Safeguarding concerns including domestic abuse

Examples of concerns

• Adult / child suffering emotional / verbal / physical / sexual abuse
  
• Personal experience of domestic / sexual abuse
  
• Criminal conduct involving a colleague / member of OUH staff
  
• Radicalisation / extremism involving a colleague / member of OUH staff

Informal advice

• Line Manager
  
• OUH Safeguarding Team (for concerns relating to patients)
• Workforce Safeguarding Team: DesignatedSafeguardingOfficer@ouh.nhs.uk
  (for concerns relating to colleagues)
• External Safeguarding Support - Safeguarding | Useful links (sharepoint.com)

Wellbeing support

• Wellbeing Champion - Guide to Health and Wellbeing
  
• Occupational Health
  
• Employee Assistance Programme (CareFirst)
  
• Staff Support Service (Psychological Medicine)
  
• OUH staff networks
  
• Chaplaincy
  
• Staff Side - Trade Unions (sharepoint.com)
  

What to do next

• Speak directly to a member of the OUH Safeguarding Team (for concerns relating to patients)
• Contact the Designated Safeguarding Officer for Workforce: DesignatedSafeguardingOfficer@ouh.nhs.uk (for concerns relating to colleagues)
• Signpost colleagues to Trust support for example Guide to Health and Wellbeing
  
• Don't speak to multiple people about your concerns
  

If your concern is not resolved

• Follow the formal process set out in the Managing Allegations Against Staff and Persons in a Position of Trust Policy (sharepoint.com)
  

Escalating a concern

Safeguarding | Useful links (sharepoint.com)

1. Head of Safeguarding / Lead Designated Safeguarding Officer (Workforce)
2. Chief Nursing Officer
   
3. Care Quality Commission (CQC)

For more detail please visit:

Signposting formal employee concerns | Safeguarding