Specialist Nurse for Safeguarding Children

Overview

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 with a base at St Martins Hospital in Bath. 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 framework 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 Safeguarding and child protection are maintained and continuously improved
• Contribute to internal and Multiagency case reviews ensuring that action plans are completed and followed through

Benefits and rewards

• Band 7 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub with discounts on everyday purchases and cashback offers
• Access to wages as you earn them to help cover emergencies
• Support for mental and physical wellbeing, including resources for wellbeing, legal, debt and life management help, plus career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and continuing professional development through The Learning Enterprise
• Open, just culture with opportunities to contribute ideas and receive funding support for innovation
• Commitment to high clinical and quality standards with CQC ratings

Qualifications and experience

• 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 organisational 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 and IT literate
• Ability to organise 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 in families in the community
• Safeguarding Children Training Level 3
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Experience of Clinical Supervision, as a provider or recipient
• Experience of managing complex child protection cases
• Experience of attending case conferences and strategy meetings
• Experience of developing relationships with external agencies and organisations
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries within health, multiagency partners and the voluntary sector

From 11 November 21, as a result of new legislation, anyone over the age of 18 who enters a Care Home as part of their job must have had both doses of a COVID-19 vaccination or hold a valid medical exemption. As part of our pre-employment process we will therefore ask you to provide proof of your vaccination status via the NHS Covid Pass or a signed medical exemption form. Further details about the legislation can be found on the government website.

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006 by our Chief Executive Dr Vivienne McVey and like-minded colleagues, 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. From around 500 locations 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 a broad diversity of talent to apply. We reserve the right to cease any advertising prior to the published closing date for a role that receives a high number of applications. As a Disability Confident Committed company, we work in partnership with the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to make our business an inclusive place for all. HCRG Care Group is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across our services. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website\\\’s privacy policy.