Designated Safeguarding Lead Nurse

The post holder will work as part of a team to ensure the ICB meets all statutory safeguarding duties as defined in related documents including the Safeguarding Accountability and Assurance Framework (SAAF) 2024, Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023, Intercollegiate Documents for Children and Adults 20025 and all relevant legislation.

The post holder will have a key role in relation to strategic leadership for safeguarding, system assurance and quality of safeguarding arrangements and delivery of Multi-Agency Priorities for adults and children. Expert clinical advice, learning and improvement and workforce development are key components of the role.

The postholder will be responsible for strategic and operational management of the ICB designated safeguarding functions and ensuring the ICB fulfils all statutory safeguarding duties. The postholder will provide system leadership for a defined Place, managing the local safeguarding team and workstreams including the related strategic plan for their areas of activity. You will work with partners across the sector and wider to ensure delivery of strategic objectives. You will ensure the provision of safeguarding, child protection and adult expertise and leadership throughout locally defined health economy and multiagency partnerships. The role is pivotal to complex case management, improved partnership working, strategic planning, quality assurance and safeguarding improvement.

As a senior member of the team, you will be required to deputise for the Associate Director for Safeguarding and Partnerships as appropriate and to coordinate and oversee the work of Assistant Designated Nurses for Safeguarding working within the same geographical area, delivering key outcomes.

In carrying out your role, at least one of the agreed strategic anchors should be at the core of everything you do:

Commissioning for Value and Outcomes

Accelerating Neighbourhood Health at Pace

Making the Best Use of Digital Solutions in our Pathways

Financial Discipline / 2% Productivity

Advancing Health Equity

Integrated Partnership

You will be accountable for

1. Ensuring the ICB meets all statutory safeguarding duties as defined in related documents including the Safeguarding Accountability and Assurance Framework (SAAF) 2024, Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023, Intercollegiate Documents for Children and Adults 20025 and all relevant legislation including:

Children Act 1989 and 2004

Care Act 2014

Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Liberty Protection Safeguards (when implemented)

NHS Act 2006

Domestic Abuse Act 2021

Serious Violence Duty2023

Ensuring that the NHS can take forward the Safeguarding reforms being implemented as part of the Family First Partnership Programme.

Strategic Leadership

1. Support the Associate Director for Safeguarding and Partnerships in the statutory delivery for Safeguarding Adults and Children designated functions for a defined Place and for related workstreams at Place and System.

2. Act as the expert professional advisor to the Local Safeguarding Partnership and Board on safeguarding matters related to health.

3. Act as the expert professional advisor to the ICB on safeguarding matters including risks, priorities and statutory compliance.

4. Act as the expert professional advisor across the health economy as required.

5. Influence commissioning to ensure that safeguarding is embedded in all services, quality and transformation programmes.

6. Support the Associate Director for Safeguarding and Partnerships in the interpretation of national policy and legislation relating to safeguarding.

7. Lead and support the development of Policy and Procedures related to safeguarding.

8. Direct and support innovation and ensure efficiency and productivity is achieved in safeguarding through effective working at Place.

9. Provide leadership and direction on key safeguarding areas as part of the wider portfolio supporting other safeguarding nurses.

10. Responsible as line manager for a delivery of statutory safeguarding functions at place, line management of the specialist safeguarding nurse and for wider delivery of agreed safeguarding portfolio priorities across the footprint including devising of training fir safeguarding.

System Assurance and Quality

1. Support NHSE and the ICB in the system assurance processes relating to NHS Provider organisations in line with the NHSE Quality Strategy and including a range of Safeguarding Tools including SCAT and SCRT.

2. Ensure safeguarding is addressed as part of the service specifications, contract performance measures and service level agreements with provider organisations, and in the review of their on-going performance.

3. Provide assurance to the ICB Board that all commissioned and contracted providers meet statutory safeguarding requirements as outlined within the SAAF.

4. Lead safeguarding elements of quality assurance including:

Contract monitoring

Quality Schedules

CQC interface

Serious Incident oversight

5. Ensure providers meet safeguarding standards through contractual monitoring, quality schedules and serious incident oversight.

6. Analyse safeguarding data, themes and intelligence to identify system risks and drive improvement.

7. Ensure learning from reviews (SARS, CSPRS, DARDR, CDOPs) is embedded across the system.

8. Develop approaches to evidence impact and outcome of interventions to improve safeguarding practice.

Multi-agency Partnership

1. Represent the ICB at

Safeguarding Adult Boards

Safeguarding Children Partnerships

Domestic Abuse Boards

Prevent/ Channel Panels

Strategic MAPPA

Community Safety Partnerships

2. Ensure effective Multi-Agency Arrangements are in place including information sharing.

3. Provide expert health input into multiagency safeguarding reviews as required.

Expert Clinical Advice

1. Provide expert safeguarding advice as required within the ICB and with all stakeholders.

The Black Country Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a statutory NHS

organisation responsible for developing a plan for meeting the health needs of

1.26 million people in the Black Country. We manage the NHS budget for Dudley,

Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton and are responsible for planning and buying

Primary Medical Services (GPs), dental, optometry and pharmacy services.

We are part of the Black Country Integrated Care System (ICS),

known as Healthier Futures, which is a partnership of organisations working

together to bring health and social care services closer together for the good

of our communities. We support the ICS vision for a healthier place with

healthier people and healthier futures.

The ICB has five core values that underpin the way we work and

help to guide our actions and the decisions we make for local people and

communities. These are compassion, inclusivity, integrity, fairness and trust.

We are an equal opportunities employer who actively supports and

encourages increasing the diversity of our employees, and welcome applications

from people with transferable skills gained through experience across the full

range of health and social care settings.

We are also a bronze award holder under the Defence Employer

Recognition Scheme (ERS). The ERS recognises commitment and support from UK

employers for defence personnel.

Note: the ICB is unable to provide sponsorship to enable an

individual to have the right to work in the UK, due to the size of the

organisation

Qualifications

Experience