Paediatric Safeguarding Specialist Nurse

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Hartford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Responsibilities

• The post holder is a recognised expert in safeguarding children and is responsible for supporting staff to identify and support children, young people and families at risk of harm.
• Responsible for providing advice and support to frontline staff, delivering formal and informal training, delivering safeguarding supervision.
• Responsible for information sharing internally and within the multi-agency safeguarding network to enable robust safeguarding risk assessment.
• Required to participate and lead clinical audits in own specialist area and participate in developing robust clinical governance procedures.
• Required to represent CUH at multi-agency meetings including strategy meeting, safeguarding conferences and core group/child in need meetings, discharge planning meetings.
• Required to work as part of the safeguarding children partnership and to work collaboratively within the multi-agency network.

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It\'s a great place to nurse, work and live.

You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.