Named Professional Safeguarding Adults

Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.

The single corporate service is delivered across both organisation. You will be based at PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.

This post is only open for applications from individuals employed within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board.

Organisations within scope are as follows:

• Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
• Isle of Wight NHS Trust
• Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
• University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Band:8a

Hours:

37.5

Contract Type:
Permanent

We are seeking an experienced, motivated safeguarding professional to join our senior safeguarding team as the Named Professional for Safeguarding Adults. This is a pivotal Trust-wide leadership role, influencing practice, culture, and outcomes for adults at risk across our organisation and with key partner agencies.

You will provide expert advice, strategic leadership, and professional support to staff at all levels, ensuring the highest standards of safeguarding practice, governance, and learning. Working across complex systems, you will collaborate with multi-agency partners to strengthen coordinated responses and improve outcomes for vulnerable adults.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and Dis Ability, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements.

We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

This role offers the opportunity to:

• Lead and influence safeguarding practice across the Trust and in partnership with colleagues across the Isle of Wight, ensuring a cohesive, high-quality approach across the Group
• Provide expert advice on complex cases, legal frameworks, and policy, supporting consistent decision-making across both trusts
• Drive the development and implementation of a shared safeguarding strategy, including aligned policies, training, supervision, governance, and quality improvement programmes
• Contribute to serious case reviews, thematic reviews, audits, and organisational learning, ensuring lessons are translated into system-wide improvements
• Champion a culture of reflective practice, professional curiosity, and continuous improvement across services and sites

We are looking for a highly credible practitioner with advanced safeguarding expertise, strong strategic leadership skills, and the ability to influence across organisational boundaries. You will be confident in providing constructive challenge, fostering collaboration, and inspiring others to deliver high-quality safeguarding practice.

If you are passionate about protecting adults at risk, developing staff, and driving sustainable system-wide improvement across Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, we would welcome your application.

Please refer to the Job description for further details

• Educated to degree level
• Current healthcare professional registration e.g. NMC, AHP or equivalent e.g. qualified social worker.
• Extensive specialist training in adult safeguarding.
• Formal teaching…