Job overview

Join Our Senior Nursing Leadership Team

Are you a dynamic, innovative and highly experienced safeguarding professional looking for an opportunity to make a lasting impact across an ambitious and patient-focused organisation?

We are seeking an exceptional Head of Safeguarding and Vulnerabilities to join our senior nursing leadership team. This is a pivotal role for a dedicated and influential leader who is passionate about safeguarding, patient safety and improving outcomes for some of our most vulnerable patients.

Reporting directly to the Chief Nurse (Director of Safeguarding and Vulnerabilities), you will provide strategic leadership, expert professional advice and organisational assurance across the Trust's safeguarding and vulnerability agenda. You will be a credible visible leader, trusted advisor and champion for safeguarding excellence, ensuring we meet our statutory responsibilities while driving continuous improvement across all services.

Main duties of the job

As the Trust's senior professional safeguarding adviser, you will lead and develop a comprehensive safeguarding and vulnerabilities portfolio, including:

• Safeguarding Children and Adults
• Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
• Dementia Care
• Learning Disability and Autism
• Transition Services
• Domestic Abuse
• Modern Slavery
• PREVENT
• Persons in Positions of Trust (PiPoT)
• Public Protection and Vulnerability Programmes

You will provide strategic oversight of safeguarding governance, ensuring robust systems are in place to identify, monitor, escalate and learn from safeguarding concerns, incidents and statutory reviews. Working closely with executive colleagues, clinical leaders and system partners, you will ensure safeguarding remains embedded in every aspect of patient care and organisational decision-making.

Leading a highly respected Safeguarding and Vulnerabilities Team, you will foster a culture of professional curiosity, learning, compassion and accountability. You will provide expert guidance on complex safeguarding issues and ensure high-quality safeguarding supervision, education, quality assurance and support arrangements are in place across the Trust.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest specialist orthopaedic units in Europe. We offer planned orthopaedic surgery to people locally, nationally and internationally.

Our Trust is a very special hospital; big enough to deliver world class services and small enough to offer exceptional patient and staff experience. We offer a working experience unique in the West Midlands and we're always on the lookout for passionate people to join our award-winning team.

The ROH is an equal opportunities employer. We employ people of difference and are committed to growing an inclusive culture, where difference is celebrated, and people feel able to bring their whole and authentic self to work.

We are a Disability Confident Leader and offer a range of inclusive, family friendly and flexible working arrangements and policies, to support our people in the workplace. Flexible working requests will be considered.

The Trust is committed to the Disability Confident Interview Scheme and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy and consider them on their abilities.

If you have a disability and need any support with your application or require any reasonable adjustments to be implemented please do get in touch with the Recruiting Manager for this position so that the team can support you.