Overview
Specialist Nurse for Safeguarding Children – County Hall, Bythesea Road, Trowbridge, Wiltshire
Job Introduction
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated and experienced Band 7 Specialist Nurse for Safeguarding to join our friendly and welcoming Safeguarding Team in BSW.
You will work as part of the BSW Safeguarding Team to support the Named Nurses for Safeguarding Children for BSW Children’s Community Services in developing an integrated approach to safeguarding children.
You will work closely with the Named Nurses for Safeguarding Children in providing specialist knowledge and advice to health professionals.
This is a highly fulfilling and rewarding role as you will promote effective safeguarding practice by enabling practitioners to identify families who are/may be having difficulty in meeting their child care responsibilities and ensuring that these families are clinically managed through a high standard of evidence based practice and safeguarding children supervision.
The ability and willingness to travel to support this role is required and therefore a valid UK driving licence and willingness to travel across the BSW patch is essential.
Main Responsibility
- To support the promotion of good professional practice.
- To communicate the Safeguarding Children Policy and Procedures to all staff ensuring that these are implemented in practice
- To support HCRG Care Group staff with legal aspects of their roles, regarding court statements, attending court, police requests, CAFCAS, liaising as required with legal services both internal and external.
- To support operational management with sound professional advice in order to ensure delivery of safe and effective safeguarding practice.
- The post holder will establish links with those involved in the care of children and families.
- Establish effective communication and collaboration with the local authority, police, education and other agencies involved in Child Protection and Safeguarding Children.
- To support the development of practice to promote and safeguard the welfare of children ensuring that it is embedded within all services.
- To support the objectives of the organisation and contribute to developing an operational frame- work for Safeguarding Children and Child Protection.
- To provide professional advice to HCRG Care Group on the impact of policy, guidance and legislation ensuring that the evidence base for services is robust.
- To contribute to ensuring that children are safeguarded from harm and that the service is applied to a high standard consistently across BSW.
- Provide advice and support to front line clinicians to ensure that high standards of practice in Safe- guarding and child protection are maintained and continuously improved.
- Contribute to internal and Multiagency case reviews ensuring that action plans are completed and followed through.
For a full list of role responsibilities please refer to attached job description.
The Ideal Candidate
Essential:
- Registered Nurse or Registered Midwife with Community experience
- Educated to Master’s Degree Level or equivalent professional qualification or experiential learning.
- Knowledge of National and Local Strategies
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries.
- Excellent negotiation and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to build effective working relationships – advisory and facilitative.
- Good organizational skills and able to work to deadlines.
- Ability to work under pressure and remain calm.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Self-awareness.
- Ability to drive.
- IT literate.
- Ability to organize own work and use initiative.
- Report writing.
- Self-motivated, visionary and enthusiastic.
- Flexible and adaptable.
- Aware of own stress and coping strategies
- Significant experience as a Community Health Practitioner working with child protection cases.
- Minimum of 5 years post registration experience with minimum of 3 years at senior level of band 6 or above families in the community
- Safeguarding Children Training Level 3
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Experience of Clinical Supervision, as a provider or recipient. Have a theoretical understanding of principles of supervision.
- Experience of managing complex child protection cases
- Experience of attending case conferences, strategies meetings
- Experience of developing relationships with external agencies and organisation.
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries within health, those of our multiagency partners and the voluntary sector
Package Description
As a Specialist Nurse for Safeguarding Children, you’ll be part of our valued team within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 7 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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