Safeguarding Children Nurse/Advisor

1 week ago

London, United Kingdom Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

We are currently seeking a passionate and highly experienced nurse with a strong background in managing safeguarding cases or situations. The ideal candidate will have some acute hospital experience or possess transferrable skills that will contribute to the our dedicated teams safeguarding agenda.

This role enables the successful candidate to develop their clinical expertise relating to safeguarding children and young people. You will gain experience within the role by covering all of our 5 sites. You will cover many different specialties, including our trauma services, our specialist eye hospital, 2 accident and emergency departments, 3 urgent care centres, sexual health services and our inpatient paediatric services such as general medicine, paediatric intensive care and specialist hematology and infectious disease services plus many many more.

We are fortunate to work with in a large integrated safeguarding team. The team consists of Named Nurses for Children and Adults, a Consultant Nurse, Named Midwife, Named Doctor, Safeguarding midwives, Safeguarding nurses for both children and adults, a Domestic abuse nurse, learning disability staff and administrators.

The team work over the weekend between the hours of 9 -5 so weekend working would be part of the hours of working for the role.

Main duties of the job

As part of the day to day role we will triage all children under 18 attendances to unscheduled care, liaise and information share with external agencies, health visitors, school nurses, social workers, integrated gang unit workers, social workers and Redthread, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of the children.

You will deliver safeguarding training to staff as well as provide safeguarding supervision You will advocate for children in a variety of safeguarding meetings and work collaboratively with other members of the multidisciplinary team. You will be supported and mentored by the safeguarding team, named nurses and consultant nurse.

About us

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

RN (Child) or RN and registered Health Visitor/Specialist Community Public Health Nurse with completion of child & family focus programme Educated to a degree level in relevant subject area or evidence of equivalent RN with relevant safeguarding children experience

Desirable

Recognised teaching/assessing qualification

Experience

Essential

Experience of working within an acute hospital setting with children, young people and their families Experience of team working and liaison with other agencies Evidence of experience in safeguarding practice Experience and knowledge of quality, standard setting and audit Sound experience in managing complaints and quality assurance Experience of multi-agency working Evidence of innovative practice that involves change, research and/or audit

Desirable

Experience of providing supervision to staff

Skills/knowledge/abilities

Essential

Evidence of undertaking senior role working with children, young people and families Detailed and thorough knowledge of current safeguarding legislation and guidelines Knowledge of quality, standard setting and audit Demonstrable understanding of National and Local health strategies Proven people management skills Proven ability to effectively manage change Good time management skills, with the ability to meet deadlines and work effectively under pressure Ability to prioritise clinical workload according to need and make decisions accordingly Articulate with advanced written and verbal communication skills and ability to write reports suitable for presentation to various audiences Sound IT skills (including email and office packages) Able to give safeguarding supervision Able to teach and ability to lone work

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