Regional Safeguarding and Children in Care Lead

Job Introduction
As a **Regional Safeguarding and Children in Care Lead for** HCRG Care Group (Southwest region), you will be leading a team who are focused on continuous improvement. The main purpose of this leadership role is to support our Wiltshire and Bath and Northeast Somerset services, HCRG Care Group to meet its responsibilities to safeguard/protect children, young people, and adults. This includes contributing to our national organisational wide safeguarding agenda.

This is a permanent, role working 4 days per week with the opportunity to split your time between services and home.

Main Responsibilities
Your main responsibility of this senior role will be to lead and manage the safeguarding and children in care teams and be responsible to and accountable within the managerial framework.

You will:

- Work as a member of the leadership team, including the wider HCRG Care Group safeguarding and children in care sub-committee
- Lead, support, supervise and coach our safeguarding and children in care colleagues within our region
- Be a key influencer in bringing innovative best practice to our service
- Develop programmes/ pathways that support the local safeguarding team to deliver their contractual obligations and to optimise the health outcome for children, young people, and adults and to contribute to the development of wider organisational safeguarding agenda
- Provide assurance to the leadership team that our safeguarding services are robust
- Be registered on either Part 1 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register as a registered children’s nurse and / Part 1 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as a Registered Adults Nurse and Part 3 register as a specialist community public health nurse and having completed a specific programme with a child and family focus
- Have completed specific post-registration training in safeguarding or children in care prior to commencement in the post (including law, policy, and practice at Level 2 or Post Graduate Diploma (PGDip)
- Have a minimum of three years’ experience practicing in the field of safeguarding.
- Experience of working as a Named Nurse/ Safeguarding Lead
- Have the ability to write detailed and comprehensive reports and reviews

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.

Package Description
As a Safeguarding Lead, you’ll be part of our valued team.

You will feel valued as a Regional Safeguarding and Children in Care Lead within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

- £56164 - £65,262 (Band 8B AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- 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
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s 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 to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- 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
- 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 and with excellent safeguarding feedback from regulators