Safeguarding Adults Lead Nurse (or Professional): Sponsorship Available

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

The post holder will provide leadership, expert safeguarding advice and management support. The post-holder will work with the Head of Safeguarding Adults and the wider safeguarding team to continually improve and develop safeguarding adults services, aligning with the Trust’s strategic aims and the local and national safeguarding agenda.

Providing effective communication, networking and liaison, establishing and maintaining good working relationships within health services and with other agencies to ensure that information relating to adult protection and safeguarding is up to date and embedded in practice.

The successful candidate will undertake relevant projects as required. The post holder will identify areas for service improvement through the use of a working knowledge of improvement methodologies. The post-holder will lead service development aimed at improving quality including patient and carer experience of specialist care, concentrating on delivering a holistic and person-centred approach and promotion of good professional practice.

The post holder will work in collaboration with the Head of safeguarding adults on risk management, patient safety and clinical governance issues within the context of safeguarding adults. The post holder will foster a culture of prevention, early and accurate identification and management of safeguarding concerns for the organisation.

Main duties of the job

To provide professional leadership, consultancy, advice, risk assessment and expert adult protection practice, to support practitioners on actions to be taken in order to safeguard an adult at risk. This will involve the dissemination of the specialist skills and knowledge to others.

To provide leadership to the safeguarding adults service, ensuring a culture which focuses on responsiveness, multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working, and high standards of performance and quality.

Exercise a high degree of autonomy to make critical decisions and judgements and deliver advanced clinical skills to the case management of vulnerable adults with complex safeguarding needs. Interpret all of the available information to make justifiable assessments when making a differential safeguarding diagnosis.

Provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information where a wide range of skills including persuasion, motivation, negotiation, empathy and reassurance are required e.g. modernising services and implementing change.

The post holder will act as an exemplary senior clinical role model to the senior nursing team, leading and supporting growth, development and extended roles for the safeguarding adults team to allow collaborative working across the service. Maintain a high clinical presence and visibility within the service areas.

Person Specification

Education, GTraining and qialifications

Essential

  • Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area

Desirable

  • Mangement /leadership qialification

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

  • In-depth knowledge of safeguarding related legislation including MCA/DoLS, Care Act 2024, Domestic Abuse Act.
  • Experience in leading safeguarding systems and managing change

Desirable

  • Experience of board level reporting and participation/attendance at Safeguarding Adult Boards

Skills and abilities

Essential

  • Experience of managing and motivating a team,

Desirable

  • Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy in relation to safeguarding adults

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).

Closing Date: 29 October 2026

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