Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children
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Job Overview
An exciting secondment opportunity has arisen for a part-time Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children in Camden. This post will have responsibility to ensure high-quality safeguarding children practice is delivered across our Camden and Inner London services. This is an exciting role working alongside other Named Professionals who deliver our Safeguarding Children agenda across the Trust.
We are seeking an experienced and motivated safeguarding child practitioner who can provide expert safeguarding children advice, supervision, training, and support to our services. This is a full-time role which will require a dynamic and responsive practitioner. You will require a high level of safeguarding children experience to meet the requirements of this role.
Cost allowances (HCAS) will be at the Inner London rate. Whilst the role is based in Camden, travel across other sites will be required.
If you are someone with a passion for ensuring the safeguarding needs of all children, this could be the job for you. You will be well supported within the role by the Head of Safeguarding Children, as well as benefitting from other Named Professionals within the Trust.
Main Duties of the Job
- To provide expert safeguarding children advice and strategic leadership within Camden and Inner London services. There may be a need to support Trust-wide safeguarding services when needed/cover is required.
- To provide safeguarding children professional advice, education, and training to maintain clinical excellence for all staff who have direct and indirect involvement with children and their carers. In addition, to provide support (on issues regarding health) to all staff in various agencies who work with children and their carers.
- To work closely/collaborate with CNWL Named Professionals/Named Doctors and Safeguarding Children Advisors to ensure that high-quality evidence-based and effective health services are delivered to safeguard children.
- To work in collaboration with Safeguarding Adult/Mental Capacity Act specialists to promote Think Family and promote the voice of the person within health service delivery.
- To provide information and assurance, to the Designated Nurses, in relation to the effectiveness of commissioned services that will improve the safety, health, and wellbeing of children.
- Contribute to the work of the local Safeguarding Children Partnership (SCP) and undertake any health contribution, as required.
- To provide safeguarding children supervision and training to staff groups; raising any concerns with compliance to relevant managers/Director of Nursing/Head of Safeguarding Children.
Working for Our Organisation
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
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Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
- To lead in implementing Government and local guidance to improve the safety, health, and well-being of vulnerable children.
- To actively contribute to the local Safeguarding Children Partnership, ensuring CNWL meets its statutory responsibilities.
- To work in partnership with Designated Nurses and Doctors for Safeguarding Children to ensure there is a consistent and coordinated approach to practice involving the support to vulnerable children and their families.
- To work in partnership with the Named Professionals to enable staff to deliver services to vulnerable children in a coordinated and collaborative manner translating procedures and guidelines into practice.
- To contribute to the work of the CNWL Safeguarding Team to develop strategy, policy, and procedures, including organisational development and clinical competencies.
- To ensure that clinical governance principles are an integral part of all safeguarding children’s arrangements.
- To collect data and present reports, to managers on the implications for service and planning and to update Designated Professionals as relevant.
- To provide operational and strategic leadership, advanced knowledge and skills, expert advice, and support on safeguarding issues to managers, team leaders, practitioners, and other staff across multi-agency partners.
- To provide clinical leadership, expert advice, and support where parental vulnerabilities may impact children, promoting a Think Family approach to staff to assist with their contribution to safeguarding plans.
- Support escalation pathways and threshold decisions to safeguard children.
- To contribute to the safeguarding children annual report, priorities, and work plan for the Board, evaluating the delivery and effectiveness to safeguard children.
- To take the lead on key safeguarding children areas of development across the Trust, including the safeguarding annual priorities.
- To deliver high-quality and effective safeguarding children supervision and ensure it is implemented (as per Trust Safeguarding Children guidelines) and monitored across services.
- To seek assurance and support practitioners to attend case conferences, strategy meetings, and professionals’ meetings, thus enabling them to participate in the decision-making process.
- To promote and develop collaborative interagency working on all issues relating to safeguarding children, particularly domestic abuse.
- To coordinate the provision of safeguarding children training across the Trust and monitor its effectiveness.
- To have excellent knowledge of local/national policies and procedures including those across other agencies that are relevant to health care provision for vulnerable children.
- To consider the findings of relevant published research studies and serious case/child safeguarding practice reviews and summarise the key findings/lessons learnt for distribution to relevant staff, and other agencies, as appropriate.
- To lead the Camden Safeguarding Children Team with line management responsibilities including MASH
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Person Specification
Qualifications and Experience
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- Educated to degree level
- Significant experience working in a relevant community or specialist area
- Experience of Safeguarding Advisor post
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development with relevant further safeguarding children training.
- Involvement in planning and delivery of safeguarding children training packages.
- Experience of staff management/line management
- Significant experience of safeguarding children work
- Have attended a relevant safeguarding supervision course
- Experience in providing safeguarding supervision to health/social care professionals (1:1 and group)
- To have complete specific post-registration training in Safeguarding children
Desirable criteria
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse qualification
- Demonstrable experience of teaching others/training qualification
- Educated or working towards Master’s level of expert practice.
Knowledge/Skills
Essential criteria
- Detailed knowledge of key statutory responsibilities, guidance, and national policy regarding Children’s Services, vulnerable children, and Safeguarding
- Experience in undertaking/supervising and writing clinical audits
- Knowledge of developing guidelines, policy, and procedures
- Knowledge and extensive experience of multi-agency and multi-professional working
- Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
- Ability to be able to present information effectively in a format which is easily understood
- Evidence of working with senior managers and clinicians
- Leadership and change management skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supporting court statements and legal process documentation
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