Safeguarding Children Advisor

3 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Newham Council Full time

**Job Description
Safeguarding Children Advisor/ Nurse**
£46,857 - 49,890 inclusive of higher cost allowance - LBN PO5/AfC Band 7 equivalent

**About Us**

Newham is an incredibly diverse borough with a very young population and is experiencing considerable regeneration as part of the Olympic legacy. There are over 86,000 children and young people in Newham and we want each of them to have the same life chances as young people in other parts of London.

This post is directly employed by the London Borough of Newham, who was the first London borough to offer a fully integrated 0-19 health and social care service after we assumed direct responsibility for providing School Nursing services, Health Visiting and Family Nurse Partnership in 2017. Therefore, our CYPS directorate will be delivering the 0-19 Healthy Child programme through the Childrens Health Service.

We have a stable and permanent management team in the Childrens Health Service and are now recruiting to this Safeguarding Advisor role within our Health Safeguarding Team.

**The Children's Health 0-19 service had their CQC inspection in 2021 and rated Good in all areas.**

**The Job**

The Safeguarding Children Advisor/ Nurse will be part of a team providing child protection advice, support and training to staff across the Children Health workforce. They will work with the wider Safeguarding workforce to ensure an effective governance framework is in place. The role will include supporting the CYPS Children’s Triage Team.

The post holder will be responsible for providing supervision and training in child protection to staff across the Children’s Health 0-19 Service in order to support their work with vulnerable children.

This role will provide support to members of the team involved in child protection processes through support in attending child protection conferences, strategy meeting and other interagency professional meetings as the need arise.

The post holder will provide advice and expertise regarding child protection to staff across Children’s Health, working in partnership with other Safeguarding leads and other members of the CYPS team, including the Newham Safeguarding Children Partnership, to ensure safety and quality of service delivery. A key responsibility of this post, would be to facilitate staff in developing their knowledge base in safeguarding children, through innovative practice, using supervision models to support high quality delivery of services and effective case management.

**About You**

The service is seeking a Safeguarding Children Advisor with experience of working in a service with complex population needs and vulnerable families. This role is for someone with in depth knowledge of the 0-19 public health nursing service (Family Nurses, Health Visiting and School Health Teams) and its key priorities. The Safeguarding Children Advisor must have expertise in child protection supervision and training, and have a comprehensive understanding of risk management in relation to case management and care planning. The post holder must be able to work effectively within a multiagency team and provide a high level of safeguarding support to community health staff.
- Post registration/graduate
- Specialist Practice Qualification in Health Visiting/School Nursing (SCPHN)
- NMC Registered - Professional nursing/ midwifery
- Teaching Certificate or equivalent mentorship training.
- A minimum of three years’ experience as a qualified Health Visitor/School Nurse
- Experience of Multi
- agency/multidisciplinary working
- Experience of direct supervision of qualified and unqualified staff

Further information regarding the role can be found in the job description.

**_Our offer - _**

We recognise that delivery of quality services to the community depends on a healthy, well-motivated workforce, we are therefore able to offer;
- **_Genuine management support: _**Low supervisor/supervisee ratios. Employee wellbeing programmes. HEART values and behaviours.
- **_Learning & Development: _**Support to take up advanced clinical training and wider workforce development package to enhance your skills. Clear competency and career progression framework. Access to smart technology.

**Contact**

Closing date: 9th April 2023

Please view Safeguarding Children Advisor/Nurse jd

**Additional Information**

**Please attach your supporting statement, explaining in no more than x2 A4 sides why and how you meet the criteria for this role.**

**We practice anonymised recruitment. Please ensure that you remove all personal information from any documents that you upload.
- About Us
The London Borough of Newham is located only 5 miles east of London. It is well positioned with access to all major networks in London and the south east. It is well connected by public transport with, bus, tube and DLR. When the Crossrail service opens it will call at Custom House close to our council offices and also Stratford station and from there to central London.



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