A Vacancy at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
The Band 6 Safeguarding Children’s Nurse will play a vital role within the wider safeguarding team to support children and young people where there are safeguarding concerns.
This is a part-time position - 30 hours per week and is an excellent opportunity to develop your safeguarding skills and knowledge supported by a friendly dedicated and award-winning safeguarding team. The role requires a motivated, enthusiastic, and experienced Nurse with a passion for safeguarding and the ability to provide high quality advice, care and support to children and young people attending the organisation.
Ongoing professional development is encouraged, and you will have the ability to attend relevant courses that enhance your knowledge of various aspects of safeguarding relevant to your practice.
*Interviews to be held on 31/01/2025*
This role supports the safeguarding team across the acute organisation to provide improved accessibility to safeguarding support in all clinical areas.
The band 6 safeguarding children’s nurse/practitioner will be responsible for reviewing safeguarding referrals from all clinical areas and escalating high risk cases for further scrutiny by children’s services.
The band 6 children nurse/practitioner will support daily safeguarding ward rounds in specific clinical settings, weekly psychosocial meetings for staff, training updates for staffing groups, supporting children and young people across the organisation.
The band 6 children’s safeguarding nurse/practitioner will also contribute to multi professional meetings, attending child protection conferences and professional escalation meetings both internally and for partnership agencies.
The role will require the candidate to maintain a database of safeguarding supervision and training, alongside gathering data for clinical audits and assurance data.
The post holder should be confident, friendly, approachable, non-judgemental, organised, and pro-active in their approach to safeguarding.
Good IT and communication skills are required as well as a broad knowledge of local and national safeguarding policies and procedures.
The ability to provide advice and support on safeguarding children issues to staff and to escalate as appropriate to senior safeguarding staff is required.
With a new hospital planned for Watford and work underway to update theatres at St Albans City Hospital, this is an exciting time to join us.
We are building on the success of our award-winning virtual hospital and re-imaging models of care, working ever more closely with partners and making the most of advances in digital healthcare.
Staff wellbeing and development are a priority at our Trust, as is the role of innovation in improving clinical care, outcomes and patient experience.
Our vision is Excellent patient care, together and our values are to be empowered, compassionate, professional and inclusive. They capture an important balance across what we must all do as individuals and to support others.
At West Herts we offer a variety of flexible working options as we recognise the importance of a good work life balance and the ability to work flexibly.
We kindly invite you to consider submitting an application.
If you have a disability or long-term health condition and should you require support or guidance please contact westherts.recruitment@nhs.net
If you are a Service Leaver, Veteran, Military Reserve, Cadet Force Adult Volunteer, or partner/spouse of those serving please tick "Member of the Armed Forces Community" on the application form.
If you do not hear back within 3 weeks of your application, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
The post holder will work closely with the Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) for safeguarding, the Named Nurses, the organisation, and its workforce to ensure the organisation follows all statutory safeguarding guidance and improves the outcomes and promotes the welfare of adults, children, and families at risk of abuse and/or neglect.
Based within the safeguarding team, the post holder will support the safeguarding CNS, managing safeguarding cases across the organisation and contributing to the delivery of training, supervision, and general safeguarding activities.
The post holder will be part of an integrated safeguarding team adopting a ‘think family’ approach to safeguarding patients. On initial appointment, the safeguarding nurse will work with the safeguarding children clinical nurse specialists, drawing on previous experience and skills. Further training and development will be given.
This advert closes on Sunday 26 Jan 2025