Job responsibilities
Duties
and Responsibilities
Professional
Practice at all times within the NMC Code of
Professional Conduct
To provide high quality supervision to staff in
order to maintain and improve quality of services provided to children and
families in need.
To formally record the supervision sessions.
To work in conjunction with the Named Nurse and
safeguarding team to review and update policies and procedures.
To contribute to quality, audit and monitoring
procedures.
To act as a resource to staff in terms of support,
information and advice.
To contribute to the development of effective
communication systems within the Trust and other agencies.
Management
Provide specialist advice and support to all staff
within the Trust on safeguarding issues, policies, procedures and clinical
practice.
Collaborate with key professionals in the
development and implementation of safeguarding policies, procedures and
practice guidance as appropriate within the Trust and ensure that they are
updated to reflect both recent evidence based changes in practice and those
brought about by government policy and legislation.
Participate in the development of relevant
multi-agency policy, procedure and practice guidance.
Effect change within own sphere of practice when
and where indicated.
Making recommendations to improve services.
Influencing, motivating, supporting and enabling
others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of Bridgewater
Community Healthcare NHS Trust.
To liaise with professionals from partner agencies
on behalf of staff, when appropriate
Exercise leadership and aim to achieve high morale
by efficient management skills, good staff relationships and clear lines of
communication.
To work closely with staff responsible for
vulnerable children case management, to provide an independent and objective
overview in order to enhance protection of both service users and staff.
Assist in the Serious Case Review process,
specifically in the implementation of the findings and recommendations across
the trust. This will also include the
learning from internal management reviews.
Advise, direct and support staff in the preparation
of written reports in relation to formal child protection procedures and legal
proceedings.
Support and advise staff when attending court for
safeguarding cases.
Prioritise and manage workload in the light of the unpredictable
nature of child protection issues and enquiries arising, which result in
frequent interruption requiring immediate response and intense concentration.
Clinical
Ensure that safeguarding procedures are followed.
To identify and address areas of poor or unsafe
child protection/ safeguarding practice and highlight identified risks as
appropriate.
Collect and collate information / data as and when
required.
Manage the risk to the organisation in respect of
legal contributions to care proceedings by monitoring the quality of reports
and ensure that they are prepared to a satisfactory standard within the time
scales required by the court.
Support staff involved in the child protection
process by preparation for and attendance at initial / review child protection
case conferences, strategy meetings and other multi agency meetings.
Evaluate, assess and direct staff in the management
of safeguarding children cases.
Ensure that an effective system of child protection
supervision is implemented for staff within the Bridgewater Community
Healthcare NHS Trust and provide clinical supervision in accordance with
safeguarding procedures.
Engage in peer safeguarding supervision in order to
debrief and protect self from emotional effects of complex, emotive and
distressing child abuse cases.
Adhere to Local Safeguarding Children Board and
internal Trust Safeguarding policies and procedures.
Accept safeguarding information on families
transferring into the Trust area from health agencies outside of the Trust, and
allocate appropriately to staff whilst GP or School registration is finalised.
Provide a contact point for local and national
A&E departments to refer paediatric concerns and disseminate referrals to
appropriate professionals within the defined area of the Trust, in conjunction
with the Child Health Department.
Assist Trust staff in learning how to identify
children at risk of significant harm and where necessary referring the child to
appropriate agencies / services
Collate, present and receive information about
Domestic violence and attend both single and multiagency meetings where
necessary.
Provide safeguarding advice, guidance and support
to Trust staff supporting victims of Domestic violence where children are
involved.
Work in a multiagency setting, team or HUB or
rotate into such where necessary.
Non Clinical
Working with the Named Nurses, Safeguarding
Specialist Nurses and the Safeguarding Administrators operate and manage the
safe and effective receipt and transfer of all records where there are
safeguarding concerns within the Trust and maintain accurate data to ensure
accountability at all times.
Devise and use administration systems and
processes, both paper based and IT, to process, generate, update and store
patient information relating to child protection issues
Training and Education
Working with the Named Nurse.
Advise managers of identified
training needs for staff and self.
As part of the safeguarding service
devise, develop and deliver multi-disciplinary safeguarding training Trust
wide.
Ensure that training and practice is
evidence based.
Be involved in a range of
safeguarding training events.
Assume responsibility for the
maintenance of own professional knowledge and utilise a reflective and
analytical approach to practice.
Willingness to undertake further
child protection/ safeguarding related study.
Develop and maintain a safeguarding
resource system within the service.
Research and Audit
Working with the Named Nurse.
Actively audit and monitor
safeguarding practice for frontline workforce.
Ensure robust links with the clinical
governance lead for the organisation in all aspects of safeguarding practice.
Participate and lead (where
appropriate) in specific aspects of quality assurance within the area of
safeguarding.
Participate in record keeping and
report writing audits both within the Trust and on a multi-agency basis where
applicable.
Work in conjunction with the Named
Nurse to ensure the implementation of recommendations from serious case reviews
and internal management reviews to help minimise risk areas for the Trust.
Communication
Work in collaboration with the Named
Nurse to interpret and advise on the national and local policy documents.
Maintain effective working
partnerships within the key agencies in safeguarding children including Social
Services, Police, Health agencies, Probation, Education, Specialist and
Voluntary agencies within the local authority.
Provide and receive highly complex,
highly sensitive and highly contentious information where there are significant
barriers to acceptance from clients which need to be overcome using the highest
level of interpersonal and communication skills e.g. in hostile, antagonistic
and highly emotive atmosphere of child protection case conferences and
multi-disciplinary meetings.
Attend meetings as required on behalf
of the Named Nurse.
Standard
Information to be included in all job specifications
Information
Governance
Employees
of the Trust must comply with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 2018.
The postholder must not; either during the course of their employment, or
following termination of their employment, disclose any information relating to
service users or employees, or of the lawful business practices, of the
organisation.
The postholder will be required, when and where
appropriate to the role, to comply with the processing of
requests
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
The
postholder must comply with Trust policies that protect the information assets
of the organisation from unauthorised disclosure, modification, destruction,
inappropriate access or use and must pay due regard to the requirements of the
NHS Confidentiality Code of Practice.
The
postholder will be responsible for maintaining the clinical and or corporate
records that fall within the remit of this role to the standards in Trust
records management policies, and data quality processes and standards.
Postholders with elevated access to IT systems are
held accountable to the highest standards of use
Please see full Job Description attached.
