Apprentice School Nurse

4 weeks ago

Sunderland, United Kingdom Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust Full time
Job overview

An exciting opportunity has been made available for a B7 Specialist Nurse Child Protection to work within the Safeguarding Team in Sunderland. The post will be working equally between the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) and predominantly as a SNCP in the SSunderland. You will be working as part of the network of all professionals and agencies within County Durham who contribute to safeguarding children. Utilising your specialist knowledge of safeguarding, child development, and legal frameworks you will work to support the Named Nurse in providing assurances that the safeguarding Team delivers care which is of good quality and assures the trust and it’s wider partners.

  • Analyse health information to produce high quality reports with recommendations for MASH to assist in safeguarding children.
  • To contribute to and undertake, alongside the other Senior Nurse's for Child Protection audits.
  • To support the Named Nurse in producing information for inclusion in the quarterly contract report and the safeguarding annual report
  • To support in the delivery of Safeguarding training within the locality as required
  • To be a safeguarding peer supervisor for the 0-19 (25) team
  • To offer support and advice to Practitioners regarding frontline support to safeguard children and escalations when necessary
  • Support staff new to the trust and students to meet the safeguarding competencies within the Preceptor period

Main duties of the job

Establish effective working relationships and networks with all professionals and agencies contributing to safeguarding of children and young people in Sunderland. Using good levels of knowledge of child development, the law and good knowledge about risks, identify when there is a need to professionally challenge a decision. To support the Safeguarding Children's Team in the delivery of safeguarding children training, supervision and audit. Provide advice and support to partner agencies, and the Sunderland 0-19 (25) service Provide advice to Health Professionals and Professionals in other agencies about health needs and signpost to the appropriate health provider, referring to Senior members of the Safeguarding Children team as appropriate.

The contribution of the health role will include:

  • To attend complex case strategy meetings and ICPCs
  • Training and supervision of the safeguarding skill mix team within the Northumberland Safeguarding pillar, at times this will include undertaking home visits with the safeguarding staff within the skill-mix to complete Health Needs Assessments for children and families.
  • Confidently challenge partners when threshold of risk is not appropriate to safeguard the child/adult.
  • To participate in complex Strategy discussions when a child is at imminent risk of harm.
  • Oversight of the delegation and allocation of resources to ensure a holistic health assessment is completed prior to ICPC attendance.

Working for our organisation

At Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff. We support staff through benefits, health and wellbeing initiatives and opportunities for personal and professional development.

  • An inclusive and supportive culture our Trust encourages staff to bring their whole selves to work and active Staff Networks identify areas for improvement.
  • Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise staff with our Making a Difference, Team of the Month Awards & Colleague Recognition Awards Employee Support and wellbeing - we have a comprehensive Employee Assistance
  • Programme, counselling service and fast track physiotherapy service for employees. Staff Benefits - We have a range of staff benefits and schemes to support staff health, engagement, wellbeing and inclusion.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Personal Specification attached. If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us. HDFT covers a wide footprint area therefore the successful candidate's needs to be willing to travel to other areas on an occasional basis. The footprint covers: Wakefield, North Yorkshire, Stockton, Middleborough, Darlington, Durham, Sunderland, Gateshead and Northumberland. The large footprint is highly conducive to career development.

Person specification essential Essential criteria
  • SNCP
Desirable criteria
  • Leadership

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