Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.
Job overview
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an exceptional Senior Named Professional Safeguarding Adults and Children to join our specialist safeguarding service. This is a high-profile leadership role offering the opportunity to shape safeguarding practice, provide expert advice and assurance, and drive improvement across health services and multi-agency partnerships.
A significant aspect of this role is providing safeguarding leadership and support to staff across Swindon, Wiltshire and Bath & North East Somerset (BaNES). You will also support safeguarding leadership in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire as part of the role.
You will be expected to maintain a visible presence within services and partner agencies, attending meetings, supervision, training and safeguarding activities in person. The role requires flexibility to work across organisational boundaries and geographical locations to support service delivery and business continuity.
This is an opportunity to join a highly respected safeguarding team and play a vital role in ensuring robust safeguarding arrangements across a large, integrated NHS Trust. You will contribute to strategic leadership, quality improvement, governance, training, partnership working and the development of outstanding safeguarding practice.
If you are looking for a role where you can make a real impact on safeguarding adults and children, we would love to hear from you.
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We are particularly looking for candidates with experience and expertise in both adult and children safeguarding. The successful candidate will provide specialist leadership across areas including:
- Adult safeguarding and Section 42 enquiries
- Child Protection Processes
- Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- Self-neglect/neglect and complex risk management
- Domestic abuse, modern slavery and exploitation
- Safeguarding Adults Reviews
- Local safeguarding children practice reviews
- Facilitating group supervision
- Delivering and developing training
- Audit and quality improvement
- Multi-agency working
Working for our organisation
Please note that this role will require us to undertake a DBS check as a part of your onboarding.
Give yourself the best chance of success by reviewing our Applicant Guide before applying. Your supporting statement should clearly demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria for the role.
Oxford Health delivers physical, mental health and social care services across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Our vision is "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team", and our values are Caring, Safe and Excellent.
We are proud to offer a supportive working environment with opportunities for career progression, learning and development, generous annual leave, pension benefits, wellbeing initiatives and staff networks
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Safeguarding leadership and support to staff across Swindon, Wiltshire and Bath & North East Somerset (BaNES).
Support safeguarding leadership in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire as part of the role.
Facilitate service delivery related to
- Adult safeguarding and Section 42 enquiries
- Child Protection Processes
- Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- Self-neglect/neglect and complex risk management
- Domestic abuse, modern slavery and exploitation
- Safeguarding Adults Reviews
- Local safeguarding children practice reviews
- Facilitating group supervision
- Delivering and developing training
- Audit and quality improvement
- Multi-agency working
- Line management of safeguarding service staff
- Reporting processes
- All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
- Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
- We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
- Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
- We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
- We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing