Safeguarding Lead

The post holder will support all activities necessary to ensure that Surrey and Luton services, HCRG Care Group meets its responsibilities to safeguard/protect Adults children and  young people, This includes contributing to the organisational wide safeguarding agenda.

This post is home-based with an element of travel as required .

You will report to the Director of Community Services but have no direct reports yourself.

This is a part-time position with flexibility on discussion of working hour timings.

Package DescriptionAs a Lead for Safeguarding, you’ll be part of our valued team based at Farnham (Opportunities for flexibility around base location and hybrid working)

You will be valued as a Lead for Safeguarding within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

£50,952 - £57,349 Band 8a Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Flexibility on discussion of working hour timings
Free tea and coffee at your base location
Onsite parkin
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year 
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main Responsibilities
Be responsible to and accountable within the managerial framework of Surrey services  ( Adult community services and Special Care Dentistry) and Luton  services intermediate care and MSK services
Develop programmes/ pathways that support the local teams to deliver their contractual obligations and to optimise the health outcome for adults, children, young people,  and to contribute to the development of wider organisational safeguarding policies, processes and procedures
Support and advise colleagues in their responsibility to safeguarding within service provision through HCRG Care Group’s clinical governance processes
Support, advise and provide safeguarding assurance to the local quality, assurance meeting
Provide assurance to the National safeguarding and children in care sub-committee
Contribute to the planning and strategic organisation of safeguarding services

The Ideal CandidateYou will be a registered nurse. You will have a minimum of 5 years’ post registration experience working in a health or social care environment and be able to demonstrate your leadership experience which includes oversight of quality, governance and safety of healthcare services. A proven ability to influence and drive change and improvement with senior leaders is also a requirement.

You'll have completed specific post-registration training in safeguarding adults and / or  children and young people/child protection prior to commencement in the post (including law, policy, and practice at Level 2 or Post Graduate Diploma (PGDip). Having a minimum of three years’ experience practising in the field of safeguarding.

You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. 

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. 

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. 

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