Job summary
- Main area
- Safeguarding
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 156-6422260
- Employer
- Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Cornwall Hospital
- Town
- Truro
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Safeguarding Practitioner for Children
Band 6
Job overview
Our Integrated Safeguarding Team continually strive to ensure that all Trust staff know their safeguarding roles and responsibilities and are equipped to improve services and outcomes for children and young people.
As a member of the Children’s Safeguarding Team, within the Integrated Safeguarding Team, you will provide advice and support across the Trusts, predominately in relation to paediatric and children services, and be actively involved in safeguarding supervision and education. Working in partnership with other health service providers and agencies, both statutory and voluntary, to promote children’s rights and keep them safe from harm.
The successful candidate will have experience and confidence of multi-disciplinary / agency working within the safeguarding children arena, be a highly motivated, enthusiastic, and ambitious nurse with a passion and aptitude for safeguarding.
Main duties of the job
We have an exciting opportunity at Royal Cornwall Hospital for you to develop your career in safeguarding children and vulnerable families.
Our Integrated Safeguarding Team continually strive to ensure that all Trust staff know their safeguarding roles and responsibilities and are equipped to improve services and outcomes for children and young people.
As a member of the Children’s Safeguarding Team, within the Integrated Safeguarding Team, you will provide advice and support across the Trusts, predominately in relation to paediatric and children services, and be actively involved in safeguarding supervision and education. Working in partnership with other health service providers and agencies, both statutory and voluntary, to promote children’s rights and keep them safe from harm.
The successful candidate will have experience and confidence of multi-disciplinary / agency working within the safeguarding children arena, be a highly motivated, enthusiastic, and ambitious nurse with a passion and aptitude for safeguarding.
This post will be subject to a disclosure and barring service enhanced level check.
This is a 37.5hr, full time and part time substantive post.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) is the main provider of acute and specialist care services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We serve a population of around 500,000 people - a figure that can increase significantly with
visitors during the busiest times of the year. We employ approximately 6,700 staff and have a budget of approximately £580 million.
We are a teaching hospital in partnership with the University of Exeter Medical School, University of Plymouth School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Peninsula Dental School.
The Knowledge Spa on the Royal Cornwall Hospital site is the base for medical and nursing as well as ongoing education for health professions in clinical and non-clinical roles.
Keeping at the forefront of medical advances, we are continually developing our clinical services as well as our facilities and are committed to maximising the range of specialist care that can be offered locally. Allied to this is a growing reputation for research and innovation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This post has been developed to support the Integrated RCHT/CFT Safeguarding Team and Named Nurse for Safeguarding to support all activities necessary to ensure that the children’s service and wider organisation meets its responsibilities to safeguard and protect babies, children and young people.
Act as a source of expertise to patients and staff, in terms of support, supervision, information, signposting and advice. Promoting a high level of judgment, discretion and decision making in an acute Trust environment, including the community setting
To work collaboratively with multi-agency, multi-disciplinary teams and networks to support a whole systems approach to care delivery.
Attendance and contribution to relevant safeguarding meetings both internal and external where Trust representation is required.
Ensure effective communication and appropriate information sharing between children services, services throughout the Trust, primary care and social care in relation to safeguarding children’s arrangements.
To maintain up to date records and support with audit, collating and analysing data
To support and facilitate in the delivery of safeguarding supervision sessions
Work alongside the wider Integrated Safeguarding team to contribute to and deliver safeguarding training, ensuring learning is embedded into practice.
This post will require travelling to other RCHT sites and other services providers
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience and proven ability of dealing with distressed, upset patients or staff members. Experience and proven success in discussing sensitive issues with people. Very significant experience of Adult and/or Child Safeguarding processes and procedures.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of analysing problems and providing solutions/plans in the field of child abuse. Experience of using and managing a data base and data analysis. Experience of involvement in developing a service or process in the field of child abuse. Experience of working with senior clinicians/service providers and challenging them appropriately on behalf of the patient/service user. Experience of advocacy, conciliation, mediation and use of analytical skills.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Jane Walker
- Job title
- Named Nurse for Safeguarding
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07500917458
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