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From the employer's advert, checked 26 October 2026.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors as “Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust” (Skilled Worker). Register checked 23 October 2026.
About the job
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.
About us
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best-known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high-quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
Job responsibilities
Work with the Head of Safeguarding Adults and wider safeguarding team to identify areas for service improvement using a sound knowledge of service improvement methodology.
Ensure that the safeguarding perspective is considered within all service improvement programmes particularly in relation to quality and safety, patient and parent experience and engagement.
Communicate with a wide range of stakeholders at Trust, local and national levels including patients and carers, clinicians, senior management representing the safeguarding adults agenda for the organisation.
Support the implementation of systems, control processes and risk management arrangements to support monitoring of compliance with safeguarding standards, clinical governance standards, other Trust-wide policies and best practice requirements.
Support the implementation of systems, control processes and risk management arrangements to support monitoring of compliance with safeguarding standards, clinical governance standards, other Trust-wide policies and best practice requirements.
Lead a culture of professional accountability and responsibility to patients, ensuring that staff learn from complaints, near misses, critical incidents and all forms of patient feedback. Support processes of risk incident investigation, root cause, trend and feedback analysis.
Ensure that dynamic continuing professional development, training and education opportunities are in place to develop a skilled and competent workforce within the available resources. To identify the training needs of staff working with adults within the Trust and prepare, together with the safeguarding trainer a training programme to address these.
Job description
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