Job responsibilities
The primary focus of this
role is to work within the West Children Safeguarding Team and utilise
specialist knowledge and skills to advise and support CSH Surrey staff in terms
of safeguarding. This includes supporting practitioners in raising concerns and
ensuring that the relevant policies and procedures are followed in regards to
the subject matters.
Improve the quality of
safeguarding across the whole of CSH through the implementation of lessons
identified from case reviews locally and nationally, DHRs, and audits.
Provide expert health
advice to multi-agency professionals within Surrey MAP and support MAP
enquiries with health information appropriate to safeguarding children.
Provide health information
and support strategic decision making in Safeguarding Strategy discussions;
Child Sexual Exploitation and Child Criminal Exploitation Risk Management
Meetings and Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) meetings.
Provide support to staff in
the preparation of reports for and attendance at child protection case
conferences and other interagency/professional meetings as the need arises.
To support analysis of
health information and help identify vulnerable children who have accessed
health care services and ensure that the relevant health professionals are
informed and an action plan is identified.
To provide a robust and
safe communication system for the effective flow of information between
hospitals and community health professionals and other agencies.
To support the
implementation of standards, audit and initiatives to promote the safety and
well-being of children within CSH Surrey. Ensure that incidents that require
investigation are reported to the Named Nurse and the appropriate steps are
taken to report incidents in line with policy and procedures.
To support practitioners
and ensure that local Escalation Policy (SSCP and SSAB) is utilised
appropriately.
Support analysis and
evaluation of the health information contribution to the MAP and participate in
audit processes when working in the MAP and ensure that learnings are shared
and also embedded into practice.
Support a process to
identify need and harm and highlight children and young people who are known to
have repeated referrals with no positive outcomes or repeated missed
appointments and where required share with other professionals when working in
the community or in the MAP.
Ensure that administrative
staff process information to safeguard children in a safe and timely manner.
Deliver training to raise
the awareness of staff in terms of safeguarding children.
Clinical
Provide highly specialised
advice, support, and supervision to CSH Surrey staff on all aspects of
safeguarding children at risk including the raising ofconcerns, engaging in safeguarding processes and
providing reports for conferences.
Work alongside the Named
Nurse for Safeguarding Children to support any Serious Case Reviews, Domestic
Homicide Reviews, and internal investigations to ensure the lessons learnt and
action plans are identified, implemented and embeddedacross CSH Surreyservices.
Provide advice, support and
training to ensure CSH Surrey are compliant with the requirements of the
Children Act (1989 and 2004), Care Act (2014) and Intercollegiate Guidance
(children) and relevantlegislation.
Assess complex situations
and sensitive information relating to children safeguarding and support robust
risk assessment, care planning anddecision
making in line with relevant local and national policy andguidance.
Comply with NMC and CSH
Surrey record keeping and information governance legislation and guidance in
relation to confidential informationand
electronicsystems.
Support the Named Nurse
with providing performance data relating to safeguarding children
supervision, safeguarding concerns, Strategy discussions, Risk Management
Meetings (RMM) and MARAC data required and any emerging themes and safeguardingtraining data
Support the Named Nurse for
Safeguarding Children with the design and completion of clinical audits and
tools to measure clinical effectiveness and provide assurance, enabling
internal benchmarking and sharing of good practice across the organisation, through
analysis and interpretation of results/findings in regard to
safeguarding.
Provide
children safeguarding supervision for relevantCSH
Surrey staff.
Take the
lead for a specialist area for CSH as requested, e.g. DA, FGM, and Neglect etc.
Work
alongside the Named Nurses and wider Quality and Governance Team for
Safeguarding Children to support any Child Case Reviews, Serious Incidents,
Domestic Homicide Reviews and internal investigations to ensure the lessons
learnt and action plans are identified, implemented and embedded across CSH
Surrey services.
Contribute
to the identification of risks relating to children safeguarding.
Service and Police development
Support the Named Nurses for Safeguarding Children
with the implementation and leadership of discrete projects within the CSH
Surrey Children SafeguardingTeam.
