Main area Safeguarding
Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract Permanent
Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday, multiple site working)
Job ref 339-DJF5374
Site Southmead Hospital
Town Bristol
Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 26/01/2025 23:59
Job overview
We are looking for an exceptional and innovative Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children who will help us further develop our integrated safeguarding service and fulfil our statutory requirements as set out in Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023) and the Intercollegiate Document for the roles and competencies for healthcare staff (2019).
Using safeguarding expertise and highly developed skills you will work in partnership with the safeguarding senior leadership team, specialist practitioners and the other safeguarding named professionals, taking responsibility for children’s safeguarding practice ensuring that structures, systems, policies, and processes are in place and effective across the Trust.
Main duties of the job
1. The post holder will provide organisational safeguarding expertise, through the provision of highly specialised assessment, analysis, advice, and support.
2. They are expected to be highly visible and accessible to colleagues across the Trust providing training, supervision, and oversight of complex cases.
3. The post holder will liaise internally with all wards/departments, and externally with Children’s Social Care teams, Local Safeguarding Children Partnerships, Integrated Care Boards, safeguarding colleagues in University Hospitals Bristol and Weston (UHBW), and other agencies within BNSSG, to lead on the development of safeguarding children practice.
4. The post holder will work in partnership with the NBT Named Doctors, Named Midwife for Safeguarding and Named Professional for Adult Safeguarding to lead an agreed portfolio of roles.
5. Be a regular presence to areas of the trust where children are seen and treated or where high risk parental presentations occur including but not limited to ED, ICU, NICU, Outpatient services and imaging, substance misuse teams and trauma and neurological wards.
Person specification
Education/Training/Qualifications
* NMC registration as a Children’s Nurse OR NMC registered as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (HV/SHN)
* Completed post-registration training safeguarding children
* Teaching qualification
Work Experience
* Be currently practising in the field of safeguarding at a senior level with extensive experience of child safeguarding and protection roles
* Demonstrable experience of supporting staff to recognise, assess and refer safeguarding children concerns
* Experience of multiagency and multiprofessional working within statutory safeguarding frameworks
* Experience of providing line management and development of staff
* Experience of service leadership
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
* Expert level knowledge of statutory frameworks relating to child safeguarding and protection including Children in Care
* Highly articulate with advanced written and verbal communication skills
* Ability to interpret policy, research and wider information into training and supervision content that supports improving practice in health settings
* Teaching and presentation skills
* Ability to challenge practice with a focus on improving outcomes for children and quality improvement of service
Personal Qualities/Special Circumstances
* Able to work with interruptions and the need to re-prioritise workload
* Able to work alongside team members and trust wide colleagues to develop safeguarding practice in others
* Able to travel within the working day to attend external meetings
* Actively promotes well being and support recognising the impact of child safeguarding on colleagues and self
If you apply for this vacancy and have not received a communication from North Bristol NHS Trust within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.
The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.
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.
If you have problems applying, contact
Address Recruitment Operations
North Bristol NHS Trust
Bristol
Telephone 0117 41 41151
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