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Designated Nurse Safeguarding Children and Looked After Children
| Posting date: | 26 February 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,972 - £68,525 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 March 2025 |
| Location: | Birkenhead, CH41 5AL |
| Company: | NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7035231/493-ICB-7035231 |
Summary
A Vacancy at NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board.
Are you passionate about safeguarding children and young people? if so, this might just be the job for you. An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the quality and safeguarding team at Wirral Place, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside as the Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children and Children Looked After.
We are an established team of professionals looking to address the safeguarding needs of population of Wirral. We are seeking a full time Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children and Children looked After.
The population of Cheshire and Merseyside is diverse and growing and we are keen to see that diversity recognised within our own workforce. As an employer we seek to open opportunities for our staff to gain new skills, gain knowledge and develop careers in heath and care.
The post holder will provide a key leadership role for Safeguarding Children and Looked After children across the Wirral Health Economy and Wirral Safeguarding Partnership. The role is 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 Wirral, 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: Julia.bryant@cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk
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 Wirral (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.
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.
This advert closes on Sunday 16 Mar 2025
Are you passionate about safeguarding children and young people? if so, this might just be the job for you. An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the quality and safeguarding team at Wirral Place, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside as the Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children and Children Looked After.
We are an established team of professionals looking to address the safeguarding needs of population of Wirral. We are seeking a full time Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children and Children looked After.
The population of Cheshire and Merseyside is diverse and growing and we are keen to see that diversity recognised within our own workforce. As an employer we seek to open opportunities for our staff to gain new skills, gain knowledge and develop careers in heath and care.
The post holder will provide a key leadership role for Safeguarding Children and Looked After children across the Wirral Health Economy and Wirral Safeguarding Partnership. The role is 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 Wirral, 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: Julia.bryant@cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk
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 Wirral (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.
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.
This advert closes on Sunday 16 Mar 2025