Named Nurse Safeguarding Children

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guidethat sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in your application

Here at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, were proud to be ALL HERE FOR YOUfor our patients, our communities, and each other.

As part of our commitment to fairness, transparency, and personal integrity, we ask all applicants to ensure that their job applications reflect their own experiences, skills, and motivations. While AI tools can support spelling, grammar, or formatting, we expect that the content of your applicationespecially personal statements and responses to role-specific questionsis written by you. This helps us get to know the real you and ensures that our recruitment process remains equitable and meaningful for everyone.

Thank you for helping us uphold the values that make our Trust a place where people belong, grow, and thrive. We look forward to receiving your application.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post.As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, please contact the manager named below.

Qualifications

Essential

• RN with substantial post registration experience
• 1 st Level degree in nursing or health related subject
• Evidence of relevant Safeguarding Children Qualification

Desirable

• Specialist Practitioner Public Health
• Masters degree or working towards
• Teaching qualification

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of significant direct safeguarding children experience at band 7 or above
• Experience of delivering safeguarding children supervision
• Significant experience in a senior clinical position with a proven ability to manage a team
• Experience of contributing to SCRs and the subsequent action plans
• Experience of successfully managing the implementation of change
• Evidence of professional leadership, leading to innovation in practice
• Experience of policy development and implementation and delivery of education programmes in single and multi-agency setting
• Evidence of involvement in multi-agency safeguarding children subgroups
• safeguarding children subgroups o Evidence and experience of implementing and coordinating safeguarding children procedures within a multi-agency team
• Experience of undertaking and contributing to single and multi-agency audit
• Awareness of issues affecting ethnic minority families and other socially excluded groups.
• In depth knowledge of children's health and development and the nature and impact of child maltreatment

Desirable

• Qualification in safeguarding supervision
• Safeguarding adults experience

Skills, abilities and knowledge

Essential

• Expert knowledge of relevant legislation relating to safeguarding children
• Evidence of current knowledge of local and national policies relating to safeguarding children and relevant professional and NHS policy initiatives
• Demonstrates in depth knowledge relevant to patterns of abuse and neglect
• Excellent communication skills and ability to provide written and verbal reports for safeguarding children procedures
• Confidence to challenge appropriately in difficult situations
• Well developed presentation skills
• Ability to analyse and critically evaluate information and record in a concise and accurate manner
• The ability to practice as an expert practitioner in relation to safeguarding children
• Effective organisational skills
• Ability to communicate across organisational boundaries
• Completion of audits and reports within timescale
• Facilitation skills
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• IT skills, word processing / database skills
• Ability to work under pressure, to prioritise, work flexibly and to tight deadlines

Desirable

• IT skills relating to Power Point, Excel

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).

UK Registration

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