Clinical Nurse Specialist - Safeguarding Children & Young People

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 job

As 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.

About us

At Imperial College Healthcare, you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

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 responsibilities

The 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 Specification

Education/Qualifications

• RN (Child) or RN and registered Health Visitor/Specialist Community Public Health Nurse with completion of child & family focus programme
• Educated to a degree level in a relevant subject area or evidence of equivalent
• RN with relevant safeguarding children experience
• Recognised teaching/assessing qualification

Experience

• Experience of working within an acute hospital setting with children, young people, and their families
• Experience of team working and liaison with other agencies
• Evidence of experience in safeguarding practice
• Experience and knowledge of quality, standard setting, and audit
• Sound experience in managing complaints and quality assurance
• Experience of multi-agency working
• Evidence of innovative practice that involves change, research, and/or audit
• Experience of providing supervision to staff

Skills/knowledge/abilities

• Evidence of undertaking a senior role working with children, young people, and families
• Detailed and thorough knowledge of current safeguarding legislation and guidelines
• Knowledge of quality, standard setting, and audit
• Demonstrable understanding of National and Local health strategies
• Proven ability to effectively manage change
• Good time management skills, with the ability to meet deadlines and work effectively under pressure
• Ability to prioritise clinical workload according to need and make decisions accordingly
• Articulate with advanced written and verbal communication skills and ability to write reports suitable for presentation to various audiences
• Sound IT skills (including email and office packages)
• Able to give safeguarding supervision
• Able to teach and ability to lone work

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This 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.