Head of Adult Safeguarding Services

We are seeking an experienced and compassionate safeguarding leader to join Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust as Head of Safeguarding Adults. This role provides strategic, clinical, professional and operational leadership for adult safeguarding across acute and community services.

The post holder will act as the Trust’s lead expert, ensuring statutory duties are met, providing assurance to the Trust Board, and supporting services to deliver safe, effective and responsive safeguarding practice. They will lead the development of robust governance, systems, processes and training, while promoting visible, inclusive and collaborative leadership.

The role also provides professional leadership to the Acute Liaison Learning Disabilities nurses and the Dementia and Delirium Clinical Nurse Specialists. Working with internal teams, local authorities, commissioners, health and social care partners and wider stakeholders, the post holder will strengthen partnership working and ensure safeguarding activity reflects local and national requirements.

They will provide expert advice on complex and sensitive issues, including the Mental Capacity Act and Liberty Protection Safeguards, and support best practice sharing across the organisation. This is an excellent opportunity for a credible safeguarding leader to influence practice, build effective relationships across organisational boundaries and contribute to sustained improvements in the care and protection of vulnerable adults.

The post holder will lead the Trust’s adult safeguarding function, ensuring statutory requirements are met and providing assurance to the Trust Board.

As the Trust’s safeguarding adults lead expert, they will offer specialist advice, guidance and visible leadership across all services, acting as a role model for the care and protection of vulnerable adults.

They will support Clinical Groups to meet required safeguarding standards, address areas of risk, implement corrective actions and deliver high-quality safeguarding adults training.

The role provides strategic, operational, professional and clinical leadership across acute and community services, including professional leadership for the Acute Liaison Learning Disabilities nurses and the Dementia and Delirium Clinical Nurse Specialist team.

The post holder will ensure effective governance, systems and processes are in place so safeguarding activity is coordinated, responsive and aligned with local and national requirements.

They will work collaboratively with Clinical Group leadership teams, local authorities, commissioners, health and social care providers and external partners to strengthen partnership working and promote consistent safeguarding practice.

The successful candidate will be an experienced communicator, able to manage complex and sensitive information, build effective relationships across organisational boundaries and report at senior and strategic levels on safeguarding adults activity.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s busiest and most successful foundation trusts, providing outstanding hospital and community services across Lambeth, Southwark and beyond.

Our services include internationally recognised specialist care in areas such as heart and lung, cancer and renal services, alongside a full range of local hospital and community care.

The Trust brings together five of the UK’s best-known hospitals — Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield — with a strong history of clinical excellence, research, teaching and innovation.

As part of King’s Health Partners, one of England’s academic health sciences centres, we work with partners to advance care, education and research for the benefit of patients and communities. With around 22,700 staff, we are one of the largest NHS Trusts and local employers.

We are committed to recruiting and retaining skilled, dedicated staff who share our values and help us deliver safe, high-quality, patient-focused services.

Our values are Caring,

Ambitious and Inclusive: we put patients first, strive for excellence and innovation, respect each other, work collaboratively and aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ciara Mackay Job title: Director of Nursing- Safeguarding Adults Email address: ***email_hidden***