Designated Safeguarding Nurse

Black Country Integrated Care Board; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Black Country Integrated Care Board is seeking an experienced safeguarding lead to oversee the Designated Nurses for safeguarding children and adults, ensuring delivery in line with statutory guidance.

You will work with the safeguarding team to ensure responsibilities are met for children, looked-after children and adults, while acting up in absence of the Lead Designated Nurse as required. The role integrates expertise with strategic anchors to drive improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead safeguarding duties for Designated Nurses as per statutory guidance.
• Work with safeguarding team to ensure the ICB meets safeguarding duties for children, looked-after children and adults.
• Designated Nurses remain responsible; tasks may be delegated to Assistant Designated Nurse during absence.
• Role blends subject expertise and technical skills to strengthen service delivery; anchored to strategic priorities.
• Provide strategic leadership and delegated responsibilities from the Lead Designated Nurse.
• Ensure system assurance and quality oversight across safeguarding work.
• Foster multi-agency partnership work to deliver safeguarding priorities and service improvements.
• Offer expert clinical advice to support ICB staff in contracting, commissioning and related roles, with partners.
• Collaborate with BI/analytics to integrate safeguarding performance and population risk into commissioning decisions and monitoring frameworks.

Job description

• Support Lead the Designated Nurses for Safeguarding children and adults in fulfilling the functions associated with the post as detailed in statutory / national guidance.
• In combination with other members of the ICB safeguarding team, lead and support all activities necessary to ensure that the ICB meets their responsibilities for safeguarding children, children looked after and adults
• While the Designated Nurses for Safeguarding remain responsible, some tasks will be delegated to the Assistant Designated Nurse and they will be expected to act up in their absence.
• The role is designed to build a combination of subject matter expertise and technical skills to develop a strong service delivery. In carrying out your role, at least one of the agreed strategic anchors should be at the core of everything you do:
• Commissioning for Value and Outcomes
• Accelerating Neighbourhood Health at Pace
• Making the Best Use of Digital Solutions in our Pathways
• Financial Discipline / 2% Productivity
• Advancing Health Equity
• Integrated Partnership, Ensure the ICB meets all statutory safeguarding duties as defined in related documents including the Safeguarding Accountability and Assurance Framework (SAAF) 2024, Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023, Intercollegiate Documents for Children and Adults 20025 and all relevant legislation including:
• Children Act 1989 and 2004
• Care Act 2014
• Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Liberty Protection Safeguards (when implemented)
• NHS Act 2006
• Domestic Abuse Act 2021
• Serious Violence Duty 2023
• You will provide:
• Strategic leadership undertaking delegated responsibilities from the Lead Designated Nurse in your area
• System assurance and quality oversight
• Partnership working across a range of multi-agency safeguarding boards and partnership arrangements to deliver effective safeguarding and key priorities and service improvements.
• Expert clinical advice across a range of safeguarding matters to support ICB staff in contracting, commissioning, quality roles, health economy staff in a range of strategic and operational roles and multiagency partners
• Collaborate with Business Intelligence and analytics colleagues to integrate safeguarding performance and population risk indicators into commissioning decisions and monitoring frameworks. Birmingham, the Black Country and Solihull Integrated Care Board (ICB) brings together the NHS, local councils and voluntary sector partners to support 2.7 million people. Our vision is to make the area the healthiest place to live and work by improving life chances and reducing inequalities.