Job summary
Are you a dynamic and enthusiastic nurse with experience in the area of Safeguarding Children and Looked After Children, and working at a strategic and system level?
NHS Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care Board (ICB) is providing an exciting opportunity for a substantive Band 8b Designated Nurse Safeguarding Children and Looked After Children post.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide a key leadership role for Safeguarding Children and Looked After children across the Warrington Health Economy and Warrington Safeguarding Partnership and will be essential in ensuring that the ICB fulfils their statutory safeguarding duties. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate skill and expertise in Safeguarding Children.
A key focus of the role will be quality and improvement of safeguarding arrangements and the post holder will work with a variety of health and multi-agency partners to oversee this. Establishing and maintaining professional strategic relationships with Key stakeholders within Warrington, Cheshire and Merseyside and the Northwest of England.
This post may close sooner and without warning, if we receive a large number of applications.
For further information and/or an informal conversation please contact: [email protected]
About us
Cheshire and Merseyside ICB is a highly complex organisation serving a population of over 2.5 million people across nine Places (Boroughs including local Authorities), 17 NHS Provider organisations, 51 PCNs plus Northwest Ambulance service as well as third sector and voluntary organisations. Cheshire and Merseyside is the third largest ICS in the country, and regarding scope of organisations the ICS is double the size of the next largest ICS.
The successful applicant will be based in the geographical location of Warrington (one of the nine Places) and will work closely with the Designated Professionals for Safeguarding Children and Looked After Children across NHS Cheshire & Merseyside ICB as part of a wider enthusiastic and dedicated safeguarding team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be required to:
- Communicate and provide highly complex safeguarding and looked after children information across the Health economy to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Present highly complex information about projects, initiatives and services to a wide range of stakeholders in a formal setting such as the Local Safeguarding Children Partnership, Corporate Parenting Committee and Child Death Overview Panel.
- Commit to working and engaging constructively with NHS Commissioned providers, health services and other key stakeholders on a range of potentially contentious issues.
- Nurture key relationships and maintain networks both within the NHS and other networks such as the Safeguarding Children Partnerships, Corporate Parenting Committees and Child Death Overview Panels internally and externally, including national networks.
- Lead and coordinate the safeguarding and looked after children response to external and internal inspections such as: Ofsted, CQC, Peer reviews etc.
- Support collaborative working across health services, underpinned by appropriate pathways and policies to safeguard children.
- Assist with media management, especially in cases of local safeguarding issues generating media interest and where necessary liaise with media management of other agencies and partnerships to ensure a consistent media approach.
Please see job description and person specification for more detail.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of the NHS reform agenda as it applies to safeguarding children and looked after children
- Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (Part 1 NMC)
- Completed specific post-registration training in safeguarding at Masters level or equivalent experience
Skills
Essential
- The ability to build excellent collaborative networks
- Ability to make complex decisions quickly based on a range of factors including highly sensitive patient information which can affect the whole health system
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
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board
Address
No.1 Lakeside
Centre Park
Warrington
WA1 1QY