Safeguarding Specialist Nurse - South Essex

HCRG Care Group; Wickford; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Safeguarding Specialist Nurse to join their dynamic team in South Essex. This role involves providing expert advice to ensure the effective delivery of clinical services while collaborating with various professionals. The ideal candidate will lead initiatives to improve performance and quality across services, ensuring the highest standards of safeguarding for children and vulnerable individuals. With a commitment to professional development and a supportive work environment, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in the community and transform health and care services.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Access to My Reward Hub

Access to wages as earned

Mental and physical wellbeing support

eLearning and CPD opportunities

Innovation funding

Commitment to quality standards

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with a degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience in safeguarding children and mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality safeguarding services across Essex.
• Support teams in delivering effective care and managing risks.

Skills

Safeguarding Children

Mentorship

IT Systems Proficiency

Decision Making

Quality Improvement

Education

Degree in a relevant subject area

Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Please Note:

Job Introduction

We are excited to announce a vacancy for the position of Safeguarding Specialist Nurse in South Essex.

The post holder will act as an expert resource within HCRG Care Group, working in collaboration with managers and clinicians of all disciplines, providing expert advice to ensure effective delivery of clinical services in accordance with the contractual commitments and associated regulations.

The post holder will work with the Safeguarding Named Nurse to deliver an effective support function in their specialist area and support teams to deliver high quality and effective care. The post holder may be responsible for managing a delegated team.

Base

The base for this role is Highcliffe Family Hub, Wickford, SS11 8JE. We currently work both from home and from the base. There is an expectation that some travel within the quadrant and across Essex will be required.

Main Responsibility

1. Being part of a team providing the highest quality safeguarding service to our colleagues in Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Services.
2. To work autonomously to make decisions of the highest complexity with the subject they are leading and to identify and manage associated risks accordingly.
3. To support the delivery and development of improved performance across all clinical and non-clinical services within the organisation; specifically within the subject they are leading.
4. Promote quality improvement across all services areas.
5. To take responsibility for the monitoring of; and where necessary, working with service leads to improve upon contractual KPIs relating to their subject matter.
6. Leads on specific programmes of work as directed by the Safeguarding Named Nurse.

The Ideal Candidate

1. You will be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, have a degree in a relevant subject area or equivalent experience.
2. You will have a keen interest and experience in Safeguarding Children.
3. You will have experience in mentorship.
4. You may have a teaching and assessing qualification.
5. You may have the Safeguarding Supervision Skills Training.
6. You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

Package Description

As a Safeguarding Specialist Nurse, you will be part of our amazing team in South Essex. You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

1. Band 7 Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
2. Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
3. Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
4. Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
5. Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
6. An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
7. The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.