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Senior Specialist Nurse - Complex Safeguarding
NHS AfC: Band 7
Main area: Safeguarding Children - Manchester Community Safeguarding Team
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: 6 months (Fixed Term)
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week (3 days per week)
Job ref: 349-COR-6929900*
Site: Manchester Community Safeguarding Team - Rusholme Health Centre
Town: Manchester
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum, Pro Rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 17/02/2025 23:59
Job overview
An exciting fixed term 6 month contract opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 6 or Band 7 practitioner to develop their safeguarding portfolio in Complex Safeguarding. The post holder will be based in the multi-agency Complex Safeguarding Hub and will work alongside and support the Trafford Senior Specialist Nurse Complex Safeguarding.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work jointly across the Trust’s safeguarding service and the locality complex safeguarding team and be expected to provide knowledge and expertise as a safeguarding health practitioner for complex safeguarding. They will support positive health outcomes for children and young people and demonstrate a sound understanding of the issues relating to identification, assessment, management, and review of safeguarding vulnerable children and families. They will monitor and improve standards of care through safeguarding leadership, supervision, audit, evidence-based practice, training, and the provision of safeguarding advice and support.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Children’s Nurse / Community Public Health Practitioner
* Evidence of ongoing professional development and training undertaken in respect of safeguarding to minimum Level 3 (as per Intercollegiate Document)
* Masters degree or working towards
* Recognised teaching/ mentoring qualification
Knowledge & Experience
* Knowledge of national and local safeguarding policies, guidelines and recommendations.
* Knowledge of relevant legislation relating to safeguarding children.
* Demonstrates knowledge relevant to patterns of abuse and neglect.
* Experience of safeguarding supervision.
* Experience of multi-agency child protection work.
* Experience of delivering training.
* Experience of policy development and implementation.
* Awareness of issues affecting ethnic minority families and other socially excluded groups.
* Working knowledge of children’s health and development and the nature and impact of child maltreatment.
* Qualification in safeguarding supervision.
* Accredited training qualification.
Skills
* Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
* IT skills, including email, word and data collection.
* Ability to analyse, critically evaluate information and record in a concise and accurate manner.
* Confidence to challenge appropriately in difficult situations.
* Ability to communicate across organisational boundaries.
* Ability to work under pressure, to prioritise, work flexibly and to tight deadlines.
* Completion of audits and reports within timescale.
* IT skills relating to Power Point, Excel.
Other
* Satisfactory enhanced DBS check.
* Credible, decisive and of high personal and professional integrity.
* Car driver and owner, willing to travel within the remit of the service delivery areas.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Name: Clare McNicholls
Job title: Named Nurse Safeguarding Children
Email address: clare.mcnicholls@mft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0161 861 2250
Please contact one of the Named Nurses Safeguarding Children on the Manchester Community Safeguarding Team on tel. 0161 861 2250.
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