Safeguarding adult specialist nurse

The Safeguarding Adults Specialist Nurse plays a pivotal role in providing expert guidance on safeguarding matters, ensuring a robust response to adults with care and support needs who may be at risk of abuse or neglect. This position supports Trust staff in managing complex cases, facilitating the delivery of safe and effective clinical services that prioritise the wellbeing and rights of vulnerable adults. The Specialist Nurse liaises appropriately with external agencies to promote integrated care and timely interventions, contributes actively to safeguarding education programmes for staff, and fosters effective multi-agency collaboration to uphold best practice and legal requirements in safeguarding. This post will involve travel to all OUH sites.

• Contribute to the delivery of Safeguarding services as detailed in the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act including DOLS and other national and local legislation and policy.
• To support the development and implementation of safeguarding practice across the Trust ensuring effective multi-agency liaison, meeting the statutory requirements.
• Provide specialist advice, support and guidance to all Trust staff in relation to legislation, policy, multiagency procedures for safeguarding our patients at risk of abuse or neglect to embed the principles of safeguarding into every day professional practice who are at risk of abuse or neglect.
• Disseminate and communicate decisions and appropriate health information to relevant health professionals including the Named Nurse and/or Doctor where appropriate and sharing of best practice.
• Provide advice, support and guidance to staff in relation to all aspects of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 including Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards 2009.
• Communicate effective information to patients/relatives/carers/ and all members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Develop and maintain specialist knowledge of nursing practice relevant to the clinical area.
• Conduct oneself in a professional manner and be a role model to others at all times commensurate with The Code (NMC 2015).
  
  

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Clare Camidge or Tracy Toohey Job title: Safeguarding adult operational manager Email address: clare.camidge@ouh.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01865234565