Named Lead for Safeguarding Children

Job summary

The Sirona Integrated Safeguarding Team are responsible for ensuring that Sirona is compliant with all aspects of safeguarding expectations set out within the NHS England Accountability and Assurance Framework (2024), Care Quality Commission Fundamental Standards, particularly 'Safe', and Integrated Care Board commissioned quality outcomes.

This includes compliance with all appropriate legislation such as Children Act, Care Act, Mental Capacity Act and MCA (DoLS) together with a clear focus upon specific aspects of safeguarding practice such as Domestic Abuse, Prevent (Radicalisation), Modern Day Slavery, FGM and Contextual Safeguarding.

The team is responsible for developing, contributing and overseeing the safeguarding training strategy, policy and procedure development and oversight, supervision and support to staff together with quality assurance activity and proactive engagement with wider systems safeguarding partners.

Main duties of the job

Provide operational and organisational leadership for the Safeguarding Children agenda across Sirona care & health to ensure staff are aware of their responsibilities to safeguard.

Proactively support and facilitate a Think Family approach to safeguarding concerns and workstreams, promoting integration and collaboration across adult and child pathways as appropriate.

Responsible for the implementation, provision, evaluation and effectiveness of safeguarding training, supervision and advice across operational service.

Work with internal and external partners, responding to incidents, rapid reviews, child safeguarding practice reviews, and ensure learning is embedded within practice

Implement quality processes and audits, case file reviews and other reviews to capture good practice, effectiveness of responses and learning and to influence the development of service.

Be responsible for and manage the team of specialist nurses, including the Strategy Single Point of Access (SPA) team, and other professionals in complex processes in cases of sudden child deaths, child safeguarding procedures and contributing to case reviews

About us

Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas.

We are Sirona care & health - England's largest provider of Adult's and Children's Community Services and we'd love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.

Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days' annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme - just a glimpse of the benefits you'll receive.

We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation.

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.

Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different - we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.

Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find attached to this vacancy.

Employer details

Employer name

Sirona care & health CIC

Address

Badmington Road

Yate

Bristol

BS37 5AF

Employer's website

https://www.sirona-cic.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Sirona care & health CIC

Address

Badmington Road

Yate

Bristol

BS37 5AF

Employer's website

https://www.sirona-cic.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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