Specialist Nurse for Safeguarding Children

HCRG Care Group; Trowbridge; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is looking for a dedicated Specialist Nurse for Safeguarding Children in Trowbridge. You will work with the Safeguarding Team to promote effective safeguarding practices and provide professional advice. The ideal candidate will be a Registered Nurse with experience in child protection, good communication skills, and the ability to collaborate with others. This role includes a competitive salary and a commitment to high clinical standards.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Access to discounts via My Reward Hub

Access to earnings as you work

Mental and physical wellbeing support

Online learning for professional development

Innovation funding for ideas

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with safeguarding experience.
• Evidence of ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.
• Willingness to travel across the BSW patch.

Responsibilities

• Support the promotion of good professional practice.
• Communicate safeguarding policies to all staff.
• Establish links with care providers for children.
• Provide professional advice on safeguarding.

Skills

Safeguarding practice

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Knowledge of child protection

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

Specialist Nurse for Safeguarding Children

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated and experienced Band 7 Specialist Nurse for Safeguarding to join our friendly and welcoming Safeguarding Team in BSW.

You will work as part of the BSW Safeguarding Team to support the Named Nurses for Safeguarding Children for BSW Childrens Community Services in developing an integrated approach to safeguarding children.

You will work closely with the Named Nurses for Safeguarding Children in providing specialist knowledge and advice to health professionals.

This is a highly fulfilling and rewarding role as you will promote effective safeguarding practice by enabling practitioners to identify families who are/may be having difficulty in meeting their child care responsibilities and ensuring that these families are clinically managed through a high standard of evidence based practice and safeguarding children supervision.

The ability and willingness to travel to support this role is required and therefore a valid UK driving licence and willingness to travel across the BSW patch is essential.

Main duties of the job

• To support the promotion of good professional practice.
• TocommunicatetheSafeguardingChildrenPolicyandProcedurestoallstaffensuringthatthese are implemented in practice
• TosupportHCRG Care Groupstaffwithlegalaspectsoftheirroles,regardingcourtstatements,attendingcourt, police requests, CAFCAS, liaising as required with legal services both internal and external.
• To support operational management with sound professional advice in order to ensure delivery of safe and effective safeguarding practice.
• Thepostholderwillestablishlinkswiththoseinvolvedinthecareofchildrenand families.
• Establisheffectivecommunicationandcollaborationwiththelocalauthority,police,educationand other agencies involved in Child Protection and Safeguarding Children.
• Tosupportthedevelopmentofpracticetopromoteandsafeguardthewelfareofchildrenensuring that it is embedded within all services.
• Tosupporttheobjectivesoftheorganisationandcontributetodevelopinganoperationalframe- work for Safeguarding Children and Child Protection.
• ToprovideprofessionaladvicetoHCRG Care Group.
• Tocontributetoensuringthatchildrenaresafeguardedfromharmandthattheserviceisapplied to a high standard consistently across BSW.
• Provideadviceandsupporttofrontlineclinicianstoensurethat highstandardsofpracticeinSafe- guarding and child protection are maintained and continuously improved.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs 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.

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

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Job responsibilities

As a Specialist Nurse for Safeguarding Children, you\'ll be part of our valued team within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 7 salarywithNHS Pensionand fullAgenda for Changeterms and conditions
• Membership ofMy 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
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• 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 career coaching and counselling
• Access toeLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where youre 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
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Person Specification

General Requirements

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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.