Adult Safeguarding Administrator

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The closing date is 09 March 2026

An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen to join the Safeguarding Adults Team at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust working at the Whiston Hospital site.

The post holder will provide a comprehensive, professional and effective administrative service to the team, including the processing of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) applications. The role will also include taking minutes at meetings and ensure effective data collection. Flexibility and confidentiality are key requirements of this role and a calm and friendly manner when dealing with enquiries and external organisations.

To note the role will be exposed to safeguarding concerns raised relating to adults and children and will require a degree of emotional resilience.

Please be aware, that we may close a vacancy earlier than stated, should a sufficient number of applications be received, you are therefore advised to apply at your earliest convenience.

• The post holder will support the Trust and the Safeguarding Team to meet its statutory safeguarding responsibilities.
• This will include the processing of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) authorisations and undertaking daily communication with the Local Authority.
• The role will include supporting the preparation for external meeting such as MARAC and providing data for both internal and external reporting.
• The role will provide comprehensive confidential administrative support to the Assistant Director of Nursing Safeguarding and the Safeguarding Adults Team.
• The role will include the necessitating of contacts with external bodies, clinical, nursing, management, executive and clerical staff.
• Some cross cover may be required for the safeguarding adults and safeguarding children administrative support when colleagues are absent.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our Services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

• To provide administrative support to the Safeguarding Team to include the management of incoming internal and external communications via email, telephone and post
• To receive and share sometimes complex and highly sensitive communications on behalf of the Safeguarding Team, and to highlight and prioritise communications and elevate to the appropriate person in the safeguarding team.
• As directed by the Named Nurse/Named Midwife disseminate safeguarding information to relevant staff outside of the safeguarding team.
• To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of the relevant systems and processes, attending appropriate training sessions.
• To provide comprehensive secretarial support to the Safeguarding Team, including but not limited to room bookings and some diary management of the above Leads. Preparing and providing training resources that have been developed by the above Leads. Ordering of stationary supplies for team use.
• To maintain up to date and accurate safeguarding patient-centred databases.
• To update the patients clinical record with required safeguarding alerts, and upload completed safeguarding reports to the patients clinical record, ensuring patient information for example demographics is accurate. On the instruction of the Safeguarding Leads create new patient records when necessary.
• To assist in the production and correct formatting of policies and protocols that are relevant to the service.
• Support the monitoring of the effectiveness of the Safeguarding policies and protocols by providing relevant data during their review.
• To prepare e-mails and some general…