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Specialist Nurse for Safeguarding Children
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated practitioner to join the South Gloucestershire Children's Safeguarding team, as a Band 7 Specialist Nurse for Safeguarding Children.
This opportunity has risen due to the team expanding to support the Social care reforms and the introduction of MACPT. This is a varied role, which includes, offering safeguarding supervision and support, delivering integrated Safeguarding training as well as involvement in Child Protection strategies and contribution to MASH, MACPT, MARAC. We work in partnership with Sirona practitioners, supporting them to provide a safeguarding service to the children, young people, and families they work with.
If you are a highly motivated individual who enjoys a fast paced environment and is passionate about safeguarding babies, children and young people we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
- To facilitate and embed reflective and restorative supervision to all staff and create a culture where practitioners know how to safeguard and protect children.
- To provide line management, supervision and support to team members e.g. ensuring 1:1s, PDR and staff well-being.
- Actively participate within multiagency safeguarding processes such as MARAC/MASH and MACPT
- To participate as a Sirona Health Representative within child protection strategy discussions in line with the agreed delegated framework
- To participate and contribute to complex Strategy discussion in relation to exploitation
- To represent Sirona care and health at any multi-agency strategic groups as appropriate. This may include quality assurance or themed sub-groups for the local multi agency safeguarding arrangements.
- To compile, contribute and oversee the development of chronologies related to existing child review procedures such as Rapid Reviews, Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews
- To contribute to the development, delivery and facilitation of the Sirona Safeguarding Training Plan
- To adopt a Think Family approach to all aspects of safeguarding work and facilitate the embedding of this approach into organisation culture.
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We are Sirona care & health - England's largest provider of Adult's and Children's Community Services and we'd love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.
Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days' annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme - just a glimpse of the benefits you'll receive.
We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation.
We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.
Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different - we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.
Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find attached to this vacancy.
Details
Date posted
21 September 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515 a year
per annum, pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time,
Flexible working
Reference number
083-8266614-SL
Job locations
Sirona care & health HQ
Badminton Road
Yate
BS37 5AF
United Kingdom
Job Description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position.
Please note, we cannot offer a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role. If you currently require a visa to work in the UK, there must be a minimum of 14 months remaining until the expiry date. If you do not disclose your expiry date within your application, it may not be considered. Please only provide the expiry date and not your share code within your application.
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Person Specification
Essential
Skills, Experience and Knowledge
- Experience of line management or experience in a coordinator role
- Experience working with children and families where child safeguarding has been a significant feature
- Experience of team working and the factors that make teamwork effective together with knowledge of primary care services
- Experience of developing and /or delivering training/presentations
- Experience of inter-agency partnership working
- Recent experience of engagement with the child protection supervision process
Qualifications and Training
- Registered Sick Children's Nurse / Registered General Nurse / Midwife or School Health Nurse
- Educated to degree level
- Evidence of continuing professional development related to child protection through attendance at short courses
- Ability to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Enhanced DBS disclosure
Desirable
- Experience of Midwifery or sexual health
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse
- Supervision Qualification
- Teaching or Training Qualification e.g. ENB 998 /997, City & Guilds / experience of developing / delivering training to professional groups
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Sirona care & health CIC
Address
Sirona care & health HQ
Badminton Road
Yate
BS37 5AF
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.sirona-cic.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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