Job summary
We are currently seeking a passionate and
highly experienced paediatric nurse who would like to develop their
safeguarding skills. The ideal candidate will have some acute hospital
experience or possess transferable skills that will contribute to our
dedicated teams safeguarding agenda.
This role enables the
successful candidate to develop their clinical expertise relating to
safeguarding children and young people. You will gain experience within the
role by covering all of our 5 sites. You will cover many different
specialities, including our trauma services, our specialist eye hospital, 2
accident and emergency departments, 3 urgent care centres, sexual health
services and our inpatient paediatric services such as general medicine, paediatric
intensive care and specialist heamatology and infectious disease services plus
many many more.
Main duties of the job
As part of the day to day role
we will triage all children under 18 attendances to unscheduled care, liaise
and information share with external agencies, e.g. health visitors, school
nurses, social workers, integrated gang unit workers, social workers and Redthread,
ensuring the safety and wellbeing of the children. You will support the delivery
safeguarding training. You will advocate for children in a variety of
safeguarding meetings and work collaboratively with other members of the
multidisciplinary team. You will be supported and mentored by the safeguarding
team, named nurses and consultant nurse.
About us
Kind: we are considerate and thoughtful so everyone feels valued, respected and included
Collaborative: We actively seek others views and ideas so we can achieve more together
Expert: We draw on diverse skills, knowledge and experience so we provide the best possible care
Aspirational: We are receptive and responsive to new thinking, so we never stop learning, discovering and improving
Job description
Job responsibilities
- As a
clinical expert, to lead the operational delivery & support the strategic
delivery of safeguarding practice across the Trust in accordance with national,
regional and local legislation, policies and recommendations, ensuring that
holistic care is provided to children and their families by a well-trained and
proactive workforce, ensuring that the Trust Safeguarding vision is achieved
- To provide
visible, effective leadership and expertise across the Trust, working closely
with the clinical staff and external agencies to ensure children & unborns
are safeguarded
- To support
the Head of Safeguarding and Named Nurse and specialist nurses to ensure the
implementation of current safeguarding legislation and guidelines for children
and young people across ICHT To work in
partnership with a wide range of agencies to achieve the highest standards of
care
- To undertake
research and audit in relation to safeguarding children and young people in
order to gain new information and to inform future practice
- To help
identify any obstacles in safeguarding processes and create solutions
Key
stakeholders
- Consultant
Nurse for Safeguarding/ Head of Safeguarding Named Nurse
- Doctor and Named Midwife for Safeguarding
- Named Adult
Safeguarding Nurse Divisional
Directors of Nursing Head of
Operations, Midwifery & Nursing
- Designated
Doctors and Nurses
- Patients and
visitors
- Support
& clinical staff
- Family
Liaison Nurses
- Safeguarding,
domestic abuse, learning disability & Redthread teams
Key areas of
responsibility EXPERT
PRACTICE AND PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT
- Be the
child's advocate and hear their voice
- Be a role
model for all clinical staff by practising safeguarding to the highest
standard, whilst exercising a high degree of personal and professional autonomy
- Provide
formal, regular and structured safeguarding supervision to more clinical staff
and junior members
- To ensure
they have regular case reviews in regards to complex cases and supervision
- To
participate in learning reviews and serious incident notifications by
completing chronologies etc.
- Advise on
the nursing assessment of individual cases using a range of different
assessment methods, which manage risk and are appropriate to needs, context and
culture, including HEEADSS.
- To provide
evidence based clinical advice on all aspects of practice in relation to
children at risk/children in need/children at risk of significant harm.
- To identify
good practice and practice that needs improvement and identify ways of
solutions and sharing information.
- To promote
anti-discriminatory practice as integral to the service delivery of all
vulnerable children/children in need/children at risk of significant harm.
- To support
the robustness of systems, policies, professional guidance and training
programmes in place so that staff are able to identify children at risk at an
early stage, contribute to safeguarding them from harm and assist in the
provision of effective care for children and their families where abuse has
occurred.
- Demonstrate
commitment to develop own expertise, engaging with training opportunities in
order to increase and disseminate specialist knowledge and awareness of
professional and legal issues arising in safeguarding of children.
- Demonstrate
resilience within the role by engaging in peer supervision and case reviews
with senior safeguarding members.
PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP AND
SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
- To provide
leadership and expert advice to all staff involved in safeguarding.
- Inspire
colleagues to improve standards and quality of care and to develop professional
practice in safeguarding.
- To provide
expert advice to others outside of nursing and medical care.
- With the
safeguarding team, to act as a catalyst for change, leading and influencing
development of policy, practice and staff in the delivery of safeguarding
practice
EDUCATION,
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
- Support the
design, implantation and evaluation of the Trust safeguarding children training
and supervision.
- Alongside
safeguarding leads update training slides and create training across the Trust.
- Ensure
training areas are conductive to learning about safeguarding.
- Participate
in external training.
RESEARCH,
AUDIT AND EVALUATION
- Work within
a framework for setting, monitoring and auditing standards, encouraging
benchmarking to improve quality.
- To play a
supportive role across the Trust in the development of quality and safety
initiative frameworks to secure quality improvements for safeguarding
childrens practice alongside the Lead Professionals.
- Collate data
and populate the scorecard as required
General
responsibilities
KEY RESULT AREAS:
- To lead on addressing the
safeguarding children and young people agenda Trust wide
- Provide
expert advice, practice and support for colleagues providing clinical and
safeguarding care with the child
- Provide
expert practice in safeguarding children
- With the
safeguarding team, support the achievement of the Trust Safeguarding Children
and Young People Strategy
- With the
safeguarding team, support the audit and research of safeguarding practice in
the Trust Support the
production of reports, policies and guidelines related to safeguarding children
and which can be used by children Support on
the production of reports, policies and guidelines related to the current
guidelines and policies. Work in
conjunction with the Head of Safeguarding/Consultant Nurse of Safeguarding team
to deliver good safeguarding evidence based care
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Address
The Bays
S Wharf Road
London
W2 1NY