Job summary
The post holder will work closely with the Safeguarding children team and others across the service in ensuring that HDFT statutory duties and safeguarding children responsibilities to safeguard children and young people are supported effectively.
To work closely with the Specialist Nurse Child Protection and gather information from clinical records to assess and analyse risk in order to share the appropriate health information at safeguarding meetings. The Nurse will signpost colleagues to other relevant Health information/professionals where appropriate.
The Strategy Nurse will provide information to partners including signposting to appropriate health providers and services.
To carry out any other duties requested by the Locality Manager who is the lead for the Safeguarding pillar.
This band 6 Strategy Nurse role incorporates direct face to face working with the child and their family. Following strategy meetings, prior to any report writing, the impact on the child is assessed by the Safeguarding Strategy Nurse. Working directly with the family a health needs assessment and home environment assessment is completed and work priorities are delegated and supervised through the Locality Manager or Specialist Nurse Child Protection.
Main duties of the job
This post reports directly to the Locality Manager for the Safeguarding Pillar.
The post will link to Local Safeguarding Children's Partnerships.
The role of the Safeguarding Children Team is to provide a safe Safeguarding Children Service for all HDFT employees this includes:
- Advice and support of practitioners who have concern about the welfare of a child, from initial concern through the Child Protection process to legal proceedings.
- Provision of training in line with the Intercollegiate Document: Safeguarding Children: Roles and Competencies of Health Professionals (2019).
- Provision of reflective supervision.
- Support and promotion of effective inter and multi-agency working.
- Support of good organisational governance processes to provide assurance of a safe service including development of appropriate policies and procedures.
About us
At Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff. We support staff through benefits, health and wellbeing initiatives and opportunities for personal and professional development.
- An inclusive and supportive culture our Trust encourages staff to bring their whole selves to work and active Staff Networks identify areas for improvement.
- Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise staff with our Making a Difference, Team of the Month Awards & Colleague Recognition Awards Employee Support and wellbeing - we have a comprehensive Employee Assistance
Programme, counselling service and fast track physiotherapy service for employees. Staff Benefits - We have a range of staff benefits and schemes to support staff health, engagement, wellbeing and inclusion
Job description
Job responsibilities
The contribution of the health role will include:
- To attend strategy meetings and ICPCs
- Undertake home visits to complete Health Needs Assessments for children and families
- Confidently challenge partners when threshold of risk is not appropriate to safeguard the child/adult.
- To participate in daily Strategy discussions when a child is at imminent risk of harm.
- To take forward any daily actions
- To ensure a holistic health assessment is completed prior to ICPC attendance
- To support in the delivery of Safeguarding training within the locality as required
- To be a safeguarding peer supervisor for the 0-19 team
- To produce information for inclusion within the safeguarding annual report
- To co-ordinate and support the delegation of work to the skill mix safeguarding team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The contribution of the health role will include:
- To attend strategy meetings and ICPCs
- Undertake home visits to complete Health Needs Assessments for children and families
- Confidently challenge partners when threshold of risk is not appropriate to safeguard the child/adult.
- To participate in daily Strategy discussions when a child is at imminent risk of harm.
- To take forward any daily actions
- To ensure a holistic health assessment is completed prior to ICPC attendance
- To support in the delivery of Safeguarding training within the locality as required
- To be a safeguarding peer supervisor for the 0-19 team
- To produce information for inclusion within the safeguarding annual report
- To co-ordinate and support the delegation of work to the skill mix safeguarding team.
Person Specification
Application form
Essential
- Current NMC Registration and registered nurse at degree level
- Experience working with children and families where there are safeguarding concerns
- Experience in completing Health needs Assessments and attendance at safeguarding meetings
- Leadership and Line Management experience
- Experience in respectful professional challenge and up to date safeguarding guidelines
Desirable
- To have experience in facilitating single agency training in Safeguarding or supervisor supervision training.
- Awareness of cumulative risk and contextual safeguarding
- Experience of attending complex safeguarding strategies and meetings
Person Specification
Application form
Essential
- Current NMC Registration and registered nurse at degree level
- Experience working with children and families where there are safeguarding concerns
- Experience in completing Health needs Assessments and attendance at safeguarding meetings
- Leadership and Line Management experience
- Experience in respectful professional challenge and up to date safeguarding guidelines
Desirable
- To have experience in facilitating single agency training in Safeguarding or supervisor supervision training.
- Awareness of cumulative risk and contextual safeguarding
- Experience of attending complex safeguarding strategies and meetings
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
