Job summary
- Main area
- Safeguarding
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Wednesday to Friday 9-5pm)
- Job ref
- 844-6894177
- Employer
- Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Catherine's HC
- Town
- Birkenhead
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Nurse Safeguarding Children - Wirral
Band 7
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust's common purpose:
We will support you and your community to live well.
Our values:
Compassion
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Open
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Trust
Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust provides high quality community health and care services which are responsive to the needs of our local population. Services are delivered by our dedicated and innovative multi disciplinary professionals and supported by equally committed staff behind the scenes. We strive to continue developing and improving our services by working with and listening to our populations, partners, commissioners and staff.
WCHC offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based services across Cheshire and Merseyside.
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Job overview
The Safeguarding Service provides the organisation’s board with assurance regarding the effective discharge of its safeguarding duties in line with relevant legislation and national guidance. The service and takes a planned and systematic approach to monitoring, assessing and improving safeguarding capacity and capability across the organisations clinical services.
A vacancy has arisen for 22.5 hrs for a Children’s Specialist safeguarding nurse to work within Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust on Wirral in the Safeguarding team.
Main duties of the job
- Assist the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children in taking a professional lead within Wirral Community health and care NHS Trust services on safeguarding children matters in association with Named Doctor.
- Provide specialist advice, support and training on Safeguarding Children to all WCHC staff
- Promote good professional practice within community services relating to the safeguarding of children.
- In the absence of the Named Nurse, ensure senior managers are kept appraised of local performance to safeguard children.
- Support the Named and Designated Professionals in ensuring Wirral fulfil their responsibilities for the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in accordance with Working Together, 2023 and the Children Acts of 1989 and 2004.
Support the Named Nurse to work alongside partners within the WSCP arena, to deliver partnership requirements in respect of safeguarding children
Working for our organisation
WCHC is a busy community Trust and the Safeguarding children's team is made up of four areas Wirral, Cheshire East , Knowsley and St Helens.
The Wirral team is based at St Catherine's HC and consists of the Named Nurse, Specialist Safeguarding children's nurses and Children looked after nurses all supported by an administration team .
We work closely with children's services on Wirral and have built strong relationships with all agencies
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post requires good communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to be adaptable, reliable, and approachable. You will have strong, analytical and leadership skills plus.
- Provide specialist advice, support and training on Safeguarding Children to all WCHC staff
- Promote good professional practice within community services relating to the safeguarding of children.
- In the absence of the Named Nurse, ensure senior managers are kept appraised of local performance to safeguard children.
- Support the Named and Designated Professionals in ensuring Wirral fulfil their responsibilities for the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in accordance with Working Together, 2023 and the Children Acts of 1989 and 2004.
- Support the Named Nurse to work alongside partners within the WSCP arena, to deliver partnership requirements in respect of safeguarding children.
You will have a good knowledge of Working Together to safeguard children 2023 , Clinical Governance, Risk Management, and relevant Professional Codes.
Person specification
Qualifications & Professional Training
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse/Registered midwife
- Registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse or RSCN
- Post graduate qualification in leadership or equivalent experience
- Post graduate qualification in a safeguarding related subject such as supervision
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 3 years post registration experience as Health Visitor, School Nurse or RSCN, with significant experience of Safeguarding Children processes
- Experience of providing supervision to staff
- Sound working knowledge of Community Health Care provision
- Sound working knowledge of the legislative framework underpinning children’s health provision and safeguarding children
- Ability to demonstrate appropriate assessment of needs of children and interventions required to safeguard children
- Participation in developments in practice.
- Effective inter-personal skills in order to work with and liaise effectively with health staff and personnel from other agencies
- Ability to prioritise workload and sound personal organisational skills
- Ability to produce clear and concise written reports as required.
- Effective presentation, facilitation and teaching skills
- Able to give sound advice on working with vulnerable children based on in-depth knowledge.
- Ability to make sound judgements regarding the welfare of children, demonstrating confidence in professional view and analysis.
- Ability to plan interagency interventions for children and families.
- Ability to manage potentially hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmospheres, disseminating unwelcome information in a sensitive manner.
- Able to undertake responsibility for service developments.
- Experience of offering training to colleagues
Skills and attributes
Essential criteria
- Excellent inter-personal skills including negotiation, influencing and presentation skills
- Excellent leadership skills
- Ability to influence, motivate and negotiate with others
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Ability to understand and analysis complex data
- Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care with a detailed understanding of safeguarding policy context
- Self-management and motivation skills
- Confidence to challenge traditional practice and persistence to address difficult issues
- IT literate
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Flexibility in work patterns
- Ability to balance work/home life
- Good Communicator
- Able to travel between sites
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jayne Williams
- Job title
- Named Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07709200241
- Additional information
I work Monday to Wednesday 9-5pm
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