Job overview

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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

COVID19 Vaccination

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

 UK Points-based immigration system

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.  Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route.  Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form.  Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.  Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be  eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.

Communications 

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.

This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.

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