Safeguarding Staff Nurse/Practitioner

Job summary

The Band 5 Safeguarding Staff Nurse / Safeguarding Practitioner will play a vital role in supporting the Trust's commitment to safeguarding babies, children, young people, and adults at risk. Working as part of the Safeguarding and Acute Learning Disability Liaison Team the post-holder will identify and share relevant information with multi-Agency Partners to support the identification, assessment, and escalation of safeguarding concerns; ensuring that effective plans are in place to keep people safe and supported (bringing a specialist focus on health).

The successful candidate will work with the support of senior staff to provide advice, guidance, and support to Trust staff, promoting best practice in safeguarding and the application of relevant legislation, policies, and procedures.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

To assess, plan, implement and evaluate care working as a member of the Safeguarding Team under the direction of the Specialist Advisor on duty.

To be responsible for the organising and co-ordination of key pieces of work such as information sharing with internal wards, departments and within wider partnership processes such as MASH (Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub).

To support trust staff and partner agencies to understand safeguarding form a health perspective.

To exercise accountability as set out in the relevant Code of Professional Conduct

To be responsible for responding to contacts into the team for advice and support and seeking senior advice and support as needed to maintain high service standards

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Northumbria Healthcare- Cobalt, but works throughout Trust

Northumbria House, 7-8 Silver Fox Way, Cobalt Buisness Park

North Shileds

NE27 0QJ

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Northumbria Healthcare- Cobalt, but works throughout Trust

Northumbria House, 7-8 Silver Fox Way, Cobalt Buisness Park

North Shileds

NE27 0QJ

Employer's website

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

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