meetings

The planning, delivery and evaluation of safeguarding adults and children training for staff across the Trust in conjunction with Local Safeguarding Adult and Children Boards and the Trust Learning and Development Unit.

Disseminate and lead on Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) across the Trust to ensure that there is a clear understanding of capacity and how this can impact on safeguarding functions.

Ensure appropriate processes in place to monitor Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS) and monitor and support notification compliance to Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG).

Lead on and act as an expert for the Trust on the Mental Health Act (2005) ensuring policies and procedures are in place to ensure compliance with the act.

To support the Trust in its responsibilities towards safeguarding adults in line with legislation and current government policy. This includes participation in multi-agency learning and improvement frameworks through the writing of scoping and independent management reports for Safeguarding Adult Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews..

The provision of reports to the Trust Corporate Governance team and Trust Safeguarding Operational Group as required.

To work effectively within an adult and childrens safeguarding team to promote the Think Family model across the Trust

To implement local recommendations on practice arising from Safeguarding Adult Reviews, Safeguarding Childrens Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews.

To build effective key relationships with the Designated and Named Health professionals across the health economy and to work in partnership with other agencies involved with protecting adults and children.

To work collaboratively with partner agencies, including the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH), in safeguarding adults and children and their carers who may be subject to domestic abuse.

To adhere at all times to the principles of Information Sharing to safeguard children and adults.

To lead and participate in clinical audit as required both nationally and via trust audit programmes and through the Local Safeguarding Adult Board.

Line Management Responsibilities:

To provide leadership to colleagues wit in the Safeguarding Team administrative and secretarial staff, and guide on specific areas of work, as required.

Person Specification

Qualification

• RN/ RMHN/ /Specialist Community Public health Nurse/ Social Worker or equivalent experience
• Teaching qualification or equivalent experience.

Experience

• Experience of working with adults with care and support needs
• Experience of complex safeguarding work
• Experience of working within a safeguarding team
• Experience of managing own workload
• Experience of working autonomously

Skills

• Must have excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent oral, written communication report writing and presentation skills.
• Must be able to demonstrate ability to work confidently in a multi-agency environment.
• Must demonstrate effective concise and clear decision making skills that empower and support staff.
• Must be able to work autonomously
• Must demonstrate effective training skills, be able to prepare deliver and evaluate training relating to safeguarding adults and families.
• Must be able to demonstrate knowledge of Clinical Governance Framework.
• Evidence of continued professional development in safeguarding adults and associated risk assessments.
• Understanding of current legislation and guidance relating to safeguarding adults and the Think family agenda.
• Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of the need for confidentiality in all aspects of the work of the department.
• Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of equal opportunities.
• Must be able to demonstrate experience in providing safeguarding supervision.
• Must be IT literate with an ability to navigate numerous systems or be prepared to undertake training

Personal Qualities

• Must have the ability to work as part of a team.
• Must be able to influence and motivate others.
• Must be able to demonstrate negotiation skills
• Must have excellent interpersonal skills
• Must be flexible to meet the needs of the service

Other Job requirements

• Must be a non-smoker whilst on duty
• Must have access to independent transport
• Must be willing to undertake Disclosure Barring Service to enhanced level
• Must be legally entailed to work in the UK

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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