Job summary
The post holder will:
- Be a visibleLead Named NursewithintheMACPT.
- Provide operationalhealthleadership to theMulti-agency Child Protection Team (MACPT)
- Bea proactiveleader and a positive role model.
- Trustseducation and training departmentand safeguarding partnerships.
- Ensure there is a provision ofday-to-daychildprotectionsupport and advicewithin the MACPT.
- Analysehighly complexfacts or situations relating tosafeguarding and child protection, providing an informed and professional judgement.
- Make informed recommendations about complex and unique situations
- Use inter-personal skills to achieve agreement across partner agencies.
To be accountable for:
- Ensuring safe and effective childprotectionpractice acrosshealthservices.
- Enhancing the child, youngpersonand parents experience
- Ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of thehealthorganisation's objectives
Please note, this role is a secondment for 2 years. We must have agreement from your employer that they can release you for 2 years fixed term.
Main duties of the job
- To ensure safe and effective safeguarding practice
- To develop the performanceof heath withintheMACPT's
- To ensure effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation's objectives
Please see the job description for full details of the vacancies duties
About us
At the Dudley Group our patients and staff are at the heart of all that we do and that is to provide a world class service that aligns with our vision of "excellent health care, improved health for all". We are seeking to recruit staff who share our vision and values of making Dudley Group an incredible workplace.
As part of the NHS People Promise, your wellbeing is our priority, and we are committed to ensuring our employees achieve a healthy work-life balance supported by our flexible working options and by making reasonable adjustments where possible. We believe no-one should have to sacrifice family, friends, or their personal interests for work. We are a modern employer able to attract and retain high quality staff through our commitment to the NHS People Promise.
As an employer, we foster an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and empowered to contribute their best. We want to ensure that our workforce is representative of the population we serve. More information - inclusive practice people promise.
Dudley Group offer many opportunities for our staff to develop and grow within their roles through our Learning & OD Team. These include topics such as communication, wellbeing, team development, cultural competency, and values.
Please click below to view our EDI page: Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion - The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust (dgft.nhs.uk)
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Degree Level or equivalent experience
- First level registration with Nursing Midwifery Council
Desirable
- Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Degree Course
Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Trust Values
Essential
- Able to provide safe, caring, and effective services
- Values and behaviours that reflect the Trust values of Care, Respect and Responsibility
- Commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that is free from discrimination and where people feel they belong and their contribution is valued
Experience/Skills
Essential
- Experience of leading a safeguarding service at Named Nurse level or equivalent.
- Named Nurse / Professional Safeguarding for 3 years
- Experience of managing a Safeguarding Child caseload for 3 years.
- Experience of facilitating/teaching to both large and small groups
- Complex reasoning skill
- Critical thinking, reflection and analysis.
- Knowledge and skills of a broad range of clinically and professionally challenging and complex situations related to safeguarding
- Influencing skills
- Suitability to work with adults/children at risk of abuse
- Use of databases
- Standard keyboard skills and knowledge of a number of IT packages such as excel, Word, PAS, e-rostering etc.
- Able to work under pressure across competing priorities
- Ambition in expectations of self and colleagues in delivering highquality care.
- Ability to work autonomously
Desirable
- Experience of working as a clinical/safeguarding supervisor
- Evidence of leading organisational change in practice
- Service development
- Workforce planning
- Data input, collection, analysis, audit and evaluation.
- Ability to utilise research and develop a research aware culture
- Knowledge of current NHS policy and their implication for services
Flexibility
Essential
- Flexible approach to working hours to align to service need
- Ability to adapt behaviour to changing circumstances evidence of a flexible and innovative approach to service delivery and development
Other
Essential
- Maybe indirectly exposed to distressing or emotional information.
- Use of VDU for the majority of the day
- Flexibility to work across different sites
Communication Skills
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal skills.
- Ability to communicate with senior staff within the professional, and other professions and patients/carers, on a range of highly complex and sensitive issues requiring both persuasive and empathetic skills
- Courteous and polite
- Ability to communicate with staff in respect of unwelcome news [poor performance, complaints and incidents.
Desirable
- Positive and enthusiastic role model
- Presentation skills to large and small groups within and external to the Trust
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Degree Level or equivalent experience
- First level registration with Nursing Midwifery Council
Desirable
- Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Degree Course
Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Trust Values
Essential
- Able to provide safe, caring, and effective services
- Values and behaviours that reflect the Trust values of Care, Respect and Responsibility
- Commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that is free from discrimination and where people feel they belong and their contribution is valued
Experience/Skills
Essential
- Experience of leading a safeguarding service at Named Nurse level or equivalent.
- Named Nurse / Professional Safeguarding for 3 years
- Experience of managing a Safeguarding Child caseload for 3 years.
- Experience of facilitating/teaching to both large and small groups
- Complex reasoning skill
- Critical thinking, reflection and analysis.
- Knowledge and skills of a broad range of clinically and professionally challenging and complex situations related to safeguarding
- Influencing skills
- Suitability to work with adults/children at risk of abuse
- Use of databases
- Standard keyboard skills and knowledge of a number of IT packages such as excel, Word, PAS, e-rostering etc.
- Able to work under pressure across competing priorities
- Ambition in expectations of self and colleagues in delivering highquality care.
- Ability to work autonomously
Desirable
- Experience of working as a clinical/safeguarding supervisor
- Evidence of leading organisational change in practice
- Service development
- Workforce planning
- Data input, collection, analysis, audit and evaluation.
- Ability to utilise research and develop a research aware culture
- Knowledge of current NHS policy and their implication for services
Flexibility
Essential
- Flexible approach to working hours to align to service need
- Ability to adapt behaviour to changing circumstances evidence of a flexible and innovative approach to service delivery and development
Other
Essential
- Maybe indirectly exposed to distressing or emotional information.
- Use of VDU for the majority of the day
- Flexibility to work across different sites
Communication Skills
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal skills.
- Ability to communicate with senior staff within the professional, and other professions and patients/carers, on a range of highly complex and sensitive issues requiring both persuasive and empathetic skills
- Courteous and polite
- Ability to communicate with staff in respect of unwelcome news [poor performance, complaints and incidents.
Desirable
- Positive and enthusiastic role model
- Presentation skills to large and small groups within and external to the Trust
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.
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.
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).
