We have an exciting opportunity for a full time, Band 7 Children and Young Person's Safeguarding Nurse to join the safeguarding team based at Broomfield Hospital.
The safeguarding nurse will support the Safeguarding Associate Director, the Named Nurse and the Named Midwife for Safeguarding Children to fulfil MSEFT responsibilities as set out in the Working Together to Safeguard Children document. The Post Holder will use expert knowledge to provide specialist advice to staff, peers, other professionals, and multi-agency partners on all aspects of safeguarding children and unborn babies.
The Children and Young Person's Safeguarding Nurse will provide support and supervision to all staff on issues relating to the safeguarding of children and unborn babies and to will provide a role model for safe, competent and professional practice in relation to the safeguarding of children.
You will assist in the planning process and will deliver training for staff in all aspects of children’s safeguarding and will participate in the development and delivery of a training strategy.
You will participate in policy development across all aspects of safeguarding children and will assist with the implementation into practice of all relevant national and local safeguarding recommendations and guidance.
The Children and Young Person's Safeguarding Nurse will work with MSE staff and external partners to ensure that the wellbeing of children and unborn babies is safeguarded.
The Children and Young Person's Safeguarding Nurse will provide operational management of cases involving any child or young person who is an inpatient on one of our 3 hospital sites where there are child protection concerns in order to ensure effective multidisciplinary and interagency risk assessment, decision making and development of safeguarding plans and actions.
With a workforce of approximately 15,000 staff, we can now do more and go further in delivering health services to our local communities.
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
Patients will experience improved care as well as fewer delays and cancellations. We are able to provide more once-in-a-lifetime specialist care region-wide. With our new trust size will come more opportunities for development, research, networking and innovation.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.
Please see the Job Description and Personal Specification attached. If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.
The post is site specific however, MSE covers a wide footprint area therefore the successful candidate's needs to be willing to travel to other sites on an occasional basis.
The hours of work for this role are 09:00 to 17:00
We look forward to your application.
This advert closes on Friday 7 Mar 2025