This is a specialist role within the West Sussex Safeguarding Team, which offers you a unique opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge within safeguarding and multi-agency working. As a Specialist Children’s Safeguarding Nurse you will support professionals working within the trust to improve their own safeguarding knowledge and skills through training, supervision, support and guidance. You will work within a friendly, dynamic team alongside other Specialist Nurses and supported by Named Nurses.
To be able to undertake this role you will need to be an experienced Nurse with significant safeguarding knowledge and experience which you can draw upon when supporting others. We are often supporting professionals who are working with vulnerable families whose lives are chaotic and complicated, this requires excellent communication skills to ensure that the child remains the focus of any safeguarding discussion.
We offer hybrid working, and have a choice of bases to work from in Bognor Regis, Lancing and Hassocks
As a Specialist Children’s Safeguarding Nurse within Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust you will:
• Provide highly specialist advice and support through the safeguarding children advice line.
• Provide safeguarding supervision to staff within the Trust who work with children and young people.
• Plan, write and deliver level 3 safeguarding children training across the trust to a range of professionals. Some of this maybe bespoke and team focused.
• You will attend multi-agency meetings including multi agency risk assessment conferences (MARAC) sharing health information which is relevant and proportionate to the meeting being attended ensuring that information sharing policies are followed. This will require excellent research and analysis of health information/records to ensure that the information shared is accurate and relevant.
• You will read and process Police reports which will require IT skills and the use of SystmOne.
• You will support practitioners who have been requested to supply information for court, giving guidance on report writing, ensuring these are completed within the time specified by the court or requesting more time if little notice has been given.
Sussex Community Foundation NHS Trust is the largest provider of community healthcare services in Sussex, our teams help people to plan for and manage changes to their health, supporting patients and their families to live more independently. We employ around 5000 staff and provide community services to a population of 1.3 million people.
Each year our dedicated clinicians see adult or child patients more than 2.6 million times, caring for people from their earliest moments right up to the final stages of their life.
We develop and nurture our staff and recognise that they are our greatest asset.
We give them clear career pathways, support their wellbeing, recognise and value their diversity and provide them with the leadership, skills and knowledge they need to deliver the best care for our patients now and in the future.
We are a team which works across Sussex Community Foundation NHS Trust covering community services in West Sussex, Brighton and Hove and to a more limited extent East Sussex.
We are a friendly, supportive and enthusiastic team. We work hard to ensure that staff working within the Trust know how and when action needs to be taken to safeguard a child.
The Specialist Safeguarding Children’s nurses meet weekly within a staff huddle and make full use of Microsoft Teams to support each other throughout the day. The Named Nurses will offer guidance and support, they are knowledgeable and approachable.
The purpose of this role is to work with the West Sussex Children Safeguarding Team and partners across Sussex, to promote the wellbeing of children and respond to maltreatment in line with Working Together 2018, in order to put the child at the centre of safeguarding.
The post holder will demonstrate a systematic approach to the work of child protection, focusing on the impact on child health issues and the importance of multi-agency working.
The post holder will work within the team to contribute to support, supervision, training, advice and guidance for all SCFT staff in promoting the wellbeing of children. Respond effectively to cases where there are safeguarding concerns and support staff in legal procedures.
The post holder will be leading on different aspects of safeguarding practice and will have the opportunity to be initiative in developing and delivering practice both inside SCFT and with our partner agencies.
Working within a team to ensure all the Trust staff and corporate and strategic priorities are delivered for SCFT
The post holder will advise SCFT staff on their statutory and legislative duties for all aspects of Children Safeguarding as stipulated in primary legislation, government strategy, national, regional and local guidance
This advert closes on Friday 31 Jan 2025