Named Nurse Safeguarding Children

Job responsibilities

Key Working Relationships

Head of Safeguarding and Integrated Safeguarding Team members,

Named Doctor, Children's Safeguarding

Chief Nursing Officer and other professionals within the Trust who have safeguarding responsibilities,

Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children, ICB

Managers and all other staff within the Trust,

Worcestershire Safeguarding Children Partnership & sub group members,

Childrens Social Care,

Worcestershire Children's Services,

Police,

Herefordshire & Worcestershire Health & Care NHS Trust,

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, and all other relevant agencies.

Risk Assessment:

This post will involve VDU work

The post-holder may be exposed to violence and aggression

Required to travel on work-related business

Job Purpose:

The Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children will work closely with the Head of Safeguarding and Integrated Safeguarding Team members to:

Ensure that the Trust meets its statutory obligation to safeguard and promote the welfare of all children and young people and vulnerable pregnant women who access services from any hospital site within the Trust.

Act as an invaluable resource, providing a high level of expertise, support and guidance to the Trust and provide professional leadership for both corporate and operational staff, trainees and volunteers in all matters pertaining to Safeguarding Children.

Ensure that staff are supported and empowered in making decisions related to Safeguarding Children to facilitate in promoting the welfare of children, young people and families as paramount. This will include the provision of safeguarding supervision.

Actively participate in the development, implementation and provision of Safeguarding Children Training for all trust staff.

Actively participate and lead on quality assurance processes, audits and report writing in accordance with the Safeguarding Children agenda.

Assist the Head of Safeguarding in all aspects of the multi-agency Safeguarding Children Agenda, as deemed appropriate. This may include deputising within forums and meetings as deemed appropriate.

To participate within line management responsibilities for junior members of staff within the Integrated Safeguarding Team as deemed appropriate, which may include the provision of 1:1 meetings.

Actively support safeguarding investigations and demonstrate excellent interagency working. As the Named Nurse you may represent the Trust at interagency meetings, developing working partnerships at a senior level with partner organisations.

Key Duties:

The Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children leads on and ensures effective Safeguarding Children practice for the organisation as stipulated in primary legislation and underpinned in Government strategy and national, regional and local guidance, procedures and standards. Nurses in this role will:

Develop, implement and review safeguarding practice across the organisation and its networks.

Provide specialist professional safeguarding children advice and effective supervision for a range of professionals and staff.

Deliver, develop, implement and evaluate safeguarding children training for all staff groups from induction to specialist courses.

Undertake the co-ordination and management of Internal Management Reviews that contribute to the Safeguarding Children Partnership Child Safeguarding Practice Review process

Facilitate safe and effective multi-professional communication and information sharing appropriately across a range of settings and agencies.

Communicate highly complex, sensitive and emotive information within the health service and multi-agency contexts, pertaining to suspected or actual risks to vulnerable children, decisions and action plans to protect children and families

Foster effective working relationships in order to promote inter-disciplinary and multi-agency collaboration and be an active member of multi-agency safeguarding groups.

Facilitation of learning:

To assist with the development, delivery and evaluation of evidence based Safeguarding Children training across the Trust.

Participate in the dissemination of any learning and improvement identified by Worcestershire Safeguarding Children Partnership / Adults Board, or the Trust, from any case reviews that are undertaken either locally and nationally.

Clinical Responsibilities:

Provide a visible presence in clinical areas acting as a sound resource for clinical staff, supporting them in dealing with safeguarding referrals and cases which arises in clinical practice.

Provide specialist advice to clinicians in relation to safeguarding issues, including safeguarding referrals, court statement processes and other legal issues and the child protection and child looked after processes.

Undertake a review of assessments, in conjunction with other practitioners where appropriate, of women and children referred in relation to safeguarding issues and to implement appropriate monitoring mechanisms to ensure continued safety. This will include quality assurance of referral processes, audit proposals and plans and quarterly reports.

Escalate safeguarding children cases where deemed appropriate whilst maintaining staff empowerment.

Provide expert advice and support to patients and their families in relation to safeguarding issues.

Be actively appraised to in-patient care matters, liaising with ward staff to ensure high quality care for patients whereby safeguarding children remains central to this.

Liaise with ward staff to ensure appropriate and timely discharge/follow-up arrangements in place for patients about whom ...