Data Protection and Safeguarding Coordinator

Data Protection and Safeguarding Coordinator – Care Homes.

Up to £28,000 plus £5,000 Car Allowance

(National Travel and Home Working)

Harbour Healthcare

Harbour Healthcare are recruiting for a Data Protection and Safeguarding Coordinator to join the business to manage and maintain its legal compliance across 20 Care Home’s. Harbour Healthcare is a family-run concern, although one with very considerable experience and expertise in the care industry.

Who are Harbour Healthcare?

We are a Family run business with 20 Care Homes across the UK and are growing year by year.

Having family traditions at heart, our philosophy is actually quite simple. We strive to provide an excellent standard of care to our residents, treating them with complete dignity and respect.

We are looking for people who care regardless of qualifications or experience. We care more about you sharing and demonstrating our values, which are, -

• Humility
• Accountability
• Achievement
• Passion
• Integrity

What are the Tangible benefits for working for Harbour?

• A duvet day on your birthday!
• Perkbox Account with discounts on Shopping, Fashion, Days out, Travel, Entertainment, and lots more!
• Wellness and Employee Assistance programs
• Staff recognition award ceremonies
• Employee of the month schemes
• Opportunities for training and career progression
• Company pension scheme
• Seasonal Company events, competitions, and incentives
• Employee referral scheme

Principal Role & Accountabilities:

• To support the Data Subject Access Request Specialist in providing an efficient service in relation to Information right requests.
• To send out acknowledgement responses to any current Data Subject Requests in a timely manner.
• To liaise directly with the relevant segment/dimension to collate the personal data in question and arrange for it to be uploaded
• Carry out administration processes, photocopying, dispatching, and hastening outstanding data subject access requests and files.
• To provide admin support in response to Data Subject Requests to ensure compliance with DP legislation.
• Liaise with the People, Quality and Compliance teams on data subject requests.
• To complete actions required ensure up to date maintenance of content in a Data Registry ensuring the storage, arrangement and indexing of the completed Data Subject Request work is retained in compliance with DP legislation.
• Assist the wider organisation to ensure strict compliance to DP legislation and overall Data Governance.
• Ensure that all processes and documentation related to DP SARs are robustly maintained, protecting integrity and quality of data and version control.
• All tasks and interactions related to delivering the service are completed according to the principles & practice detailed within the Information Security Policy and any other additional security requirements.
• To support in the day-to-day operational safeguarding and welfare provision for Harbour Healthcare.
• To effectively advise, coach and influence safeguarding and welfare referrals at all levels
• To ensure all staff know how to raise safeguarding concerns and understand the symptoms of abuse & neglect
• To safeguard, support and implement effective individual action.
• To represent Harbour Healthcare and participate in appropriate external networking meetings and training sessions including strategy discussions and multi-agency meetings
• To contribute to the continuous development of Harbour Healthcare systems to improve their effectiveness and efficiency to ensure effective safeguarding
• To build and develop contact and working relationships with multi-agency teams across the Borough and wider networks.

The Person:

• General awareness of main themes in privacy and data protection
• Experience of writing clear communications in plain English whether in letter or e-mail format
• Experience of dealing with multiple requests and coordination of these across the business
• Exceptional time-management, administrative and organisational skills
• Keen reader with good research skills
• Ability to work to agreed deadlines
• Ability to work independently and as part of the team
• Proficient with IT skills especially in MS Excel (for the purpose of maintaining registers and reporting) Outlook, Word, Excel etc.) as well as PDF Converter
• Previous Healthcare sector experience and an understanding of how the Care Sector operates.
• Broad knowledge of the regulatory environment of CQC (Care Quality Commission)

Harbour Healthcare have won many accolades and awards over the years from carehome.co.uk Top 20 Awards, now for the 5th year running as well as Disability Confident Committed.

Please note that all our positions require an Enhanced DBS check in relation to Children and Adults.

Interested? – Go on and click that apply button now!