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Salary1. Provide clinical leadership, and offer specialist clinical advice, guidance, support, and supervision to staff working in the organisation on all adult and childrens safeguarding matters across Children in Care, Primary Care and Local Authority interfaces. 2. Participate in the design and delivery of education and training sessions to a range of professionals across multiple disciplines, in line with the ICBs training strategy. 3. Participate in the design and delivery of multi-agency safeguarding training in cooperation with the Designated Professionals and training leads for the local safeguarding partnership boards. 4. Assist with and contribute to the development of relevant internal and external policy documents that guide and support practice. 5. Work with other agencies to promote and facilitate inter-agency working, providing health advice to partner agencies in relation to safeguarding adults, children, and children in care. 6. Participate in professionals meetings working collaboratively with Commissioning and Adults and Childrens Continuing Care teams. 7. Promote good practice and accurate, open, and effective communication and co-ordination between individuals, providers and all agencies on all matters relating to safeguarding adults and children. 8. Support the ICB Mental Capacity Lead to ensure that compliance with Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards are embedded in practice and that ICB staff are aware of the thresholds for raising concerns and triggering assessments. 9. Support the ICB workforce and assist in report writing and audits where required, and support ICB staff in undertaking these. This may include writing and/or contributing to individual management reviews, child safeguarding practice reviews, Serious Adult Reviews (SARs), Children in Care KPI analysis, audit and performance reports and any other reports where required. 10. Actively participate in ensuring that recommendations and action plans from Serious Incident Reports (SIs), child safeguarding practice reviews, SARs, and other reports where relevant, are implemented appropriately and that any learning from these are incorporated into training and disseminated across the ICB. 11. Ensure appropriate action is taken when clinical risks are identified and that escalation processes are followed appropriately. 12. Be an active member of and participate in the local Safeguarding Partnerships subgroups as required and be responsible for ICB areas of specialist interest, including Primary Care, Children in Care, Domestic Abuse, Child Sexual Exploitation, Hoarding Panels, Neglect, Care Provider and Agency monitoring. 13. Actively contribute to team objectives and deputise for other team members where appropriate. 14. Be a visible and consistent exemplar of safeguarding practice by role modelling practice and upholding ICB values. 15. Undertake a safeguarding lead role for an identified locality. 16. Be an effective member of the Safeguarding team through working collaboratively with the Designated Professionals, Head of Safeguarding, Associate Director Quality and Safeguarding, Deputy Chief and Chief Nurse, Heads of Quality and other team members towards fulfilling the ICB statutory responsibilities in respect of safeguarding and improving outcomes for children and adults. 17. Maintain continuous professional registration in accordance with the requirement of the appropriate regulatory body, ensuring renewal is on time. 18. Participate in regular clinical and managerial supervision where required by your professional body.
