This Designated Nurse for safeguarding children leads safeguarding and looked-after children's health across the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICBs. The work centres on strategic leadership, commissioning standards for safeguarding services and statutory duties shared with local authorities. The post is accountable to the Head of Quality, Safety and Improvement, carries an on-call rota for senior grades and supports peer Designated Nurses. Fit turns on current NMC or allied health professional registration and senior leadership experience in children's safeguarding.
What the job involves
- Lead on safeguarding children and promoting their welfare across the cluster ICBs
- Act as ICB Designated Nurse for safeguarding children under Working Together to Safeguard Children 2026 and the looked-after children health guidance of 2015
- Provide strategic, professional leadership and specialist advice on safeguarding, child death and looked-after children's health to governing bodies and professionals
- Develop and implement the ICB safeguarding vision and strategic plans
- Ensure robust safeguarding arrangements in all commissioned services, including primary, community and independent care
- Provide a framework for commissioning high-quality, evidence-based safeguarding, looked-after children and child death services
- Advise boards and multi-agency partnerships, including MASH, CDOP and the Child Sexual Abuse Forum, and work with local authorities on statutory duties
- Ensure safeguarding is central to service planning and delivery across the health economy
- Lead and advise on training strategies so health professionals meet child safeguarding requirements
- Set up communication and information-sharing processes that support multidisciplinary and interagency working
- Support peer Designated Nurses when required
- Maintain a visible presence in the ICB and take on any further delegated authority
Qualifications
- Master's level education in a relevant subject, or equivalent experience at a similar level in a specialist area
- Evidence of post-qualifying and continuing professional development
Registration & licences
- Current, valid NMC registration as Registered Nurse or Midwife, or current professional registration as an allied health professional
Experience
- At least five years in a senior nurse leadership role, with proven and significant leadership experience
- At least two years in children's safeguarding or a closely related area
- Leading children's safeguarding within the NHS, including safeguarding aspects of NHS contracts
- Strategic planning with NHS and partner organisations
- Collecting, analysing and reporting data to board committee level, including regular comprehensive performance reports
- Safeguarding policy development, service and quality reviews, and high-level investigations or external reviews
Skills & knowledge
- Communicating key messages to internal and external stakeholders, some at very senior level
- Presenting complex concepts clearly and using informed persuasion to influence others
- Managing staff and budgets directly, and delivering results through others without line authority
- Understanding of the aims of current healthcare policy and its implications for engagement
- Detailed knowledge of the Equality Acts and Public Sector Equality Duty, including equality reporting
- Embedding equality, diversity and inclusion at strategic level, including impact assessments and reporting key equality outcomes to executives
Other
- Experience of working in challenging environments and handling complaints under NHS complaints legislation
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The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
