Designated Professional for Safeguarding Adults

Job responsibilities

Job Summary

The Designated Professional for Safeguarding Adults is responsible for safeguarding adults as part of the West Yorkshire ICB statutory duties

This post is a strategic post to provide and promote expert leadership, professional advice and strategic advice to health commissioners, for the direction on all aspects of safeguarding adults.

This includes providing expert leadership, professional and strategic advice to health commissioners on all aspects of safeguarding adults in accordance with national and local requirements arising from relevant legislation and guidance working, across the health economy.

The role encompasses enabling and seeking to ensure that the WY ICB complies with national and local requirements arising from relevant legislation and guidance for Safeguarding Adults along with lead strategic responsibility for the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and Deprivation of Liberty safeguards (DoLs) including seeking assurance of compliance and implementation. This includes policy development and providing expert advice to the WYICB, commissioned providers and multi-agency partnerships.

The role will be part of a consolidated safeguarding function at WY but face into place areas to ensure places are meeting their statutory requirements in relation to adult safeguarding

Main Duties and Responsibilities

To fulfil the role of Designated Professional as part of their duties will also be expected to work across other local health and social care organisations in supporting the wider system.

Being responsible to the Associate Director of Quality and Safeguarding, seeking to ensure that the WY through the places is able to demonstrate that it is discharging all its responsibilities for safeguarding adults across the health economy.

Be the lead professional responsible for ensuring that Safeguarding adults is embedded within all WY ICB and place commissioning functions and be responsible for seeking assurance from commissioned Services that Safeguarding Adults is embedded within provider services.

Provide clinical leadership, expert professional advice and strategic

direction on all aspects of safeguarding adults to ensure that health

service contributions are coordinated and integrated across WY ICB,

place-based partnerships, NHS Acute Trusts, Mental Health Partnership Trusts, Local Authorities, Independent health care providers, Police and Probation services and the voluntary sector.

To act as the point of expertise for all issues relating to the Safeguarding Adults agenda and be responsible for the development and implementation of strategy and work plans for Safeguarding Adults in collaboration with the Local Safeguarding Adults Board.

Lead responsibility within the WY ICB and PLACE for the Mental Capacity Act and the Deprivation of Liberty safeguards including monitoring and assurance of compliance with implementation. This includes policy development, expert advice and seeking assurance to ensure practice is compliant with MCA.

Provide leadership to complex enquires/Safeguarding Adults Reviews/ Domestic Homicide Reviews/allegations of abuse or neglect/complaints that may have ethical, legal and professional implications for safeguarding adults at risk, taking responsibility for ensuring the review of case histories in order to undertake, conduct and evaluate Case reviews ensuring where there are lessons to be learnt and systems and processes are established to ensure this occurs within the WY ICB and across the health care continuum and with partner organisations.

Take a supportive partnership approach to working with other organisations including health and social care providers to focus on delivering the needs of adults.

Actively seek and set clear standards for service, including the setting of Key Performance Indicators and seeking assurance that the standards and Indicators are being met through a process of performance and quality monitoring. Work with the Safeguarding Team to support the setting of these.

Provision of high level multi-factorial reports with complex information (that includes cases of adult abuse and neglect) that require detailed analysis, interpretation and presenting of data to highlight issues, associated risks both for the ICB and for the wider local partnership. Be able to support decision making for safeguarding adults, identifying areas that need to be addressed, both within the ICB and wider health and social care footprint. This includes

the provision of an annual report to the ICB.

The development and on-going review of WY ICB and PLACE Safeguarding and other related policies and procedures.

Ensure that the impact of any changes to Safeguarding requirements are understood and reflected within the commissioning and contracts for providers.

Ensure that Safeguarding Adults work streams are integrated with the broader Patient Safety/ quality of care agenda and that there are effective systems of audit that monitors the agreed Safeguarding Adults service standards.

The provision of expert, up to date, advice, training and supervision to professionals working with adults including all independent contractors, GP and their Practice teams on issues relating to the protection and safeguarding of adults. Interpretation of national policy and guidance into local strategies and policies.

Contribute to strategic planning by providing professional advice about the Safeguarding Adults agenda in relation to statutory changes and the impact to both the organisation and professional practice

Member of the Local Safeguarding Adults Board actively contributing to the work of the board.

Actively contributing to the review and updating of Safeguarding Adults multi-agency procedures and guidelines providing professional expertise from a health dimension.

Take responsibility for working with colleagues in the consolidated

safeguarding team across West Yorkshire to support shared work priorities, taking the lead on any identified areas.

General

The post holder will:

Treat people with dignity and respect.

Maintain a high standard of professional and personal conduct.

Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity. The post holder must be aware of and committed to the equality and diversity policies of the organisation.

Ensure the principles of openness, transparency and candour are observed and upheld in all working practices.

Ensure compliance with all mandatory and statutory training relevant to the post.

Be familiar with and adhere to the safeguarding policies, procedures, and guidelines for both children and adults at risk of abuse or neglect. This must be in conjunction with the Multi-agency Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Adults at risk of abuse or neglect Multi- Agency Policy, Protocols and guidelines.

Ensure that any infection prevention and control issues are reported

appropriately.

Be aware of and adhere to the provisions of the Health and Safety at Work Act and to ensure their own safety and the safety of others.

Maintain confidentiality and adhere to the principles of data security and data protection.

Follow a professional Code of Conduct, where relevant to the post.

Participate in the organisational appraisal process.

Be expected to undertake ongoing professional and personal development in line with the responsibilities of the post.

This job description is not intended to be exhaustive. It describes the main duties and responsibilities of the ...