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Specialist Nurse Safeguarding Children | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 27 November 2023 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £45,753 - £52,067 per annum incl HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 December 2023 |
| Location: | Frimley, GU16 7UJ |
| Company: | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5867316/151-HW007-A |
Summary
Are you an enthusiastic and motivated individual with experience of safeguarding children?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitably qualified and experienced nurse to join a dynamic and progressive Safeguarding Team at Frimley Park Hospital, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. The successful applicant will provide specialist support within the Trust in line with local and national guidelines.
The role involves working closely with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children and Adults, and other safeguarding team members. The successful applicant will be highly visible in this clinical onsite requiring on site presence to ensure that staff can access advice and support readily at the point of need. Important aspects of the role include undertaking audits, sharing learning, facilitating safeguarding training and attending safeguarding children’s meetings. The role covers a varied range of additional responsibilities.
The successful applicant will be required to adopt a flexible approach to managing their workload and will be required to be a good team player, with excellent communication skills and experience of working with multi-agency partners.
You will be joining a very supportive team.
The post holder will provide expert advice, support, supervision and training to staff within Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) on matters relating to safeguarding children.
• In collaboration with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding, support FHFT to discharge its statutory responsibilities in ensuring that systems and processes are in place that advice and support the practice of safeguarding children in line with statutory, local
and national guidance.
• The post holder will promote high quality safeguarding practice across FHFT and improve clinical standards, performance and outcomes for children at risk of harm within FHFT.
• The post holder will contribute to developing, monitoring and maintain robust children safeguarding arrangements and data collection to support internal and external contractual arrangements.
• Promote good professional practice in safeguarding children by providing a source of advice, support, challenge and expertise for FHFT staff.
• To work with children and their families to support them in their understanding of the safeguarding procedures.
• To contribute to an ethos in which professional curiosity, reflective practice and self questioning are accepted and actively promoted
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We brought together Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to create Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust on 1 October 2014.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
The successful applicant will be required to adopt a flexible approach to managing their workload and will be required to be a good team player, with excellent communication skills and experience of working with multi-agency partners.
• To identify any practice areas of systems that may place children at risk of harm. To work with relevant professionals to reduce the level of risk and inform and support the Named Nurse in the management of any identified risks.
• To support and advise all professionals within the Trust regarding safeguarding matters, in conjunction with other Named and Designated Professionals.
• To assist the Named Nurse for Safeguarding in developing and implementing the safeguarding children strategy.
• To assist with the arrangements and attendance of key hospital health professionals at relevant meetings, e.g. strategy/discharge planning meeting/Child Death Review meeting in a timely manner.
• To provide effective advice and support in promoting evidence-based practice in safeguarding work to frontline staff working with children and young people.
• To assist the Named Nurse for Safeguarding in completing safeguarding children reviews, individual management reviews, domestic homicide reviews and any other reviews as required.
• To assist with the cascade of updated procedures and protocols in response to national or local recommendations, policies and developments.
• To deputise for the Named Nurse for Safeguarding as required.
• To attend, when requested, Trust incident review meetings, to support the Named Nurse in safeguarding in constructing chronologies and timelines in support of Safeguarding Partnership Boards serious child reviews.
• Ensure appropriate action is taken when clinical risks are identified by self or a team member and that the escalation process is followed appropriately.
• To provide clinical leadership and professional support to FHFT staff and team members.
• Observe and maintain strict confidentiality with regards to any patient/family/staff records and information.
• Identify performance management issues in relation to practice, work with and support the Named Nurse to address these.
• Support and advise FHFT staff in their responsibilities about safeguarding documentation and record keeping.
• To assist the Named Nurse in the production of the Safeguarding Annual Report/quarterly reports and the collection of data in relation to requests by the wider Trust or partner agencies (Clinical Commissioning Group, Local Authority etc.).
• To assist with the maintenance of relevant safeguarding databases.
This advert closes on Tuesday 5 Dec 2023
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