Job summary
- Main area
- Safeguarding
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term 12 months - end date 31st March 2026)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
- Job ref
- 292-6967433-CORP
- Employer
- The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Princess Alexandra Hospital
- Town
- Harlow
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, plus of 5% high cost area supplement
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Safeguarding Adult Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
Our values
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) promise to our patients, as identified by our three values which will contribute to improving our patients’ experiences, is:
Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts.
Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both.
Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care.
Job overview
The Safeguarding Specialist role is an exciting opportunity to develop your professional practice, and leadership skills
This role will support the adults safeguarding agenda but the ethos of our Safeguarding Team is that all specialists cross-cover in the absence of colleagues, so you should expect to develop a working knowledge of other safeguarding sub-specialities.
Main duties of the job
- To be a clinician for safeguarding in the Trust working in collaboration with the safeguarding team
- Provide visible, accessible clinical safeguarding support in all areas of the Trust where adults are patients.
- Support the team in the Provision data to clinical divisions on a monthly basis to guide their clinical practice and inform management decisions.
- Provide Trust wide advice and consultation on all aspects of safeguarding including Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- Coordinate with other safeguarding specialists
- Produce chronologies for all Serious Adult Reviews, Multi-Agency Reviews and serious incidents and co-produce chronologies for Domestic Homicide Reviews with Safeguarding Specialist in Domestic Abuse.
- Conduct oneself in a professional manner and be a role model to less experienced/ non registered and new staff at all times
Working for our organisation
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
Our Values
The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts
Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both
Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care
The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a detailed job description and main responsibilities please see the attached Job description and person specification. These will be available to download at anytime.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Active registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- United Kingdom recognised Degree in a healthcare profession
- Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of professional portfolio and registration revalidation
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience (through placement or employment) of working in an acute clinical environment
Desirable criteria
- Previous training in MCA and DoLS (over and above mandatory training)
- Previous experience of safeguarding
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to prioritise own workload and that of others as appropriate
- Personally resilient and able to manage complexity and work in an ambiguous or changing environment.
- Excellent presentational, communication and interpersonal skills
- Able to maintain and develop standards of practice, conduct or decision making in conjunction with team and Head of Safeguarding
- Able to use clinical reasoning skills and techniques to assess patients considered to lack capacity, investigate fully and establish whether DoLs justified
- Acts as a role model and are able to lead by example to ensure the Trust’s values and behaviours are reinforced throughout their area of practice.
- Able to supervise non-registered and less experienced staff to ensure effective Safeguarding practice
- Able to effectively and appropriately respond to escalation of concerns to reduce risk and promote patient safety
- Tenacity to pursue goals energetically and succeed despite resistance
- Strong, professional leadership qualities, assertive and self-confident individual
- Ability to lead, manage and motivate all staff within sphere of responsibility
- Self-motivated and able to work under own initiative and prioritise workload
Desirable criteria
- Up to date with professional issues that influence healthcare-based MCA practice.
- Able to develop, implement, monitor and evaluate policies/protocols/guidelines relevant to MCA, DoLS and safeguarding
- Able to question and challenge MCA practice in a constructive way so that standards of patient care are continually evaluated and improved
personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Enthusiastic and self-aware
- Creative and Flexible approach to working
- Resilient under pressure
- Team focused
- Reliable, Adaptable and Dependable
Trust Values
Essential criteria
- Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts
- Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both
- Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Cowley
- Job title
- Head of Safeguarding and vulnerable People
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01279 952849
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