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Job overview

Join our team to make a difference to children and adults who are in need of help and support! We are looking for an experienced nurse who will work as part of our well established safeguarding team and multi-agency safeguarding hubs, where you will lead on health contribution to assessment and information sharing of children's social care referrals.

Main duties of the job

• Promote the safety and welfare of children, young people and adults by acting as a role model demonstrating excellent safeguarding practice underpinned by the Think Family approach.
• Provide robust, timely and sensitive consultation, advice and support to Oxleas staff who have concerns about children or adults at risk.
• In conjunction with the Safeguarding team, design, develop and deliver safeguarding training based on training needs analysis and in accordance with legislation, national policies and guidance and also with reference to local policies and procedures.
• Contribute to Individual Management Reviews (or other specific case reviews) and ensure the embedding of the learning from such Reviews.
• Participate in the MASH process, rotating with the existing MASH Health professionals, primarily co-located within the MASH multi-agency team.
• Act on behalf of the health economy and develop constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders and specifically health professionals from a wider range of services and disciplines.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care