Senior Safeguarding Children Nurse / Practitioner

Do you want to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment, where no two days are the same? Are you passionate about Safeguarding children/young people? Do you possess excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work confidently and collaboratively across professional boundaries? Do you have experience in Safeguarding children/young people? If so, then your skills are invaluable to us and we would like to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Supported by the Operational Lead Nurse for Safeguarding Children to develop and promote a robust safeguarding culture across the Trust.

Ensuring that the Trust safeguarding arrangements are in line with best practice, legislation, and comply with regulatory and commissioning requirements.

The Senior Safeguarding Nurse will contribute to the safeguarding agenda through the provision of evidence based safeguarding practice, advice, support, supervision and training for all disciplines of staff across all trust sites.

Key responsibilities to further the Think Family and Safeguarding young people agenda in adult based services across the Trust

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification

Knowledge and experience

Essential criteria

• Advanced knowledge of the legislation, statutory guidance and best practice for child safeguarding and child protection processes
• Current experience of working with children/young people
• Proven communication and influencing skills
• Strong ability using a variety of Information technology systems, including Microsoft word, Excel spreadsheets, TEAMS and other systems to support team activity and data collection and analysis
• Skilled with using creative approaches for providing staff supervision and support
• Experience of developing other staff/junior staff and supporting their practice from
• Experience of representing the child’s voice in decision making processes
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team and with multiagency approaches
• Excellent knowledge of current local and national safeguarding issues for children

Desirable criteria

• Proven ability with negotiating and collaborating on complex issues

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to communicate well and build good working relationships with multi-disciplinary colleagues.
• Ability to analyse assessment information and identify risks of harm and abuse holding the best interests of the child at the center of all decisions.
• Ability to translate research evidence and policy into training and development for a range of staff.
• Ability to work for and as part of a team. Clear understanding of autonomy, boundaries and escalation in relation to safeguarding roles
• Ability to manage an unpredictable working day and reprioritise activity at short notice.
• Ability to support staff through safeguarding supervision and structured reflective practice to improve the outcomes for children.

Desirable criteria

• Skilled in using Microsoft office applications to support recording and analysis of service information (i.e Excel) and development of training materials (i.e Powerpoint).

Aptitutes

Essential criteria

• Is flexible and adaptable in a high-pressure environment
• Child/ young people centered
• Mobile for travel between office bases/sites
• Commitment to sustain on-going professional development
• Resourceful and resilient in an ever-changing and unpredictable working arena
• Positive and accepting of constructive feedback with a willingness to learn from experiences that arise in practice.
• Approachable and supportive of colleagues

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria

• Registered Children’s Nurse or Registered Practitioner
• Evidence of professional and managerial development
• Post graduate qualification to Degree level or working towards or equivalent experience in relevant area of practice

Desirable criteria

• Supervision qualification.
• Training Qualification.