We are currently seeking a passionate and highly experienced nurse with a strong background in managing safeguarding cases or situations. The ideal candidate will have some acute hospital experience or possess transferrable skills that will contribute to our dedicated team's safeguarding agenda.
This role enables the successful candidate to develop their clinical expertise relating to safeguarding children and young people. You will gain experience within the role by covering all of our 5 sites, including our trauma services, specialist eye hospital, 2 accident and emergency departments, 3 urgent care centres, sexual health services, and inpatient paediatric services such as general medicine, paediatric intensive care, and specialist hematology and infectious disease services.
We are fortunate to work within a large integrated safeguarding team. The team consists of Named Nurses for Children and Adults, a Consultant Nurse, Named Midwife, Named Doctor, Safeguarding midwives, Safeguarding nurses for both children and adults, a Domestic abuse nurse, learning disability staff, and administrators.
The team works over the weekend between the hours of 9-5, so weekend working would be part of the hours for this role.
Main duties of the jobAs part of the day-to-day role, you will triage all children under 18 attendances to unscheduled care, liaise and share information with external agencies (e.g., health visitors, school nurses, social workers, integrated gang unit workers, and Redthread), ensuring the safety and wellbeing of the children.
You will deliver safeguarding training to staff and provide safeguarding supervision. You will advocate for children in various safeguarding meetings and work collaboratively with other members of the multidisciplinary team. You will be supported and mentored by the safeguarding team, named nurses, and consultant nurse.
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Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative, and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, and a staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan, or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time, or job share. Please talk to us at the interview.
Job responsibilitiesThe full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required.
For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person SpecificationEducation/QualificationsRN (Child) or RN and registered Health Visitor/Specialist Community Public Health Nurse with completion of child & family focus programmeEducated to a degree level in a relevant subject area or evidence of equivalentRN with relevant safeguarding children experienceRecognised teaching/assessing qualificationExperienceExperience of working within an acute hospital setting with children, young people, and their familiesExperience of team working and liaison with other agenciesEvidence of experience in safeguarding practiceExperience and knowledge of quality, standard setting, and auditSound experience in managing complaints and quality assuranceExperience of multi-agency workingEvidence of innovative practice that involves change, research, and/or auditExperience of providing supervision to staffSkills/knowledge/abilitiesEvidence of undertaking a senior role working with children, young people, and familiesDetailed and thorough knowledge of current safeguarding legislation and guidelinesKnowledge of quality, standard setting, and auditDemonstrable understanding of National and Local health strategiesProven ability to effectively manage changeGood time management skills, with the ability to meet deadlines and work effectively under pressureAbility to prioritise clinical workload according to need and make decisions accordinglyArticulate with advanced written and verbal communication skills and ability to write reports suitable for presentation to various audiencesSound IT skills (including email and office packages)Able to give safeguarding supervisionAble to teach and ability to lone workDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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