Specialist Safeguarding Nurse
2 weeks ago
Job summary
The Kingston-Upon-Thames 0 -19 serviceat Your Healthcare is excited to share an opportunity for an experienced,enthusiastic and self-directed Specialist Community Public Health Nurse to jointhem in a specialist safeguarding role. This role would be well suited to anexperienced Specialist School Nurse or Health Visitor (SCPHN).
The0 -19 service for Your Healthcare encompasses the Health Visiting Team andSchool Health Team, who provide services to children and young people whoattend Kingston schools or who are home educated and live in the Borough.
Main duties of the job
You will hold a safeguarding caseloadacross the 0 -19 service and provide supervision and support to staff acrossthe service, including School Nurses, Health Visitors and non-registered staff.You will be provided with access to the training and support required to fulfilthis role, including access to the safeguarding supervision course.
You will be based with the YourHealthcare Safeguarding team, providing wider opportunities to develop your safeguardingknowledge and skills. This will include representing the service at ChildProtection strategy meetings and exposure to all of the key elements ofprovision made by this team with external partners such as supernumeraryattendance at MARAC, Multi-agency Child Exploitation (MACE) and Missing Personsmeetings.
About us
Your healthcare is a SocialEnterprise which operates a policy of distributed leadership. This enables staff to have the freedom to becreative in the development of the service. In the 0 19 service this isdemonstrated by the innovative service offer which includes activities nottypical of other services, including the Henry Programme that promotes healthylifestyles and Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home visiting (MECSH) . We are proud of our excellent partnership relationships with localservices and commissioners, which supports us to be responsive to the needs ofour local population.
Your Healthcare CIC is a not-for-profit social enterprisethat puts employees at the heart of the organization. In our recent staff survey 93% of staff reported that Your Healthcare isa great place to work and 99% of staff reported feeling proud of the serviceswe deliver.
Job description
Job responsibilities
2. Job Purpose
Deliver, support, and develop the 0-19 services safeguarding provision.3. Dimensions
Work as an autonomous practitioner and be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own safeguarding provision - covering direct work and caseload management. Support quality provision into partnered safeguarding meetings, providing quality feedback to 0-19 team members and the Safeguarding team. Work collaboratively with professionally registered and unregistered practitioners to provide supervision and team-based training to enhance practice, improving assessment and provision to safeguarded children and their families.4. Key Result Areas
Clinical
To hold responsibility for a caseload of safeguarded childen and young peopleoperating in a professional capacityconsistent with YH and All London Child Protection Procedures, alerting the named nurse for child or adult protection when exceptional risks are identified, consistent with YH and All London Child Protection Procedures.
To respond where necessary to Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub requests, attend Safeguarding Strategy, Professional and Multi- Agency planning meetings and any Borough Based Safeguarding meetings as required by the Lead for example the Missing Persons meeting.
To provide professional advice and supervision to registered and unregistered members of the multidisciplinary 0-19 team in their role with safeguarded children on all matters relating to the protection of children and the promotion of their welfare.,
Delivering support to staff to meet their identified training/support needs, expanding on and supporting the embedding of skills and knowledge received as part of mandatory framework.
To assist those staff with internal case reviews supporting changes or adjustments to their delivery and where appropriate to attend appointments to support the practitioner.
To contribute to strategies and policies for service improvement alongside the Leads and Your Healthcare Childrens Safeguarding Team
Governance
To contribute, where requested to do so by the Lead, to internal and external audit of Safeguarding delivery and processes- according to national and local priorities.
To contribute into the Safeguarding Teams formulation and review of all child protection policies, guidelines, and protocols for Your Healthcare
To contribute to the monitoring of record keeping standards within the 0-19 team as they relate to the provision of safeguarded work and to provide practical support and guidance in line with Your Healthcare Policy and agreed process within the team and the Safeguarding Team.
Management
To ensure that the recommendations and implications of case reviews are disseminated and learning acted upon as it relates to 0-19 team provision.
To participate with the Safeguarding team and School Health and HV Leads in ensuring all new members of staff, working with children and/or their families, receive mandatory child protection induction and that all specialist elements relevant to their roles are identified and acted upon either through attendance at courses or through the provision of local bespoke training.
Communication and Working Relationships
Promote good practice and effective communication within the 0-19 Team and between Your Healthcare and all agencies on all matters relating to the protection of children.
To facilitate multi-agency and interdisciplinary partnerships to promote and maintain an effective service to clients, ensuring that information from other agencies, including Police and Social Services, is relayed to staff as appropriate and action plans identified with them.
Ensure information is effectively managed and best practice is shared across the team.
To work alongside the SH and HV team leads and the Safeguarding Team to support the development of effective working relationships with other agencies including acute, primary and voluntary sectors.
To deputise on occasion for the Safeguarding team by attendance at Borough based Safeguarding.
Mental Effort
Advanced level of assessment to ensure full needs of vulnerable children are correctly identified and provided for.
Ability to act responsively and proactively to developing needs within the team and work creatively to support skills development across a wide ability group.
Emotional Effort
The role requires dealing with difficult and sensitive situations and post holder may be required to deal with criticism and negative or stressful emotions/conflict of others internally and externally.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
Significant post-registration experience in a 0-19 team: School Health / Health Visiting Extensive experience in child protection work including risk assessment, safeguarding of vulnerable children and adults, and multiagency responses. Experience in providing supervision to others. Experience of teaching others Experience of multiagency working Demonstrated ability to manage own workload and make informed decisions, working to tight and often changing timescales. Evidence of implementing evidence base practice
Desirable
Experience in professional leadership. Experience of working with other key stakeholders in promoting and championing health services for vulnerable children and young people Experience of engaging in auditing and monitoring child protection work Experience of planning and delivering training
Skills and abilities
Essential
Excellent oral and written communications including negotiation, influencing, facilitation and report writing skills. High level analytical skills Highly organised a responsive Mentoring and counselling Ability to organise and prioritise workload. Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines. Significant experience of working in a team Adaptable when different approaches are required. Ability to manage conflict. Competent IT skills Ability to effectively use different styles of influencing in a variety of settings. Ability to critically appraise research findings and draw out significance for clinical practice and implement research findings. Ability to pay attention to detail.
Desirable
Evidence of leadership and change management skills.
Qualifications
Essential
Specialist Community Public Health Nurse Qualification School Nursing/ Health Visiting First-level degree or comparable experience or qualifications in safeguarding children Mentor qualification.
Desirable
Specialist Community Public Health Nurse Qualification School Nursing/ Health Visiting First-level degree or comparable experience or qualifications in safeguarding children Mentor qualification.
Personal qualities
Essential
Flexible and adaptable Self-motivated
Other factors
Essential
Car driver
Knowledge
Essential
Excellent knowledge of current key issues affecting families with children from 0-19 school aged children and young people A strong working knowledge of consent and wider aspects of safe relationship work including Child Exploitation and contextual safeguarding. Excellent knowledge of safeguarding childrens policies and procedures and best practice nationally and locally Excellent knowledge of legal frameworks regarding child welfare Understanding of information governance and confidentiality working across organisational boundaries and integrated care providers Understanding of the needs/perceptions of minority groups in child protection. Understanding of the role of clinical governance and child protection An understanding of research and clinical audit Knowledge of principles and practice of supervision.-
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