Named Nurse Safeguarding Children

This position provides an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, motivated and creative nurse to lead on delivering the safeguarding agenda for Children and Young People within the Trust.

An opportunity has arisen within the South Tees Safeguarding team to lead the Safeguarding Children's team to ensure the organisation meets its safeguarding responsibilities with regard to children, young people and their families.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone considering a new challenge within a multi-agency setting offering advice, guidance, and support in relation to often complex, sensitive and emotive safeguarding concerns and delivering the safeguarding agenda for Children and Young People within the Trust.

Successful candidate must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will ensure effective relationships and integrated working with the wider safeguarding team (adults, MCA, learning disabilities, domestic abuse) and work across acute services and within a multi-agency arena. They will provide advice and support to organisation staff on the safeguarding issues affecting the health and wellbeing of children and young people. The post holder will be required to work in partnership with other agencies providing health advice and support to multi-agency partners as well as deputise for the Assistant Director of Nursing- Safeguarding, MCA/DoLs, Mental Health Legislation, Learning Disabilities and Autism.

About us

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:

1. Your Leadership Impact
2. Leading your Team to Success
3. Leading Into the Future
4. Service Improvement for Beginners
5. Developing your Service Improvement Skills
6. Lean Practitioner

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

1. Explore leadership within the NHS
2. Promote Trust values and behaviours
3. Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
4. Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Knowledge and understanding of child care law, national and local policies and procedures, interagency roles and responsibilities, theoretical framework, patterns/indicators of abuse
• Ability to assist in the planning, delivery, and evaluation of Safeguarding Children training at all levels of the organization
• Use of research, audit and serious case review recommendations to inform and improve practice
• Ability to apply knowledge of national and local Safeguarding Children strategies, research and audit in the development of Safeguarding Children services
• Leadership and communication skills which promote a credible, accessible and approachable service which empowers staff. Ability to manage change. IT literate. Audit Skills

Desirable

• Research skills

Qualifications & Training

Essential

• Registered first level nurse
• Post-basic qualification in Health Visiting/School Nursing/Children's nursing with extensive clinical experience
• Relevant Master's degree or working towards
• Post-basic qualification in adult education
• Undertaken formal training as safeguarding supervisor

Desirable

• Leadership training
• Training in Domestic Violence

Experience

Essential

• Able to demonstrate extensive experience of Safeguarding Children / Child in Need casework
• Experience in inter-agency working
• Experience with Serious Case Reviews/Learning reviews
• Extensive experience in delivering Safeguarding Children Supervision

Employer details

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The James Cook University Hospital
Marton Road
Middlesbrough
TS4 3BW

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