Designated Doctor - Safeguarding Children

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust; Bradford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Designated Doctor - Safeguarding Children at a leading healthcare provider in Bradford. This role offers flexibility and the chance to work strategically across health systems, ensuring compliance with safeguarding legislation while providing expert advice and leadership. Ideal for experienced professionals looking to make a significant impact in child safeguarding.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Health and wellbeing support packages

Development and learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience as a Designated Doctor or Consultant Paediatrician.
• Proven leadership skills in safeguarding.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert leadership and advice on safeguarding children.
• Work with health commissioners and multi-agency partnerships.

Skills

Leadership

Safeguarding

Education

Level 5 CP training

Level 3-4 training

Job description

Designated Doctor - Safeguarding Children

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Due to the planned reduction of hours of the current post holder towards retirement, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a stand-alone post of Designated Doctor: Safeguarding Children 4 PAs / week at Bradford PLACE and part of the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (WY ICB).

There is flexibility in the post. The preference is for an experienced Designated Doctor with Level 5 CP training and proven leadership skills to work alongside the current postholder. Applications would also be welcomed from enthusiastic Consultant Paediatricians with level 3-4 training who would like to develop into the role, with support and mentoring from the current Designated Dr who is hosted in Bradford.

Two of the sessions for this post have come from a post previously hosted in Airedale. This post would provide a closer link with Airedale/ North Yorkshire.

This is a strategic safeguarding post to provide and promote expert leadership, professional and strategic advice to health commissioners’ practitioners and the Safeguarding Partnership including around local requirements arising from relevant legislation and guidance, working across the health economy in accordance with national and guidance and Working Together and RCPCH job descriptions.

The role encompasses enabling and seeking to ensure that the West Yorkshire ICB (WYICB) at Bradford PLACE complies with national and local requirements arising from relevant legislation and guidance for Safeguarding children. This includes policy development and providing expert advice across the WYICB, commissioned providers and multi-agency partnerships and working with Partners.

The Designated Doctor Safeguarding Children is an expert and strategic leader for safeguarding and is a vital source of safeguarding advice and expertise for all relevant agencies and other organisations, in particular to health commissioners, ICBs, the local authority, Children Partnerships (Bradford District and North Yorkshire).

The Post holder provides safeguarding expertise, support and advice to the Director of Nursing and Quality who is responsible for child safeguarding and provides a health advisory role to the Bradford Safeguarding Childrens Partnership, attending meetings, fully briefing, and supporting the ICB executive member.

Working with the Designated Nurse: Safeguarding Children, they provide the lead across the health economy on statutory rapid reviews and commissioning of child safeguarding practice reviews ensuring that learning for health partners is disseminated and put into practice. They provide assurance externally to the ICB, safeguarding partnerships and NHSE that Bradford place is meeting its own statutory functions to safeguarding children and children in care.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

Benefits

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.

The postholder will work strategically across the local system, crossing organisational boundaries and unblocking traditional barriers to access, ensuring that keyworkers are embedded within the pathways across health, education and LA facilitating a keyworker for all children, young people and families that need it.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr R Skelton Job title: Consultant Paediatrician Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01274 383527

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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