Job summary
- Main area
- Safeguarding
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon- Friday - normal working hours)
- Job ref
- 083-6577555-HH
- Employer
- Sirona care & health CIC
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Badmington Road
- Town
- Bristol
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 Dependent on Experience
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/09/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 01/10/2024
Employer heading
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Named Lead for Safeguarding Children
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received prior to the advertised closing date.
Job overview
The Sirona Integrated Safeguarding Team are responsible for ensuring that Sirona is compliant with all aspects of safeguarding expectations set out within the NHS England Accountability and Assurance Framework (2024), Care Quality Commission Fundamental Standards, particularly ‘Safe’, and Integrated Care Board commissioned quality outcomes.
This includes compliance with all appropriate legislation such as Children Act, Care Act, Mental Capacity Act and MCA (DoLS) together with a clear focus upon specific aspects of safeguarding practice such as Domestic Abuse, Prevent (Radicalisation), Modern Day Slavery, FGM and Contextual Safeguarding.
The team is responsible for developing, contributing and overseeing the safeguarding training strategy, policy and procedure development and oversight, supervision and support to staff together with quality assurance activity and proactive engagement with wider systems safeguarding partners.
Main duties of the job
Provide operational and organisational leadership for the Safeguarding Children agenda across Sirona care & health to ensure staff are aware of their responsibilities to safeguard.
Proactively support and facilitate a Think Family approach to safeguarding concerns and workstreams, promoting integration and collaboration across adult and child pathways as appropriate.
Responsible for the implementation, provision, evaluation and effectiveness of safeguarding training, supervision and advice across operational service.
Work with internal and external partners, responding to incidents, rapid reviews, child safeguarding practice reviews, and ensure learning is embedded within practice
Implement quality processes and audits, case file reviews and other reviews to capture good practice, effectiveness of responses and learning and to influence the development of service.
Be responsible for and manage the team of specialist nurses and other professionals in complex processes in cases of sudden child deaths, child safeguarding procedures and contributing to case reviews
Working for our organisation
Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas.
We are Sirona care & health – England’s largest provider of Adult’s and Children’s Community Services and we’d love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.
Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days’ annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme – just a glimpse of the benefits you’ll receive.
We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation.
We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.
Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different – we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.
Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find attached to this vacancy.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See Job Description for full details before applying for the role
Person specification
Essentail
Essential criteria
- Registered Qualification and Relevant Post Graduate degree/ working towards or equivalent experience
- Minimum 5 years experience in relevant field & 2 years as Band 7
- Experience of safeguarding partnership experience
- Writing and presenting complex reports
- Line management experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing a team
- Supervision and training qualification and experience
- Registered Specialist Public Health Nurse
Essential
Essential criteria
- First Degree Level in relevant area
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jocelyn Grimwood
- Job title
- Head of Integrated Safeguarding
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07717151180
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