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Main duties of the job
We are looking to recruit a NMC registered Specialist Nurse/Health Practitioner, Safeguarding Children, to work within the East Sussex MASH in Eastbourne. The post holder will work within the multi-agency integrated team, gathering, collating and sharing health information to assist the assessment of notifications and referrals relating to children aged 0-18 years, which are received by the Local Authority front door and processed in the MASH.
The successful candidate will have sound knowledge and experience of safeguarding children practice from unborn to 18th birthday. They also need to be able to work in complex and challenging environments, manage their work without continual on-site line management, and be prepared to cross-cover the other MASH sites. The successful candidate will have excellent verbal, written communication and analytical skills to provide safeguarding advice and contribute to decision making within the MASH. They will be able to develop robust and positive relationships between multi-agency partners and will need to demonstrate emotional resilience.
Interviews will take place in person at Sackville House, Lewes on 22nd January 2025. Please be advised that this position will require an Enhanced check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If you would like to discuss the role further, please contact Fiona Cassidy on 07789370859 or via fiona.cassidy1@nhs.net
About us
NHS Sussex ICB are committed to enabling team members to work in an agile and flexible way. We adopt a flexible first approach to working patterns. We empower our people to work where, when, and how they choose with minimum constraints to support their wellbeing to sustain good work life balance and to optimise performance and delivery.
We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Agile working is not just related to working from different locations or at different times. It is about effectively utilising technology to improve work practices and to work differently to increase our overall effectiveness to improve health outcomes for our population.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please contact the Recruitment Team at scw.peopleresource@nhs.net to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
NHS Sussex has committed to achieving Net Zero Carbon emissions by 2045. As a member of staff you will be encouraged and supported to implement new ways of working that will help us achieve that goal.
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work as part of a dynamic multi-agency integrated team assessing notifications and referrals regarding children aged 0-18 that are received by the Multi-agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH). The MASH process includes searching for and collating relevant health information from a range of NHS providers both locally and further afield. With due regard to patient confidentiality, the MASH professional needs to interpret, analyse and share the information that is necessary to safeguard and/or promote the welfare of a child. The MASH has been designed to facilitate information gathering and sharing within a fire-walled environment.
The Local Authority holds the statutory responsibility for the management of notifications and referrals, but the decision and planning required to inform the outcome of the notification or referral is made by the integrated MASH team. This type of multi-agency cooperation is a statutory duty of all professionals delivering care to children and families.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
* Professional clinical knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by post graduate diploma specialist safeguarding training, experience, short courses plus further specialist training to masters equivalent level.
* Member of clinical professional body (RGN/RN/RSCN/Midwife on NMC register).
* Evidence of continued professional development.
Experience
* Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
* Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments.
* Experience of managing risks and reporting.
* Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes.
* Understanding of the public sector.
* Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment.
* Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g., monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement.
* Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
Skills and Capabilities
* Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium, and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
* Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
* Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders on clinical specialism.
* Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
* Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
* Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
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.
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