Safeguarding Lead - Surbiton and Chessington PCN

Integrated Care System; London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in London is seeking a Safeguarding Lead to oversee quality safeguarding practices within the PCN. The ideal candidate will have safeguarding expertise and a relevant professional qualification, ensuring effective communication among healthcare providers. The role offers flexibility in hours and competitive salary with excellent benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Training and development opportunities

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Significant professional experience working with safeguarding issues.
• Experience in report writing, audit, supervision, and teaching.
• Good general standard of education.

Responsibilities

• Oversee quality of safeguarding practice within the PCN.
• Record, action and follow up on safeguarding caseloads.
• Ensure timely completion of safeguarding reports.

Skills

Safeguarding expertise

Communication skills

Autonomous working

Teamwork

Education

Professional nursing, HCPC or social work qualification

Tools

EMIS

Microsoft Office

Job description

Safeguarding Lead - Surbiton and Chessington PCN

Kingston GP Chambers are delighted to be supporting the Surbiton and Chessington Primary Care Network (PCN) with their recruitment for a Safeguarding Lead.

TheSurbiton & Chessington PCNs Ltd includes Surbiton Health Centre PCN andChessington & Surbiton PCN, which work together through a limited companywith a joint Board: Surbiton & Chessington PCNs Limited.

The PCNs have 3- and 5-member GP practicesrespectively, and together account for a total registered population of closeto 66,000. The networks have diversecommunities including commuter areas, young families, deprived pockets, andfrail elderly / care homes. The PCNs vision is to help to maintain and improvethe health and healthcare for our local populations, and the sustainability ofour member GP practices, in line with wider NHS strategies and plans.

The post-holder will have a key role in overseeing the quality of safeguarding practice within the PCN, providing support to clinical practitioners and ensuring timely and smooth information exchange between relevant safeguarding partners within the legal framework and supporting the strategic direction across the organisation.

The PCN are very flexible with with this opportunity being a full-time position or part-time depending on the successful candidate's availability

A competitive salary is on offer along with excellentbenefits and training and development.

Main duties of the job

Purpose of the role:

We are seekinga highly motivated, dynamic and forwardthinking practitioner to work within our PCN. We are looking for someone who can workautonomously, is reliable and flexible and can demonstrate expertise in safeguarding.

We expect an excellent knowledge of the legislation that supports work to safeguard children and adults. Experience of report writing, audit, supervision/ teaching will be important to help you in this role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Record, action and follow up caseload where safeguarding issues are present and ensure relevant GP practices are informed
• Timely completion of safeguarding reports-e.g. information requests from local authority or relevant agencies such as MARAC
• Attendance at meetings relevant to your caseload such as child case conferences and strategy meetings
• Work with clinicians and service users/ patients to ensure actions are being followed up, evaluated and co-ordinated around the needs of the user
• Liaison role- ensure good communication with professionals in relevant organisations such as local hospital, health visitor, children's services and multidisciplinary health care team.
• Act as the first port of call for service users/ patients / families as appropriate
• Make referrals to other professionals/agencies where these will be beneficial.

About us

Kingston GP Chambers is a Federation of all NHS General Practices within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. It was founded in 2008 as a limited company whose shareholders are all 20 GP Practices within Kingston. The company is led by a Board of Directors who are also GP Partners in their own Practices within Kingston.

Kingston GP Chambers has worked collaboratively with both secondary care and the private sector. At present we provide community clinics for Dermatology, Urology, Neurology, Dementia and Diabetes.

In addition, Kingston GP Chambers are at the forefront of improving patient access to primary care. We deliver a comprehensive extended hours service offering GP appointments across three hubs in the evenings Monday to Friday, over the weekend and on Bank Holidays.

Kingston GP Chambers has the ability to respond rapidly, and we have continued to demonstrate the capability to provide high-quality, innovative and timely solutions to improving patient care and experience.

We work closely alongside the other GP Federations in Southwest London to continue the government's five-year forward plan and deliver patient services in the community.

We aim to continue to grow as we are increasingly recognised as the provider of choice for extended, enhanced and urgent GP services.

