Lead Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children

Job overview

Are you an enthusiastic, and committed Nurse with a wealth of experience in safeguarding?

Do you Think Family?

If so, we are interested in you

We are looking for a nurse to lead the Childrens agenda in Safeguarding at CWPT, a multi-faceted Trust covering three Local Authorities

This is a highly skilled role

We are wanting to appoint someone in our Named Nurse role who will lead the Trust Safeguarding Childrens agenda with innovation, knowledge passion and dedication. You will need a strategic approach, with excellent communication and leadership skills

If that person is you, we would like to meet you

Main duties of the job

This role supports the Head of Safeguarding.  The role entails working across the local health and social care economies to prevent harm, fostering, and facilitating multi-professional interagency working in respect of safeguarding children.

The role is that of a highly developed clinical specialist for safeguarding children within the Trust ensuring the trust implement the elements of the Children Act 1989/04, Working Together 2023, Children and Social Work Act 2017 and the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 in respect of safeguarding children. These obligations are fulfilled by providing clinical leadership across the field of safeguarding children.

The scope of the post includes liaison across agencies in the contribution and development of child safeguarding practice, supervision, education, accountability, governance, and provision of expert advice based upon mandatory and statutory frameworks and guidelines. Working collaboratively in providing high quality evidence-based services to support the development of effective inter-disciplinary and inter-agency relationships with other NHS Trusts, Local Authority, Police, and other Statutory and Voluntary agencies in order to minimise the risks to children.

The post holder is required to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information where significant barriers to acceptance need to be overcome using the highest levels of interpersonal and communication skills.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see Job Description attached which details main responsibilities including:

• Training - To support the Head of safeguarding and safeguarding team in identifying the safeguarding children training needs for the organisation and more..
• Promoting Safeguarding - To promote the safeguarding of Children within the organisation and more..
• Specialist Knowledge -  To apply knowledge of the current legislation around promoting and safeguarding the health, welfare, and safety of children, and more..
• Advice and Support - To promote good professional practice within the Trust around safeguarding children by having oversight of the Named professional staff when they are providing safeguarding children advice and guidance on request to all Trust staff and more..
• Multi-Agency Working - To participate in and promote multi-agency working by liaising closely with the Local Safeguarding Children Boards to ensure a joined-up approach to safeguarding children, and more..
• Evidence Based Practice - To use research and core audit skills to evaluate, develop and improve standards of practice and use lessons learned from multi agency reviews to inform and improve practice, and more..
• Clinical Governance - To support the organisation in its clinical governance role, by implementing and completing relevant safeguarding audits as required by the Trust, safeguarding partnership or other relevant body, and more..
• Public Health - To work across agencies to develop and embed preventative strategies around abuse and neglect for children, and more..
• Communication - The post holder is required to utilise the highest level of skill in the relaying of sensitive, highly confidential, highly complex and highly contentious information. The post holder will be required to do this across a range of situations and environments with staff, patients, relatives, carers, and different agencies, and more..
• Analytical and Judgemental Skills / Freedom to Act - To apply knowledge of the current legislation around promoting and safeguarding the health, welfare, protection, and safety of children to complex safeguarding concerns, and more..
• Planning and Organisational Skills - Autonomously organise, prioritise, and manage own workload pressures, meeting the frequent demands made by the Trust and other agencies, and more