Deputy Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children (XR07)

Job responsibilities

JOB DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION

1. JOB DETAILS

Job Title: Deputy Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children

Reports to: Named Midwife/ Nurse for Safeguarding children

Accountable to: Head of Safeguarding

Band: 7

Unit/Department: Safeguarding

CSU Directorate:

Location : SJUH/LGI

AfC Job No: 3466(a)

2. JOB PURPOSE

The post holder will undertake the role of the Deputy Named Nurse for Safeguarding, acting as a senior Safeguarding Nurse within the Trust with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding providing day to day management of the Children and midwifery safeguarding team and acting as a central point of contact for, health professionals and partner agencies that have safeguarding children and child protection concerns.

The post holder will work in partnership with the Head of Safeguarding, Named Nursefor Safeguarding and the other Named Safeguarding Professionals in ensuring that the safeguarding children statutory requirements are met within as of the Children Act 1989/2004.

The post holder will demonstrate advance skills and competencies to influence the pathways of care in the safeguarding in children services. They ensure that evidence-based practice is inherent in all aspects of care. The role requires a comprehensive and sound knowledge base of legal literacy of Children Act and family law that interface with the safeguarding children agenda.

The post holder will in partnership with the Head of Safeguarding, Named Nurse for Safeguarding, Head of Children / management team lead in the development and delivery of high quality, evidence based services to children and their families identified as having safeguarding concerns.

Job summary:

To ensure the highest standards of safeguarding practice are delivered to the children and their families in partnership with all members of the internal and external multi-disciplinary team

To have responsibility for supervision of staff in relation to the delivery and maintenance of safeguarding children standards across the children department covered by LTHT.

Foster and maintain excellent communication links with other external agencies and professionals in relation to safeguarding children.

Be responsible for the audit of safeguarding practices within the children setting

3. JOB DIMENSIONS

The post holder will work closely with the Leeds Children Hospital, transitional services within the Trust and other services from across the region for all children and young people.

To participate in specialist education and training in relation to safeguarding to clinical and non-clinical staff across all teams caring for children and young people.

To provide professional and managerial leadership and evidence-based support to all staff caring for children and young people in relation to safeguarding.

To be knowledgeable of the NMC code of conduct and to be accountable for practice in accordance with that code, along with the Roles And Competencies For Healthcare Staff (2014)

To support the Named Nurse and other Named and Link Professionals in issues relating to safeguarding children.

Deputise for the Named Nurse for Safeguarding in their absence through attendance at meetings.

Support the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children where necessary to represent the Trust at Local Safeguarding Children Partnership LSCPs including attending LSCP sub-committees as appropriate.

4. ORGANISATIONAL CHART

5. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Qualifications

Registered Midwife or Nurse.

Recognised teaching/assessing qualification

First Level Degree Education/ Equivalent academic experience

Masters Level Degree Education (desirable)

Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development

Experience

Significant experience at senior level.

Extensive knowledge and experience of safeguarding practice and management at a senior level equivalent.

Experience of developing and contribution to audit processes and developing and implementing action plans.

Experience of standard setting in organisations

Significant experience of working in partnership with other external agencies to develop, implement and evaluate policies and strategies, including managing change.

Evidence of on-going professional development

Delivery of education and training within the clinical area, including innovative learning styles to enhance skills

Evidence of successful management of change

Skills

Possess and demonstrates strong analytical skills, literacy and numeracy.

Ability to evaluate information and data and interpret into reports.

High Quality monitoring /audit skills.

Ability to communicate across organisational and professional boundaries including challenging and difficult circumstances.

Negotiation and influencing skills and diplomacy.

Be able to confidently challenge practice of all disciplines and support colleagues in challenging perceived views offered by other professionals.

Be confident in conflict resolution and have an ability to think laterally.

Able to influence and develop effective working relationships within and beyond employing organisation.

Ability to give high level presentations to a variety of audiences and evaluate these and the presentations of others in the team.

Possess and demonstrate high level organisational skills

Competent and accurate IT skills.

Quality leadership skills and team management skills.

Ability to participate in, or lead research relevant to safeguarding.

Ability to interpret legal frameworks surrounding safeguarding.

Ability to develop policies and procedure, and good practice guidance as part of a team.

Ability to develop training in line with LSCP guidance and procedures

Evidence of clinical leadership.

Ability to support and advise the Safeguarding Governance Groupon safeguarding .

Ability to contribute to (via the Safeguarding Governance Group) the planning and strategic organisation of safeguarding services.

The post holder will have skills in the gathering and evaluation of evidence in order to safeguard vulnerable people.

