Safeguarding Children Lead

6 months ago


Luton, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust Full time

Our aim is to ensure the children and young people living in the Pan Bedfordshire area (Luton, Central Bedfordshire and Bedford) have every opportunity to achieve their full potential. We are excited about taking forward real opportunities for maximising the best outcomes for children, young people and their families.

If you are passionate about safeguarding and have experience of working in a safeguarding position and if you share our enthusiasm and commitment to creating the very best opportunities for children and young people in Luton, we want to hear from you

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Specialist Community Public Health Nurse or Social Worker to develop their safeguarding skills and knowledge within the safeguarding children arena.

The post holder will use their excellent communication skills to provide specialist advice, supervision, and safeguarding training to CCS staff.

You will also be contributing to the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub, as a health navigator, gathering and analysing health information in order to participate fully in multi-agency decision making to safeguard and protect children.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There’s one reason why our services are outstanding - and that’s our amazing staff - who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

The post holder will work as part of the safeguarding children team supporting the organisation in its quality assurance role, ensuring that identified safeguarding issues are managed effectively and support is provided appropriately.

The post holder will work as part of the safeguarding team with responsibility and professional accountability as specialist nurse for safeguarding children. The post holder will be a committed, expert practitioner working in the safeguarding children team, delivering quality training; supervision; and expert advice to ensure the trust meets its statutory responsibilities in safeguarding children. This varied role includes working in the integrated Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH), involving the analysis of complex often conflicting information where material is drawn from multiple sources.

Promote awareness within the Trust of everyone’s responsibility to safeguard children and promote their welfare and to promote good professional practice throughout CCS services in relation to safeguarding children.

Provide safeguarding children supervision to practitioners within the children’s workforce to promote confident safe practice and promote the practitioners skills and competencies to safeguard children

Provide expert advice support and guidance to all staff within Luton in relation to safeguarding children.

Work with the other safeguarding specialist nurses to provide the health input to the Multi-agency Safeguarding Hub in Luton and Bedfordshire.

To research, collate and appropriately share health information and contribute to the health component of multi-agency decision making within the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) and Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC).

Encourage practitioners wherever possible to listen to and act on the ‘voice of the child’ within their practice, record keeping and reports.

Deputise for the Named Professional when appropriate, with regard to Safeguarding children and to actively contribute to the development of links with other agencies.

Participate in complex case management and case reviews at both single and multi
- agency levels.

Assist the Named Professional to identify areas of improvement through quality assurance and audit, which will provide evidence to support the Clinical Governance Framework.

Contribute to the development, delivery and facilitation of the Safeguarding Training Plan to enable staff members to be equipped with the competencies, knowledge and awareness to respond appropriately to any safeguarding children concerns.

Assist the Named Professional and Heads of Safeguarding to ensure that safeguarding systems, policies and procedures are regularly monitored, evaluated and developed.



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