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Interim Safeguarding Specialist – Adults

Matthew Wood — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 09:21:40 +0000

Daily rate: Band 8b equivalent
Start date: ASAP
Duration: 3 -6 months
Location: Yorkshire

Key deliverables:

Provide specialist knowledge, advice and practice to Trust staff consistent with the requirements of the Trust Safeguarding Adult policy and procedure.
Effectively promote the Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults by enabling staff to identify families were Adult Safeguarding may be an issue.
Ensure records for Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults are written and stored in compliance with the policies and clinical governance framework of the Trust.
Contribute to the management of risk in relation to individual cases.
Provide specialist knowledge, support and advice to staff on safeguarding adult issues.
Undertake project work in relation to developing the Safeguarding Unit.

Matthew Wood — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 14:09:55 +0000

RGN qualified nurse with 25 years experience in the provision of health services within acute and community settings.
Extensive experience in safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, training and consultancy.
Experienced in developing systems that reflect the legal and national frameworks with effective evaluation and monitoring processes.
Expertly developed key policies for 2 x South West based Primary care organisations.
Completion of internal management review at one. Emphasis was upon equality, diversity and ensuring the rights of children were reflected in outcomes.
Developed a Looked After Children’s service in conjunction with the Local Authority which had not been in place prior.
Robustly provided clinical supervision for named safeguarding professionals across numerous SE based CCGs and Acute Providers;
Effectively developed the standards and audit procedure of Child Protection Services for a Midlands based Primary Care provider.
Authored 4 x internal management reviews, reviewing and monitoring the actions taken by Trusts and Agencies to implement the findings of the reviews;
Outstanding commercial acumen paired with a ‘can-do’ attitude and excellent interpersonal skills.

Matthew Wood — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:58:41 +0000

Daily rate: £400 per day
Start date: ASAP
Duration: 3 months initially
Location: Midlands

Key criteria / Deliverables:

Must be clinically qualified.
Support a group of CCG’s in the setting up of new Personal Health Budgets (PHBs).
Implement the next stage of PHBs for the local population.
Support the Strategic Lead to develop the service moving forward.
The PHB programme has been expanded beyond Continuing Care in line with the National Strategic direction.
Use clinical expertise to analyse and challenge health information and assessments to ensure that an accurate assessment of children’s needs are documented.
Provide high quality, integrated health assessments for children and young people across the area that will determine eligibility for Children’s Continuing Care.
This is an exciting opportunity to influence the implementation of PHBs to enable children and their carers to have more input to the way their care is delivered.

Matthew Wood — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 10:27:52 +0000

Clinically qualified (RGN) operationally focused manager with exceptional skills in day to day management.
Experienced in transformational change, service reconfiguration and the development of acute and community services.
Quickly and professionally engaged a hostile team of consultants at a South East based NHS FT within A&E and Acute Medicine.
Acted as Divisional General Manager for 12 months, improved patient flows to retrieve and win the 4 hour A&E Target.
Introduced reverse triages and clinical challenges on the wards to manage discharges and reduce Length of Stay from 3.6 days to 2.2 days.
Reduced the number of A&E attendees by 2.8% through project management and delivery of an Urgent Care Centre.
Adeptly managed the Urgent Care Programme and oversaw the financial recovery of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery for a London based NHS Trust.
Programme Managed the roll-out of a complex Urgent Care Centre model which included merging existing A&E Minor sites and Walk-In Centres.
Developed financial recovery plan for Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery – increased income for the division by £300k in 60 days.
Expertly redesigned Stroke Service pathways with clinicians and reduced patient waits for scans from an average of 72 hours to 5 hours.
Outstanding commercial acumen paired with a ‘can-do’ attitude and excellent interpersonal skills.

Matthew Wood — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 17:25:02 +0000

RGN qualified nurse with 25 years experience in the provision of health services within acute and community settings.
Extensive experience in safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, training and consultancy.
Experienced in developing systems that reflect the legal and national frameworks with effective evaluation and monitoring processes.
Expertly developed key policies for 2 x South West based Primary care organisations. Completion of internal management review at one. Emphasis was upon equality, diversity and ensuring the rights of children were reflected in outcomes.
Developed a Looked After Children’s service in conjunction with the Local Authority which had not been in place prior.
Robustly provided clinical supervision for named safeguarding professionals across numerous SE based CCGs and Acute Providers.
Effectively developed the standards and audit procedure of Child Protection Services for a Midlands based Primary Care provider.
Authored 4 x internal management reviews, reviewing and monitoring the actions taken by Trusts and Agencies to implement the findings of the reviews
Outstanding commercial acumen paired with a ‘can-do’ attitude and excellent interpersonal skills.

Matthew Wood — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 21:22:07 +0000

Daily rate: £550 – £600
Start date: ASAP
Duration: 3 months initially
Location: London

Key deliverables:

Provide training and safeguarding supervision to Children’s Services.
Develop, coordinate and deliver a comprehensive Inter-Agency, Training Programme covering all aspects of Child Protection
Write training materials, articles, policies, action plans and conference reports.
Deliver quality assurance and identifying improvements to Children’s services.
Ensure that safeguarding systems are in place of a robust standard to comply with legal requirements.
Must have safeguarding experience to provide advice and support to the Service.