The post holder will disseminate court skills and knowledge, where needed, through accessing Trust legal services and facilities

Knowledge:

Extensive and specialist knowledge of the Multi-Agency safeguarding children procedures as identified within the West Yorkshire Consortia Procedures

Confident with the Children Act 1989 & 2004, and able to confidently advise staff as to the appropriate management of safeguarding issues.

Confident with the guidance document Working Together to Safeguard Children ( 2023)

Extensive knowledge of clinical governance and risk management.

In depth knowledge of latest safeguarding research perspectives and implications for practice in the hospital setting.

Advanced understanding of the Data Protection Act (2018) regarding confidentiality and consent in safeguarding situations.

Understanding of forensic procedures relating to safeguarding incidents.

In depth understanding of quality assurance processes and ability to implement these.

Knowledge of relevant legalisation in relation to safeguarding children.

Understanding and knowledge of appropriate legislation that relates to safeguarding children and adults how this can be operated within a health care setting.

Personal Attributes:

Excellent interpersonal skills

Ability to monitor, maintain and lead on improvements to service delivery

Innovator

Enthusiastic Motivator

Assertiveness

Flexibility, adaptable and capable of lateral thinking

6. THE LEEDS WAY VALUES

Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

Patient-centred

Collaborative

Fair

Accountable

Empowered

All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values.

Additionally the following are core values which relate specifically to this post:

Commitment to ensuring that patients within LTHT are appropriately safeguarded.

Commitment to providing advice and information to patients and carers with regards to issues relating to safeguarding

Commitment to the clinical area, valuing the contribution of all team members, encouraging a positive and creative working environment

Commitment to maintaining safe and dignified care for all patients.

Commitment to working closely with service users and their families/carers

Professional image and positive approach to problem solving.

Maintain positive working relationships with others at all times.

Honest and fair minded.

Commitment to working across all internal disciplines and relevant outside agencies

Willingness and ability to travel around and between Trust sites and to key stakeholders across Leeds

Promotes a culture of equality, mutual respect and diversity.

Is regarded as having knowledge, integrity and trusted by others

Commitment to own personal and professional development and to the development of others within the team

7. CORE BEHAVIOURS AND SKILLS

Highly developed, effective teaching and assessment skills.

High level communication skills.

Highly developed, effective organisational & time management skills.

Ability to manage conflict effectively.

Uses initiative to resolve issues within own control.

Highly developed audit / benchmarking skills.

Strategically aware within own sphere of practice and the implications of this more widely in the organisation and beyond.

Effective team player.

Ability to act professionally at all times.

Risk management skills.

Effective change management skills.

Highly developed conflict management.

Ability to manage stress.

Uses initiative to resolve issues within own control.

Ability to act professionally at all times.

8. CORE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERS

Additional Requirements

Essential

• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Computer literate with accuracy
• Analytical skills
• Management of staff skills.
• Ability to organise and prioritise own workload
• Understanding of skills and knowledge required to develop and support team members

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Midwife/Nurse
• First Level Degree Education / Equivalent academic experience
• Recognised teaching/assessing qualification

Desirable

• Masters Level Degree Education
• Post Registration Child Protection qualification Specialist Community
• Public Health Practitioner (SCPHN) Health Visitor or School Nurse
• Willingness to undertake further training in line with requirements of role
• Relevant Masters study
• Experience of involvement in child protection education, training & development

Skills & behaviours

Essential

• Detailed knowledge of current midwifery practice
• Knowledge of current professional, local and national policies in relation safeguarding children, data protection and information sharing.
• Knowledge of key legislation, National reports and documentation relating to safeguarding.
• Experience of working within multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams
• Experience of undertaking audits
• Knowledge of clinical governance & risk management
• Excellent communication skills.
• Effective conflict management skills.
• Highly developed negotiation and influencing skills.
• Capable of lateral thinking
• Excellent communication skills and organisational skills.
• Effective conflict management skills.
• Ability to work alone, in a team and under pressure.
• Flexible and adaptive to changing circumstances.

Desirable

• Expert level of knowledge and experience of child protection practice and research
• Experience of both inpatient, outpatient & community services.
• Knowledge of both the Trust Safeguarding Committee and Leeds Safeguarding Childrens Partnership policies & procedures

Experience

Essential

• In depth experience of working with complex safeguarding children cases.
• Experience of multi-agency working.
• Significant experience in audit and standard setting experience
• Experience of managing investigations, including root cause analysis and complaints
• Knowledge of the legislation surrounding safeguarding children and safeguarding adults.
• Knowledge of clinical governance & risk management
• Significant experience at a senior level
• Delivery of education and training within clinical area Audit & Standard setting

Desirable

• Service development and/or change management
• Experience of managing allegations against staff

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

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UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).