Employer: NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Cunard Building
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 14/02/2025 23:59
Designated Nurse Safeguarding Children
NHS AfC: Band 8b
An exciting opportunity has arisen to be part of the changing shape of NHS commissioning in Cheshire and Merseyside. Our current organisational structure supports effective working both locally and across Cheshire and Merseyside as we develop as an Integrated Care System.
The population of Cheshire and Merseyside is diverse and growing and we are keen to see that diversity recognised within our own workforce. As an employer we seek to open opportunities for our staff to gain new skills, knowledge, and develop careers in health and care.
We welcome students, staff, people of all races, religions, genders, sexual orientation, physical abilities, backgrounds, and philosophies and those who are accepting of others. Our goal is to support all of our workforce in their work; if you believe you can bring your skills and experiences and an open-minded approach into our fast-paced and dynamic organisation, we are committed to providing a positive and supportive experience for all of our staff.
Job overview
The Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children provides safeguarding expertise and leadership throughout health and multi-agency partnerships across the Liverpool geographical location and wider ICB. The role is pivotal to complex case management, improved partnership working, strategic planning, quality assurance, and performance monitoring.
The role of the Designated Nurse Safeguarding Children is to continually ensure improvement in safeguarding arrangements across the health economy in partnership with a range of agencies and services across Cheshire and Merseyside. This role encompasses enabling Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board to ensure they comply with the statutory guidance for safeguarding children. Working with the other Designated and Named Professionals across Cheshire and Merseyside, you will take forward the safeguarding agenda with a focus on evidencing improved outcomes for children and continual improvement to practice. It also involves working within the Local Safeguarding Children Partnerships and Child Death Overview Panels to ensure that children are safeguarded.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be required to:
1. Communicate and provide highly complex safeguarding children information across the health economy to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
2. Present highly complex information about projects, initiatives, and services to a wide range of stakeholders in a formal setting such as the Local Safeguarding Children Partnership and Child Death Overview Panel.
3. Commit to working and engaging constructively with NHS Commissioned providers, health services, and other key stakeholders on a range of potentially contentious issues.
4. Nurture key relationships and maintain networks both within the NHS and other networks such as the Safeguarding Children Partnerships and Child Death Overview Panels internally and externally, including national networks.
5. Lead and coordinate the safeguarding children response to external and internal inspections such as: Ofsted, CQC, Peer reviews, etc.
6. Support collaborative working across health services, underpinned by appropriate pathways and policies to safeguard children.
7. Assist with media management, especially in cases of local safeguarding issues generating media interest and where necessary liaise with media management of other agencies and partnerships to ensure a consistent media approach.
Working for our organisation
Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System (ICS) is a highly complex organisation serving a population of over 2.5 million people across 9 Places, 17 NHS Provider organisations, and 51 PCNs, plus North West Ambulance service as well as third sector and voluntary organisations.
From a demographic perspective, there are some real challenges within Cheshire and Merseyside. 33% of the population of Cheshire and Merseyside live in the most deprived 20% of neighbourhoods in England. In addition, the population overall suffers from some of the poorest health outcomes in England. The postholder will be based in the geographical location of Liverpool. You will work closely with the Designated Nurses for Safeguarding Children, Designated Nurses for Children in Care, and the Designated Professionals for Safeguarding Adults across NHS Cheshire and Merseyside as part of a wider enthusiastic and dedicated safeguarding team. The postholder will provide a key leadership role for Safeguarding Children across the Health Economy and Safeguarding Partnership and will be essential in ensuring that the Integrated Care Board (ICB) fulfills their statutory duties for Safeguarding Children.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Provide advice to ensure that the range of services commissioned by the Integrated Care Board take account of the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
2. Work closely with senior leadership teams within the Integrated Care Board to provide assurance to the Integrated Care Board that NHS commissioned, and other health services are discharging their safeguarding responsibilities effectively.
