Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust

Kernowflex Safeguarding Services Facilitator for Children

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Job summary

Kernowflex (Bank) Safeguarding Services Facilitator for Children Safeguarding

Zero Hours Contract

The role of the Safeguarding Services Facilitator is to promote, support and develop safeguarding practice within CFT and RCHT so that staff can achieve the highest possible standards in Safeguarding and ensure staff can recognise, response and report abuse and neglect.

This is a clinically facing which will work alongside front-line staff supporting and assessing their safeguarding competencies. This role will incorporate traditional training methods (face to face teaching) with new innovative competency-based framework model of practice supporting staff in Adult, Children's, and Maternity services.

To deliver high quality training to CFT and RCHT staff and be a role model for clinical staff delivering the basic and advanced safeguarding skills, this incorporates delivery of Safeguarding Skills training within Corporate Safeguarding Induction and delivery of Safeguarding Skills to ward and community-based teams utilising various educational techniques including simulation and blended training.

Main duties of the job

Promote, deliver, and drive forward CFT's and RCHT's safeguarding training agenda including the development of blended learning to support the delivery of education.

Develop and deliver safeguarding skills training including application of Human Rights Act in clinical practice, Self-Neglect policies and strategy, Domestic Abuse, PREVENT, County Lines, Mental Capacity Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)/Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS), Cyber Crime and Think Child, Think Family and other relevant Legal Frameworks, to meet operational and team priorities.

Delivery of introduction to Safeguarding training to all staff within Corporate Induction, and other mandatory training for frontline practitioners.

Ensure that training programmes meet with, and integrate with, organisational requirements for quality management, health and safety, legal stipulations, environmental policies and duty of care.

Keep up to date with developments and innovations in safeguarding training by reading safeguarding relevant journals and attending safeguarding skills up-dates.

Work closely with the Safeguarding Adults Boards (SAB) Learning and Development and Safeguarding Adults Review (SAR) subgroups to ensure learning from SAR's is embedded into the safeguarding training strategy.

To attend Regional and National safeguarding Networks and share best practice across these forums.

Provide support and advise consistently accurate safeguarding advice to services using relevant specialist knowledge.

About us

In return for your expertise and hard work, we offer a wide range of benefits including:

Competitive rates of pay with increments.

Access to the NHS pension scheme.

Opportunities to work across various departments and sites, gaining invaluable knowledge and experience.

Unsocial hours enhancements (where applicable).

A flexible working pattern to suit you.

Opportunities for further training (all paid for) and progression into permanent posts.

Paid annual leave quarterly pro rate of working time directives.

Weekly pay.

A comprehensive induction and ongoing mandatory training.

Plus, when you go home, you can relax in the most amazing countryside and coastal environments - work-life balance here in Cornwall is unrivalled.

Sustainability is integral to the Trust achieving the NHS Net Zero target. All staff are therefore actively encouraged and supported to implement new ways of working within their field of expertise.

Details

Date posted

07 December 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year pa pro rata

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

156-5893922

Job locations

Royal Cornwall Hospital

Truro

TR1 3LJ


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification attached for additional details for this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification attached for additional details for this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree in relevant subject or equivalent experience
  • Can demonstrate experience of teaching clinical skills to a range of professional in the clinical and/or classroom setting
  • Evidence of recent relevant professional development

Desirable

  • Current professional registration - Registered Nurse, allied Health professional or Social worker or equivalent
  • Teaching Qualification or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in clinical settings where they have support learners in practice
  • The ability to work without direct supervision, yet as part of a team

Skills

Essential

  • Excellent communication/interpersonal skills
  • High standard of clinical skills
  • Confidence to undertake and teach routine enquiry into domestic abuse
  • IT skills to include basic use of Word, Excel and PowerPoint
  • Current knowledge of developments in nursing and healthcare in general
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree in relevant subject or equivalent experience
  • Can demonstrate experience of teaching clinical skills to a range of professional in the clinical and/or classroom setting
  • Evidence of recent relevant professional development

Desirable

  • Current professional registration - Registered Nurse, allied Health professional or Social worker or equivalent
  • Teaching Qualification or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in clinical settings where they have support learners in practice
  • The ability to work without direct supervision, yet as part of a team

Skills

Essential

  • Excellent communication/interpersonal skills
  • High standard of clinical skills
  • Confidence to undertake and teach routine enquiry into domestic abuse
  • IT skills to include basic use of Word, Excel and PowerPoint
  • Current knowledge of developments in nursing and healthcare in general

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust

Address

Royal Cornwall Hospital

Truro

TR1 3LJ


Employer's website

https://www.royalcornwall.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust

Address

Royal Cornwall Hospital

Truro

TR1 3LJ


Employer's website

https://www.royalcornwall.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Nurse Consultant Integrated Safeguarding Services

Zoe Cooper

zoe.cooper2@nhs.net

01872255749

Details

Date posted

07 December 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year pa pro rata

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

156-5893922

Job locations

Royal Cornwall Hospital

Truro

TR1 3LJ


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