Support the Named Nurse for
Safeguarding Children in the review and development of safeguarding to ensure
efficient, effective and innovative systems and practice are in place.
Support the Named Nurse for
Safeguarding Children with quarterly and annual reporting cycles/reports and
audit programmes as identified by the CSH Surrey Board, Surrey Safeguarding
Children Partnership,andother
relevant externalstakeholders.
Assess complex situations
and sensitive information relating to safeguarding and support robust risk
assessment, care planning and decision making in line with relevant local and
national policy and guidance.
Support the Named Nurses
for Safeguarding Children withthedevelopment
of safeguarding children policies, guidelines and standards for CSH Surrey and
ensure they are updated to reflect best practice as informed by safeguarding
case review, domestic homicide review, audits, new legislation and nationalguidance.
Be responsible for receipt
of reports of safeguarding incidents/risks communicating the information to
health care practitioners ensuring all the relevant issues and actions are
understood and that the practitioner feels able to deal with the situation.
Support the implementation
of and learning from National Best Practice and research as appropriate across
the organisation.
Education and Training
Deliver CSH Surreys
training and where appropriate multi-agency, safeguarding training as in line
with the Intercollegiate Guidance (children) and the CSH Surrey relevant
policies and procedures.
Delivery of CSH Surreys
induction, refresher and safeguarding training including FGM, Domestic Abuse
and Graded Care Profile
Work in collaboration with
the Learning and Development team to ensure training is evaluated with regard
to effectiveness and monitor training compliance to ensure acceptable levels of
compliance aremaintained.
Demonstrate high level
teaching and communication skills and the ability to facilitate learning in one
to one, small groups and largegroups.
Demonstrate competent IT
skills to support the development and delivery of teachingprogrammes.
Able to engage diverse
groups of co-owners at all levels within the organisation, tailoring
information to their specific requirements/needs.
Provide and receive
complex, sensitive or contentious information, where persuasive, motivational,
negotiating, training, empathic or re-assurance skills are required.
Knowledge and Skills
Maintain own knowledge and
skills and undertake training compliant with CSH Surrey policy and NMCguidance.
Engage
in professional development as part of CSH Surrey Appraisalprocess.
Advanced clinical
supervision skills to be able to provide clinical supervision to appropriate
CSH Surrey staff as well as safeguarding supervision on an ad-hoc, group and
one to onebasis.
Audit, Research and
Performance Monitoring
Development and report on
performance and audit as relating to safeguarding.
Conduct audits under the
direction of the Named Nurses for Safeguarding Children, including the analysis
of data, formulation of recommendations, writing and presentation of reports
and implementation of actionplans.
Contribute to the
production of quarterly and annual performance reports as required.
Undertake clinical research
in line with CSH Surrey requirement and sharelearning
as appropriate
Professional Development
Practice in accordance with
the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and all other appropriate NMC guidelines
ensuring knowledge, and ensure that skills and competencies aremaintained.
Adhere
to CSH Surrey policies andprocedures.
Establish and maintain
professional networks with safeguarding professionals in Health and wider
external partneragencies.
Undertake
further post graduate training/professional development asappropriate
Engage in clinical and
safeguarding supervision compliant with CSH Surrey policies.
Be accountable for his/her
own clinical/nursing practice and take reasonable opportunity to maintain and
develop professional competence, knowledge and expertise, including Post
Registration Education & Practice.
Help to create a culture of
proactive prevention and learnings from safeguarding incidents in liaison with
corporate and operational clinical leads by identifying and implementing
quality improvement programmes and initiatives to improve clinical practice.
Be an advocate for quality,
governance, safeguarding and risk management throughout CSH and lead by
example.
Communication
skills:
Able to communicate very
complex and sensitive information safely and at an appropriate level relevant
to the person receiving theinformation.
Able to communicate using
telephone, email and by any other identified medium in a safe manner compliant
with CSH Surreypolicy.
