About this role
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior nurse or allied health professional to join Chesterfield Royal Hospital as Head of Safeguarding and Harm Free Care (Band 8c).
This is a high-impact leadership role, leading our integrated approach to safeguarding, complex needs, tissue viability and falls prevention across the Trust. You will play a key role in driving improvement, reducing avoidable harm, and ensuring the highest standards of care for our most vulnerable patients.
We are looking for an inspiring and credible clinical leader with significant experience in safeguarding and harm free care, who can work at both strategic and operational levels, influence across the organisation and system, and lead multidisciplinary teams to deliver measurable improvements.
If you are passionate about quality, safety and improving patient outcomes, and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
As Head of Safeguarding and Harm Free Care, you will provide visible, expert and compassionate leadership, driving forward an integrated approach to:
Safeguarding (adults, children and babies)
Tissue viability and pressure ulcer prevention
Falls prevention and reduction of harm
Complex needs and vulnerable patient pathways
You will lead a multidisciplinary team and work closely with clinical, operational and system partners to strengthen a culture of prevention, early intervention and continuous improvement.
This role plays a key part in the Trust's quality and safety agenda, supporting delivery of harm-free care metrics and ensuring robust governance, assurance and learning across services.
About us
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a Foundation Trust serving a population of around 441,000 across the Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, North Amber Valley, High Peak and North East Derbyshire districts with a workforce of around 5000 staff.
Our staff enjoy a range of benefits including on-site parking, local discounts, on-site Cafe and Amazon lockers. There is a cycle-to-work scheme along with electric vehicle charging points. A hub dedicated to the health and wellbeing of our staff, which include rooms for mindfulness, gym and shower facilities and different programmes to keep you active.
Job description Job responsibilities
Job Description
please see the attached job description and person specification
Key Responsibilities
Provide strategic and operational leadershipacross safeguarding, tissue viability, falls prevention and harm-free care Lead and develop the integrated safeguarding and specialist teams, ensuring high-quality case support, supervision and expert advice Drive the harm-free care agenda, reducing avoidable harm through evidence-based practice and quality improvement Oversee Trust-wide approaches to: Pressure ulcer prevention and tissue viability Falls reduction and post-fall management Learning from incidents and embedding improvement Ensure compliance with safeguarding legislation, national policy and best practice guidance Provide expert advice on complex safeguarding and clinical risk issues, ensuring timely and proportionate responses Work collaboratively with system partners, ICS colleagues and external agenciesto strengthen safeguarding and harm prevention Contribute to Trust governance, board assurance and regulatory requirements, including CQC readiness Champion a culture of psychological safety, learning and continuous improvement About You
We are looking for an inspiring, credibleand resilient leaderwho brings both strategic vision and operational grip.
You will be a registered healthcare professional (NMC / HCPC)with significant senior experience and be able to demonstrate:
Extensive leadership experience within safeguarding, tissue viability, falls prevention or patient safety Strong understanding of harm-free care metrics and quality improvement methodologies In-depth knowledge of safeguarding legislation, policyand best practice Proven ability to lead complex clinical services and multidisciplinary teams Experience of influencing and working at senior organisational and system level The confidence to challenge constructively, hold to account and drive improvement Highly developed communication and relationship-building skills Resilience and adaptability within a fast-paced, operational environment A genuine passion for improving outcomes for vulnerable patients and reducing avoidable harm Why Join Us
This is an exciting opportunity to lead at scale in an organisation committed to quality, safetyand continuous improvement.
You will:
Shape the Trusts harm-free care and safeguarding strategy Work alongside an experienced and supportive senior nursing and clinical leadership team Influence care delivery across the organisation and wider system Play a key role in reducing inequalities and improving outcomes for vulnerable groups Be supported to develop and grow in a forward-thinking Trust
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Registered professional with current NMC/ HCPC registration Master's degree or equivalent experience in health-related subject Developed and specialist knowledge of safeguarding and clinical issues at Master level (can be acquired through significant experience in role) Developed and specialist knowledge of safeguarding and clinical issues at Master level (can be acquired through significant experience in role) Training/education qualification or equivalent
Desirable
Supervision qualification Completion of a recognised leadership/management course
Experience Essential
Extensive operational and strategic experience in a safeguarding role (minimum 5 years) Experience of working strategically across a range of safeguarding portfolios with extensive experience of working with a range of partner organisations Excellent knowledge of the safeguarding legal framework Developing, implementing and managing patient experience, quality and performance measure Carrying out investigation (e.g. SI's, SCR's and SILR's) Evidence of working with a wide range of external organisations including local authorities, commissioners and voluntary agencies. Experience of effectively managing teams and ensuring performance consistently delivered Experience in the provision of safeguarding specific supervision. Experience planning, delivery and evaluation of training programmes to various levels of staff
Desirable
Experience of policy/project development Leadership management role Change management
Skills Essential
Working with diverse communities and understand the impact of health inequalities Excellent understanding of health, social care and safeguarding agenda's Knowledge of the safeguarding legal framework Knowledge of the complex needs agenda and management of patient with behaviours that challenge Knowledge of management of harm free care with focus on Tissue viability and Falls management Highly developed communication, influencing and negotiation skills across a wide of people in a variety of settings and group sizes, with very sensitive information Experience of using incident reporting system Communicate safeguarding topics which are complex and sensitive to large groups which may sometimes be very difficult and hostile Ability to organise and prioritise own workload and that of others Experience in conducting investigations Good understanding of quality, safety and risk management and clinical governance process Excellent effective written and verbal communication, data collation, analysis and interpretation of data and formulation of written reports
Desirable
Awareness of court processes Experience with safeguarding specific IT systems
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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 Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address Chesterfield
Chesterfield
Chesterfield
S44 5BL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.chesterfieldroyal.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)