About this role
Job summary Package Description: Youll be a valued Lead for Safeguarding within HCRG Care Group, with flexibility around your base location and the option of hybrid working. In return, youll enjoy a range of rewards and benefits, including: A salary of £55,690 £62,682 (Band 8a), with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions The flexibility to talk through working hours that fit around your life Free tea and coffee at your base location, plus onsite parking Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you discounts on everyday purchases like your weekly shop, along with cashback and voucher offers for you and the people you love Access to your wages as you earn them, helping you cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high-interest borrowing Online and face-to-face support for your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges to post-trauma support, and help with legal, debt, life-management and career questions, including counselling eLearning, bespoke career pathways and continuing professional develo
Main duties of the job As our Lead for Safeguarding, youll help make sure our Surrey and Luton services protect and support the adults, children and young people in our care. Youll drive our organisation-wide safeguarding agenda, working across teams to keep the people we serve safe. This is a home-based role with travel as required. Youll report to the Director of Community Services and, while you wont have any direct reports, your influence will be felt across every service. Its a part-time position, and were happy to talk through working patterns that suit you. The ideal candidate is a registered nurse with at least five years post-registration experience in a health or social care environment. The role requires strong leadership including oversight of the quality, governance, and safety of healthcare services and a proven ability to influence and drive change and improvement alongside senior leaders.
About us HCRG Care Group is one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, established in 2006. HCRG Care Group works with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services focusing on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. They deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, and musculoskeletal (MSK) services, as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, the group supports communities of many millions and directly helps more than half a million people each year. Their guiding values are: they care, they think, they do. HCRG Care Group is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from a diverse range of individuals who want to join their team. As a Disability Confident Committed company, they work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments, and technical solutions for inclusivity.
Job description Job responsibilities Package Description:
Package Description
Youll be a valued Lead for Safeguarding within HCRG Care Group, with flexibility around your base location and the option of hybrid working. In return, youll enjoy a range of rewards and benefits, including:
A salary of £55,690 £62,682 (Band 8a), with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions The flexibility to talk through working hours that fit around your life Free tea and coffee at your base location, plus onsite parking Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you discounts on everyday purchases like your weekly shop, along with cashback and voucher offers for you and the people you love Access to your wages as you earn them, helping you cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high-interest borrowing Online and face-to-face support for your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges to post-trauma support, and help with legal, debt, life-management and career questions, including counselling eLearning, bespoke career pathways and continuing professional development through The Learning Enterprise, our learning and development team. An open, just culture where youre encouraged to share and act on ideas that help us deliver our purpose backed by at least £100,000 of ring-fenced innovation funding every year The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards, with the majority of our rated services holding Good or Outstanding ratings from the Care Quality CommissionWe change lives by transforming health and care and safeguarding is at the very heart of that promise.
As our Lead for Safeguarding, youll help make sure our Surrey and Luton services protect and support the adults, children and young people in our care. Youll drive our organisation-wide safeguarding agenda, working across teams to keep the people we serve safe.
This is a home-based role with travel as required.Youll report to the Director of Community Services and, while you wont have any direct reports, your influence will be felt across every service. Its a part-time position, and were happy to talk through working patterns that suit you.
Main Responsibilities
In this role, youll:
Work within the managerial framework of our Surrey services (adult community services and special care dentistry) and Luton services (intermediate care and MSK services) Develop programmes and pathways that help local teams meet their contractual obligations and improve health outcomes for adults, children and young people and contribute to our wider organisational safeguarding policies, processes and procedures Support and advise colleagues on their safeguarding responsibilities within service provision, through HCRG Care Groups clinical governance processes Provide safeguarding advice and assurance to the local Quality and Assurance meeting Provide assurance to the National Safeguarding and Children in Care Sub-Committee Contribute to the planning and strategic organisation of safeguarding servicesThe Ideal Candidate
Youre a registered nurse with at least five years post-registration experience in a health or social care environment.You can show strong leadership including oversight of the quality, governance and safety of healthcare services and a proven ability to influence and drive change and improvement alongside senior leaders.
Before starting the role, youll have completed specific post-registration safeguarding training in adults and/or children and young people (child protection), covering law, policy and practice at Level 2 or Post Graduate Diploma (PGDip). Youll also bring at least three years experience practising in the field of safeguarding.
Youre confident with IT too, with a working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word and Excel.
About the Company
We 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.Were 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 doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As youd 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.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company youll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job well need to process and hold information about you.If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Youre a registered nurse with at least five years post-registration experience in a health or social care environment. Before starting the role, youll have completed specific post-registration safeguarding training in adults and/or children and young people (child protection), covering law, policy and practice at Level 2 or Post Graduate Diploma (PGDip). Youll also bring at least three years experience practising in the field of safeguarding.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name HCRG Care Group
Address HCRG Care Group
Farnham
GU3 1LR
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)