3. Work closely with the other Designated nurses and Named professionals in supporting all activities necessary to ensure that Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board and health service providers within and across the health economy meet their responsibilities in safeguarding children and have the capacity to improve.
4. Support health services, to develop robust systems and processes to safeguard children effectively.
5. Be a member of the Safeguarding Children Partnership and Child Death Overview Panels providing professional advice on health issues.
6. Represent at Safeguarding Children Partnerships and Child Death Overview Panels subgroups, chairing groups and participate in statutory reviews.
7. Consult on single and multi-agency safeguarding training for all health personnel and support development of the Integrated Care Board training needs analysis and strategy.
8. To advise partner agencies regarding health issues, including policy as well as individual case difficulties.
9. To line manage and supervise staff within the Safeguarding Children service as appropriate.
10. Advice on the need and appropriate models for appropriate safeguarding supervision at all levels within NHS commissioned and other health services.
11. Provide a model of supervision for Named Professionals.
12. Receive supervision from an appropriate source.
13. Ensure all staff have relevant Personal Development Plans, knowledge and skills framework outlines, according to the KSF, and use information from staff’s PDRs to ensure future training and service needs are supported.
14. Forge close positive working relationships, in order to support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHS objectives.
15. Analyze, interpret and present data to highlight issues, risks and support decision making.
16. Liaise with local education providers to ensure that there is an appropriate safeguarding children content within pre-registration/undergraduate/postgraduate training programmes and strengthen links.
17. To develop an Integrated Care Board training needs analysis and an implementation plan and support the development of a system to monitor uptake.
18. Quality assure training needs analyses and implementation plans of NHS commissioned providers to ensure they meet current practice standards.
19. Play an active part in the planning of multi-agency training through Safeguarding Children Partnerships and Child Death Overview Panels and other multi-agency strategic boards and partnerships.
20. To contribute to the Integrated Care Board commissioning plans for children and families to ensure that commissioned services take account of the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and that any relevant learning is incorporated into plans.
21. Provide advice on the monitoring of the safeguarding aspects of Integrated Care Board commissioned contracts.
22. Will be responsible with the other designated nurses for ensuring that the health components of statutory procedures across the local authorities are reviewed and updated at appropriate intervals.
23. The designated nurse will have fully delegated responsibilities and be accountable to the Associate Director of Quality & Safety Improvement, Liverpool Place and responsible to the Head of Quality & Safety Improvement.
24. A strong working relationship with the C&M ICB Head of Safeguarding will be required.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Children's Nurse or Registered Community Public Health Nurse
* Completed specific post-registration training in safeguarding at Masters level or equivalent experience
* Relevant teaching qualification
Knowledge and Experience
* Knowledge of the NHS Reform agenda as it applies to safeguarding children
* Proven and significant leadership experience preferably in a safeguarding environment
* Significant management experience at a senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
* Proven board level experience of delivery and managing complex change and strategy development
* Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders
* Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders
Analytical skills
* Ability to analyse numerical and written data
* Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
**PLEASE NOTE**
Joining our inclusive and innovative team comes with a range of benefits including flexible & agile working arrangements, pension scheme, and generous annual leave allowance.
With our training schemes and support networks, you will be empowered to play a leading role in the future of healthcare, whatever your specialism or interest.
In return, we provide a supportive environment in which to learn and develop, with the opportunity to further your skills and career within an exciting and evolving environment. As a member of NHS staff, you will receive various discounts from a host of restaurants and high-street stores.
In the event of exceptionally high levels of response, we reserve the right to close the post before the date stated above in order to prevent the number of applications received being unmanageable. You are advised to submit your completed application form as soon as possible to have the best chance of being considered.
Additional information relating to the role can be found in the Job Description below. Please note that candidates will be shortlisted against the criteria outlined within the Person Specification (also below), therefore, to avoid disappointment please ensure you meet the requirements of the role before applying and that you are able to demonstrate these requirements throughout your application form.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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