Safeguarding Nurse

NHS; Corby; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Part time

Job summary

A local healthcare provider in Corby is seeking a dedicated part-time Safeguarding Nurse to join their safeguarding team. This role involves ensuring high-quality safeguarding services, leading multi-disciplinary meetings, and collaborating with various professionals to improve outcomes for vulnerable patients. The ideal candidate should have a nursing background with experience in safeguarding and the ability to work under pressure.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse, Midwife, Health Visitor, or SCPHN.
• Significant understanding and experience of care within Primary Health.
• Experience of continuous professional development.

Responsibilities

• Ensure a high-quality safeguarding service is delivered.
• Lead multi-disciplinary meetings (MDTs) and assess care for children and families.
• Provide advice and support to professionals within safeguarding.

Skills

Communication skills

Planning and organizational skills

Ability to work under pressure

Education

Registered Nurse or equivalent

Degree level qualification

Job description

At Lakeside Healthcare we are looking to recruit a parttime Safeguarding Nurse to come and join our busy safeguarding team based atForest Gate Medical Centre in Corby.

AtLakeside Healthcare we work in partnership with countywide professionals toensure that safeguarding adults and children is high on the agenda. We requirestaff who share a passion for ensuring adults and children within ourgeographical area, are supported and given the opportunity to achieve in life. If you are returning to practice or arecurrently working in a similar role, we are interested in speaking to you.

Main duties of the job

The idealcandidate will be highly motivated Nurse, have knowledge and experience ofsafeguarding practices and be flexible and able to workcompetently under pressure within the busy GP practice environment.

We require you to have excellent communication,planning, organisational and prioritisation skills andthe ability to work well as a member of an increasingly busy and demanding team.Previous Safeguarding Nurse experience of working in primary care or within anorganisation delivering care to vulnerable children and adults will be ofvalue.

About us

Lakeside Healthcare is a new type of NHS general practice whichbuilds upon and celebrates all that is great about traditional primary careservices. We are local surgeries run by doctors, nurses and associated staffwho know their patients and care deeply about the quality of health provided intheir communities. We build upon this by investing in people, facilities andequipment to provide services that are more accessible, more convenient andmore diverse within the local community. We work for our patients.

TheSafeguarding team covers GP surgeries within the Lakeside Healthcare and the 4PCNs across the county, within the PCN the team also supports GP surgeries thatare not part of Lakeside Healthcare. Theability to travel between sites is essential.

Job responsibilities

The Safeguarding Nurse will work as a dynamic member of thesafeguarding team to ensure a high-quality safeguarding service is delivered toall Lakeside Healthcare (LH) staff, patients and across the Primary CareNetwork (PCN) Practices. The individual Safeguarding Nurse will lead multi-disciplinarymeetings (MDTs) across the LHG and for PCN practices, planning and assessingappropriate care for all children and families. They will work alongsidesafeguarding partners within Northamptonshire, Cambridge and Peterborough,Lincolnshire and Rutland to improve outcomes for vulnerable children, youngpeople and adults. This will include providing advice, support and relevantinformation to a multitude of professionals, enabling the safeguarding team toassess the most appropriate plan of action for each individual case reviewed. TheSafeguarding Nurse will deputise for the Head of Safeguarding, when required,to ensure the safeguarding team continue to deliver all the key objectives,statutory functions and CQC requirements in respect of LH and PCN practices. Thesafeguarding Nurse will be responsible for supporting all Doctors and Nurses tocomplete their statutory duty within the safeguarding arena. The safeguardingNurse will develop and maintain effective working relationships with all colleagues.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse, Midwife, Health Visitor or SN (SCPHN).
• Qualified to degree level or equivalent with significant understanding and experience of care within Primary Health.
• Experience of continuous professional development
• Up to date Revalidation requirements in relation to NMC registration

Experience

• Extensive experience as a registered nurse with a background in child care
• Experience of management of safeguarding child and adult cases including attendance at professional meetings, child protection case conferences and ARM meetings.
• Experience of working in General Practice.
• Extensive up to date knowledge of safeguarding child and adult protection legislation and guidance

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.