Job summary
Warwickshire have been selected to join the Families First for Children Pathfinder Programme to design and test social care reforms which have been developed from the Government's Stable Homes, Built on Love strategy.
As part of this programme, we are developing a Multi-Agency Child Protection Team that safeguards all children from significant harm, both inside and outside the home. The Team includes Social Workers, Police Officers, Education Leads, and Safeguarding Nurses, with strong links to other partners. Together, we are committed to creating a safer environment for children in Warwickshire.
The Safeguarding Nurse will act as the Health Navigator. While being part of the new and dynamic Multi-Agency Child Protection Team, they will provide access to various health professionals, helping to identify the right professional for each child and family. They will work with the Health Safeguarding Lead to develop strategic partnerships with services across the system. A key part of their role will be to navigate complex systems and challenge the status quo when necessary to ensure all options are considered.
The role requires a strong understanding of multi-service systems, and the ability to coordinate multi-agency efforts to safeguard and/or promote the welfare of children and young people.
Main duties of the job
The Multi-Agency Child Protection Team has been designed to facilitate information gathering and sharing within a fire-walled environment. You will advise and signpost professionals from a health perspective regarding concerns for children, young people and their families, assess information and provide an analysis of risk to inform the outcome decision.
Take a health lead in the coordination of Safeguarding Training, development, and other learning opportunities to ensure a wide understanding of the Multi Agency Child Protection Team initiative to encourage succession planning activity.
Work as an autonomous clinical practitioner who provides Trust wide clinical expertise on safeguarding issues, using lessons learnt in the Multi Agency Child Protection Team process to deliver face to face training to enhance colleagues understanding of the Multi Agency Child Protection Team process and Multi Agency Child Protection Team partners thresholds.
About us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Contribute to performance improvement of the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team and Safeguarding Team taking the health lead and for identified areas, where agreed by the team.
Provide coordination of, and participate in, relevant internal and external working groups and provide advice, expertise and support where requested.
Provide co-ordination of health services in respect of any actions for health as part of Child Protection enquiries, ensuring attendance at Strategy Meetings, Initial Child Protection Conferences, and Review Child Protection Conferences.
Provide relevant and timely advice and reports on the function of the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team to the Safeguarding Team for inclusion in appropriate reports.
Participate in Multi-Agency Group Supervision.
Undertake single and multi-agency audit when required and develop action plans to support change in practice in the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team and Safeguarding Team.
Work with members of the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team and Safeguarding Team to investigate the causes of any variance in Multi-Agency Child Protection Team activity and proactively contribute to the implementation of solutions.
Proactively participate to identify risks and issues with regards to the functions of the integrated team to facilitate resolution and/or escalation processes.
Record, interpret, assess and present health information and issues that can impact on the risk or needs assessment of child/children from a range of health perspectives. This may involve disclosing relevant information on the parents or carers in ensuring the information is processed fairly and proportionately.
Participate in the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team multi-agency risk assessment to inform the case management, advising where necessary and challenging decisions when appropriate.
Advise on improvements to current safeguarding arrangements through, analysis and audit, reporting and suggesting procedures to enhance the safeguarding decision making processes across the health economy.
Ensure timely and accurate information analysis and reporting to Trust Named Professionals and Senior Management on agreed areas of work.
Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise within the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team and Safeguarding Team.
Measurable Result areas:
Contribute to the strategic planning of Multi-Agency Child Protection Team and Safeguarding Team projects, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions and services, potential impacts of activity on wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.
Contribute to the development of performance and governance strategies and the development and implementation of improvement programmes, in accordance with Trust priorities.
Contribute to the short, medium and long term service developments, for Multi-Agency Child Protection Team and Safeguarding Team to develop and achieve quality outcomes.
Develop and implement data collection systems and protocols that will provide accurate and timely data safely and effectively with due regards to the UN convention for the rights of children, The Children Act 1989 and 2004 and the Human Rights Act, and also within the bounds of patient confidentiality and General Data Protection Regulation (2018).
Identify service gaps and issues relating to effective clinical pathways and /or cross boundary arrangements. Escalate evidence of ineffective safeguarding arrangements within or outside of the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team to the appropriate individual/s.
Contribute to the development of key Multi-Agency Child Protection Team and Safeguarding Team performance indicators for the successful assessment of individual and directorate success.
Communications and Working Relationships:
The post holder will be part of a co-located multi-agency team including Police officers, Social Workers, Trust Safeguarding Team, Administrative support and others.
The post holder will be required to maintain supportive and constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders and specifically health professionals from a wide range of services and disciplines.
Through liaison and dialogue identify and collate and assess the relevant health information to add to the multi-agency risk assessment.
Explain clearly and with sound rationale, highly complex safeguarding children information, to a wide range of professionals providing advice, support and supervision to Trust staff.
Explain and understand safeguarding risk clearly and with sound rationale.
Disseminate and communicate decisions and appropriate health information to all relevant health professionals where appropriate.
Share best practice on behalf of health professionals where appropriate e.g. Learning Events, Training Events.
Immediately report to the statutory Named Lead Nurse Safeguarding Children or the Executive Safeguarding Children Lead when issues require escalation or where the case is likely to become subject to press or public interest.
Record appropriate information about health outcomes on the appropriate Multi Agency Child Protection Teams recording system or/and the Safeguarding Team database on a case by case basis.
The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager including Safeguarding Training, Safeguarding Supervision and advice and support within the Safeguarding Team to support the Trust.
The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.
Assist in the evaluation and analysis of the health contribution to the Multi-Agency Child Protection Teams and Safeguarding Team within the Trust.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS/TRAINING
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience in safeguarding / child protection
- RN/RNC/RM/Specialist Community Public health Nurse
Desirable
- Teaching qualification or equivalent experience.
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Significant recent post qualification experience (minimum 2 years)
- Experience of complex safeguarding work
- Experience of working with children
- Experience of working within a safeguarding team/MASH
- Experience of managing own workload and able to work autonomously
SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Must have excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent oral, written communication report writing and presentation skills.
- Must be able to demonstrate ability to work confidently in a multi-agency environment.
- Must demonstrate effective concise and clear decision making skills that empower and support staff.
- Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of the need for confidentiality in all aspects of the work of the department.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Acorn House
Warwick
CV34 4RT