Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
This is an exciting opportunity for experienced and skilled practitioners with an interest in further developing their safeguarding experience within an established Safeguarding Service. The post is based at Wythenshawe Hospital; part-time applications will be considered.
To succeed, you will need excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills and the ability to critically analyze and record information in a concise and accurate manner. You must be able to work comfortably under pressure and adapt to prioritizing demands often within tight deadlines. You will be supported to further your professional knowledge and skills within this specialized area.
We require a highly motivated, committed, and flexible practitioner to work with health and multi-agency colleagues to ensure the provision of safe and effective services to safeguard vulnerable children across the City of Manchester and all children accessing MFT Hospital Services.
We are looking for a Registered Nurse who is educated to degree level or working towards a degree with experience in the field of Children's Safeguarding. You should have evidence of ongoing professional development and training undertaken in respect of safeguarding and must have recent experience of working directly with children, young people, and their families within an acute or community setting.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide individual consultation, guidance, and support to staff regarding safeguarding and child protection.
2. Ensure visibility within clinical settings.
3. Provide support to staff involved in the safeguarding processes, including Child Protection Conferences, Strategy Meetings, and other interagency/professional meetings.
4. Challenge colleagues, both internally and externally, where decision-making is not in line with local and national guidance or standards for best practice, ensuring that the process remains child-focused.
5. Provide advice and support to all practitioners and empower them to fulfill their safeguarding responsibilities.
6. Provide concise, accurate, and timely verbal and written reports and contribute to the quality assurance of written reports by practitioners in relation to formal child protection procedures and for legal purposes.
7. Ensure documentation relating to safeguarding is appropriate, accountable, and defensible.
8. Assist in establishing and maintaining collaborative links with Primary Health Care Teams, Community-Based Services, and Voluntary Organizations.
9. Work with Clinical Teams and Directorates to ensure appropriate arrangements for the dissemination and access to policies, practice guidance, and procedures in relation to safeguarding children.
10. Assist in the development of safeguarding information leaflets and proformas for specific use by children, parents/legal guardians/families.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford, and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate, so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organization to improve clinical quality, patient, and staff experience, operational effectiveness, and driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive, our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre and Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. We're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan, which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing, and shaping the future of our organization together.
Job 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 and Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that you're even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you'll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits, and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you'll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. 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. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We're looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
* Registered Nurse (or equivalent qualification and/or experience in relation to children).
* Minimum of 3 years post-registration experience.
* 1st Level Degree or working towards.
* Evidence of ongoing professional development and training undertaken in respect of safeguarding to minimum Level 3 (as per Working Together).
* Knowledge of national and local Safeguarding Policies, guidelines, and recommendations.
* Knowledge of relevant legislation relating to Safeguarding.
* Demonstrates knowledge relevant to patterns of abuse and neglect.
* Experience of safeguarding supervision.
* Experience of delivering training.
* 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.
* Critical thinking, reflection, and analysis to inform clinical assessment.
* Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.
* Basic IT skills, including email and Word.
* Ability to analyze and critically evaluate information and record it in a concise and accurate manner.
* Confidence to challenge appropriately in difficult situations.
* Ability to communicate across organizational boundaries.
* Ability to work under pressure, to prioritize, work flexibly, and meet tight deadlines.
* Completion of audits and reports within timescale.
* Specialist Practitioner Public Health.
* Recognized teaching/mentoring qualification.
* Qualification in safeguarding supervision.
* Accredited training qualification.
* Experience of policy development and implementation.
* IT skills relating to PowerPoint and Excel.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
£37,338 to £44,962 a year Per Annum, (Pro Rata)
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