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Clinical Nurse Specialist - Safeguarding Children & Young People
| Posting date: | 05 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £54,320 - £60,981 pa inclusive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 April 2025 |
| Location: | London, W2 1NY |
| Company: | IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7056486/290-CR-840 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
We are currently seeking a passionate and highlly experienced nurse with a strong background in managing safeguarding cases or situations. The ideal candidate will have some acute hospital experience or possess transferrible skills that will contribute to the our dedicated teams safeguarding agenda.
This role enables the successful candidate to develop their clinical expertise relating to safeguarding children and young people. You will gain experience within the role by covering all of our 5 sites. You will cover many different specilaities, including our trauma services, our specailist eye hospital, 2 accident and emergency departments, 3 urgent care centres, sexual health services and our inpatient paediatric services such as general medicine, paediatric intensive care and speclistist heamatology and infectious disease services plus many many more.
As part of the day to day role we will triage all children under 18 attendances to unscheduled care, liaise and information share with external agencies, e.g. health visitors, school nurses, social workers, integrated gang unit workers, social workers and Redthread, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of the children.
The team work a 7 day service between the hours of 9 -5 so weekend working would be part of the hours of working for the role
Interviews will be held on the 4th April 2025
We operate a seven day service 9-5 across five separate sites, one of which is a Trauma Centre.
We conduct training, deliver safeguarding supervision; attend and co-ordinate strategy meetings as well as attend case conferences and other types of professional meetings. Paediatric liaison is also a part of the role, therefore we also liaise out essential information to community healthcare services and are involved with multi-agency meetings and liaise with external agencies.
There are various aspects to the role, and we require flexible staff with an enthusiasm about safeguarding to help us work closely and creatively with the frontline clinical staff. This is to support them in safeguarding children, young people and unborns by providing expert advice and managing safeguarding cases.
We are an integrated team that comprises of adult and midwifery safeguarding specialists as well as working closely with learning disability staff, Redthread and a dedicated administrative team. Staff working in the role will increase their knowledge in various aspects of safeguarding and as a team we are ready to look at new ideas. The concept of Think family, Contextual safeguarding, adverse childhood experiences and trauma focused care is embedded within the safeguarding team and we are strengthening frontline clinical staff’s knowledge and response around these areas.
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview..
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
This advert closes on Wednesday 19 Mar 2025
We are currently seeking a passionate and highlly experienced nurse with a strong background in managing safeguarding cases or situations. The ideal candidate will have some acute hospital experience or possess transferrible skills that will contribute to the our dedicated teams safeguarding agenda.
This role enables the successful candidate to develop their clinical expertise relating to safeguarding children and young people. You will gain experience within the role by covering all of our 5 sites. You will cover many different specilaities, including our trauma services, our specailist eye hospital, 2 accident and emergency departments, 3 urgent care centres, sexual health services and our inpatient paediatric services such as general medicine, paediatric intensive care and speclistist heamatology and infectious disease services plus many many more.
As part of the day to day role we will triage all children under 18 attendances to unscheduled care, liaise and information share with external agencies, e.g. health visitors, school nurses, social workers, integrated gang unit workers, social workers and Redthread, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of the children.
The team work a 7 day service between the hours of 9 -5 so weekend working would be part of the hours of working for the role
Interviews will be held on the 4th April 2025
We operate a seven day service 9-5 across five separate sites, one of which is a Trauma Centre.
We conduct training, deliver safeguarding supervision; attend and co-ordinate strategy meetings as well as attend case conferences and other types of professional meetings. Paediatric liaison is also a part of the role, therefore we also liaise out essential information to community healthcare services and are involved with multi-agency meetings and liaise with external agencies.
There are various aspects to the role, and we require flexible staff with an enthusiasm about safeguarding to help us work closely and creatively with the frontline clinical staff. This is to support them in safeguarding children, young people and unborns by providing expert advice and managing safeguarding cases.
We are an integrated team that comprises of adult and midwifery safeguarding specialists as well as working closely with learning disability staff, Redthread and a dedicated administrative team. Staff working in the role will increase their knowledge in various aspects of safeguarding and as a team we are ready to look at new ideas. The concept of Think family, Contextual safeguarding, adverse childhood experiences and trauma focused care is embedded within the safeguarding team and we are strengthening frontline clinical staff’s knowledge and response around these areas.
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview..
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
This advert closes on Wednesday 19 Mar 2025