We also expect an increasing role as we support, reinforce and develop the position of general practice as the core building block for an increasing range of jointly-provided services.

Job responsibilities

Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated, dynamic and forward thinking practitioner to work within our PCN. We are looking for someone who can work autonomously, is reliable and flexible and can demonstrate expertise in safeguarding.

You will have a key role in overseeing the quality of safeguarding practice within the PCN, providing support to clinical practitioners and ensuring timely and smooth information exchange between relevant safeguarding partners within the legal framework and supporting the strategic direction across the organisation.

You will have a relevant health/social work qualification and significant professional experience working with children and adults with evidence of exposure to safeguarding casework and an emphasis on the principles outlined in Making Safeguarding Personal.

We expect an excellent knowledge of the legislation that supports work to safeguard children and adults. Experience of report writing, audit, supervision/ teaching will be important to help you in this role.

You will need to be able to demonstrate good communication skills and effective team working within the PCN and with other agencies including the local authorities and healthcare providers. This post will provide expert clinical leadership and direction for safeguarding children and adults and ensure that the PCN and practices fulfil statutory obligations in the services they deliver.

Job summary

• Work with GPs within the PCN to identify, manage and prioritise a caseload of patients in accordance with need and where appropriate refer to other professionals/ organisations
• Take a leading role in overseeing and managing the recording and coding of safeguarding information so that there is uniformity across the PCN.
• Work within the practices by co-operating with other service providers to share information in adherence with confidentiality, data protection legislation and data sharing agreements.
• Ensure regular and consistent communication with each GP practice, providing updates on patient caseload and actively managing quarterly meetings
• Have mechanisms in place to engage with patients who are using the service
• Be able to work reflectively and collaboratively to improve, develop and evolve the service and patient experience
• Ensure that at all times service users experience support that is friendly, accessible, warm whilst professional and responsive to individual need

Main responsibilities

• Record, action and follow up caseload where safeguarding issues are present and ensure relevant GP practices are informed
• Timely completion of safeguarding reports-e.g. information requests from local authority or relevant agencies such as MARAC
• Attendance at meetings relevant to your caseload such as child case conferences and strategy meetings
• Work with clinicians and service users/ patients to ensure actions are being followed up, evaluated and co-ordinated around the needs of the user
• Meet and ensure good communication with professionals in relevant organisations such as local hospital, health visitor, PAC, childrens services and multidisciplinary health care team.
• Act as the first port of call for service users/ patients / families as appropriate
• Make referrals to other professionals/agencies where these will be beneficial.
• Completion of monitoring, evaluation and assessment processes for all appropriate and relevant services.
• Devise and participate in audit, working with practice safeguarding leads on Section 11 audit.
• Maintain and support practice staff with their safeguarding duties. This includes restorative safeguarding supervision.
• Devise and deliver safeguarding training to GP practice staff. This includes identifying educative lessons from safeguarding that are relevant to primary care staff.
• Development and updating of Practice & PCN safeguarding policies.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Good general standard of education
• Professional nursing , HCPC or social work qualification
• Training around care planning and coordination
• Training around residential care

Experience

• Working with people where safeguarding issues are present
• Experience of working in a dynamic and creative way, problem solving and prioritising work
• Maintaining accurate up- to-date records of activities and interventions
• Experience of working in a health, social or education setting
• Experience of facilitating or leading changing organisations, systems or ways of working
• Monitoring and evaluating services and approaches
• Awareness of current safeguarding guidelines and escalation pathways
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of advocating for vulnerable adults and
• /or people where safeguarding issues are present
• Experience of clinical supervision

Knowledge and skills

• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to build trust and offer her a holistic solutions focused approach to individual issues
• Able to network and build effective working relationships
• Strong influencing skills and the confidence to constructively challenge in order to effect change
• Able to work on own initiative and manage and time
• Excellent organisational skills and an ability to prioritise workload
• Maintaining boundaries and ensuring clarity and understanding of the role
• Ability to safe manage and be creative in your
• Use of IT systems Including EMIS, Microsoft Office, e-mail and database systems
• Training experience

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.

Depending on experienceSalary negotiable dependent upon experience