AddressWithin your role you will be responsible for overseeing the day to day corporate and strategic Safeguarding and Prevent functions and statutory responsibilities across the Trust.
You will work closely with the Deputy Director of Quality and Nursing to provide assurance both internally and externally that the Trust is compliant with the statutory duties for children, young people and adults.
The Head of Safeguarding will provide subject matter expertise to the senior leadership team, ensuring that relevant legislation and professional requirements are translated into day to day operational practice. This will include providing safeguarding leadership for the management of Safeguarding allegations against staff.
You will develop and steer the vision and strategy for Safeguarding and Prevent across the trust, whilst leading and managing the Safeguarding team.
The post holder will ensure that robust systems, policies, procedures and professional guidance are in place, to enable staff to identify and escalate safeguarding concerns.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) NHS Trust geographically covers nearly 6,000 square miles of varied terrain, from isolated moors and dales to urban areas, coastline and inner cities.
We serve a population of over five million people across Yorkshire and the Humber and strive to ensure that patients receive the right response to their care needs as quickly as possible, wherever they live.
We employ more than 7,100 staff, who together with over 1,300 volunteers, enable us to provide a vital 24-hour, seven-days-a-week, emergency and healthcare service.
Our ambition is to be an employer of choice, and we are continuously working across our partnership to improve our collective offer to staff in areas like health and wellbeing, benefits and flexible working incl. hybrid working.
Benefits:
- Flexible working including part-time hours, job shares and flexible hours, agile working (role dependant)
- 27 days annual leave, increasing to 33 with service.
- Contributory Pension.
- NHS Discounts including shops, restaurants, gyms etc.
- Car lease and other salary sacrifice schemes.
- Dedicated employee assistance and counselling service.
- Opportunities for research participation, career progression and ongoing development.
- Well respected, committed and supported staff networks for our workforce.
Please see attached Job description and person specification for the full details of the main responsibilities.
