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Job overview

Harrogate & District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) are looking for an experienced & motivated strategic leader to become our new Head of Safeguarding based at Harrogate Hospital, providing visible leadership & oversight of our safeguarding services.  The postholder will also be expected to travel across the geographical footprint as appropriate.

The postholder will provide senior leadership support to our onsite acute safeguarding team, providing strategic leadership and guidance, working closely with our Deputy Director of Nursing CYP/Safeguarding, Named Safeguarding Professionals & Directorate teams to deliver our statutory safeguarding requirements. The postholder will represent HDFT across the Integrated Care System, contributing to the delivery of the safeguarding agenda, providing assurance & working in partnership with Designated Professionals to ensure HDFT meet our statutory & mandatory safeguarding requirements.

The postholder will be responsible for the professional leadership & operational management of the Trust's acute safeguarding team to deliver excellent safeguarding practice across the organisation.  The postholder will also provide professional safeguarding leadership, guidance & support to Named Nurses working within locality teams across our locality based 0-19 services.  The role is pivotal to strengthening safeguarding governance, excellent partnership working & quality assurance to achieve our ambition of delivering excellent safeguarding services.

Main duties of the job

• Provide expert safeguarding advice & supervision on all safeguarding related matters, with an excellent up-to-date knowledge of national safeguarding related legislation & practice.
• Represent HDFT & collaborate with all aspects of North Yorkshire Safeguarding Adults Board & Children's Partnership activity & their associated delivery groups.
• Lead the development, provision & evaluation of safeguarding training & supervision programmes, inclusive for safeguarding adults & children across the organisation for all Trust employees.
• Lead & oversee successful delivery of our Safeguarding annual objectives.
• Produce & present high-quality Trust Board level quality assurance reports inclusive of action plans, risk management & audit data.
• Oversee PREVENT & Mental Capacity Act related work within the Trust.

Working for our organisation

At Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust, we aim to reflect our values in everything we do - Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality. So if you’re looking for an interesting and rewarding career in the NHS, where you can make a real difference to patients’ lives, Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust is the place for you.

HDFT delivers district general hospital and community services to the growing population of Harrogate and District, and wider North Yorkshire community services. This community has a higher than average population of older citizens, many who are already living well in older age and requiring specialist care to continue doing so, and many with complex health and social care needs which would benefit from better joined up healthcare, ideally taking place nearer to home.

New homes being built means the total district population is predicted to continue to grow, with the proportion of over 65s growing fastest.

Our reputation for quality and innovation has enabled us to become the largest provider of Children’s Public Health Services (often known as 0–19 or 0-25 Services) in England – we support over 600,000 Children and Young People through our nine services stretching from Berwick upon Tweed in the North, to Wakefield in the South, and across the whole of North Yorkshire, from Settle in the West to Scarborough in the East.