Deputy Designated Nurse for Adults and Children

Job responsibilities

This is a strategic function that will support the Head of Safeguarding/Designated Nurse to:

Inter-agency responsibilities

Provide expert health advice on policy and individual cases to statutory and voluntary agencies including health agencies, the Police and Childrens Services and Adult Social Care.

Deputise and attend as representative of the ICB/Health economy, as agreed, at Coventry or Warwickshire Safeguarding Childrens and Adult Partnership/Board and Subgroups; Police and Crime Board/Community Safety Partnership and sub groups, including Task and Finish Groups and other multi-agency meetings to provide advise advice and guidance

Leadership and advisory role

Work in partnership with the Designated Nurses in providing safeguarding specialist advice to NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Boards Governing Body.

Post holder will manage and supervise Band 7 staff within the team structure

The post holder will be accountable for their own actions and will be expected to use their own initiative to find innovative solutions to complex safeguarding issues whilst supported by the Associate Chief Nurse safeguarding. They will contribute to the development of ICB and Safeguarding Partnership policies and procedures.

Ability to identify emerging priorities and themes and take appropriate action to ensure Children and adults are safeguarded

Work with the Designated Nurse Safeguarding Children in the provision of safeguarding training and supervision across NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Boards.

Assist the Designated Nurse to provide specialist safeguarding health advice to the Coventry and Warwickshire Safeguarding Partnerships and Local Authority partners.

Work with all health partners to ensure that obligations under the Children Act (2004), Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018 (as amended) and the Care Act (2014) are met.

Assist the Designated Nurse Safeguarding Children in supporting the development of service specifications to ensure that they include safeguarding children and adults requirements.

Assist in the development and use of evidence-based practice, by the development of policy, audit, research, and local inquiry findings to influence and inform service delivery.

Assist in the implementation and audit of recommendations from national reports, local and public inquiries (including Safeguarding Practice Reviews/Safeguarding Adult Reviews/Domestic Homicide Reviews and local or alternate learning reviews) and from inspections

Assist in the monitor of safeguarding children and adult performance and training in provider and commissioned services to meet national standards.

Contribute to the NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Boards safeguarding strategy and safeguarding training its implementation.

Use evidence-based knowledge and research findings in critical decision making which involves judgements where highly complex facts and situations require analysis within a framework of clinical governance.

Assist in identifying and advising on professional development opportunities for safeguarding professionals to empower and facilitate development of expert practice.

Advise colleagues in health, children and adult social care on issues of medical confidentiality, consent and information sharing, ensuring timeliness of notification and consent.

Clinical and professional role

Provide advice and signposting to other professionals about legal processes, key research and policy documents.

Provide clinical advice, for example in complex cases or where there is dispute between practitioners. NHS Coventry and Warwickshire ICB

Support the Designated Nurse in collation and presentation of monthly Safeguarding Exception Reports for Quality, Safety and Patient Experience meetings; the collation of quarterly Safeguarding Dashboard data; ICB Safeguarding annual reports and contribution to the Safeguarding Partnerships annual

Attendance at Provider Safeguarding Committees

Co-ordination and communication

Represent NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Boards locally and regionally on the safeguarding agenda to drive innovative practice.

Apply knowledge of the Children Act (1989) and (2004), Care Act (2014), Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018) and other relevant legislation and statutory guidance and national and international standards in safeguarding children and adults.

Assist in ensuring that multi-agency agreements are implemented by health providers.

Support the Designated Nurses in ensuring the requirements for statutory joint and single inspections are in place, including taking forward the outcomes and requirements of any such inspections.

Communicate very sensitive issues which are of a highly complex nature to various audiences, including patients, carers, senior managers and also to large groups of staff when undergoing training. This includes providing and receiving highly sensitive information in regard to complex safeguarding cases.

Ensure confidentiality on all matters relating to patients and information obtained during the course of employment in line with data protection regulations.

Work closely with Designated, Named and Specialist Safeguarding Professionals in the local area.

Liaise, advise and support all partner organisations including third sector organisations across the health economy

Analytical and Judgement Skills

To provide expert advice, guidance and co-ordination to other agencies including childrens social care and the police in the event of action taken to safeguard children or adult in special circumstances e.g. children involved in complex and organised abuse, complex cases of fabricated illness, child sexual abuse, child exploitation, honour-based violence, trafficking, female genital mutilation, detention and within the Prevent strategy.

Lead on the completion of safeguarding practice review (adult, children and domestic homicide) and work in partnership with the GP Practice to collate reports to inform the statutory process

Governance: Policy and Procedures

Advise on the development and review of the commissioned service safeguarding standards for safeguarding children and adults which impacts across provider organisations and advise on its implementation.

Provide timely and accurate interpretation of national policy and legislation relating to safeguarding children and adults putting this into context for NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Boards and health providers to develop and contribute to policy and procedures across health services.

Contribute to practice and service standards through the development of quality schedules.

Assist the Designated Nurses and Doctors Safeguarding Children and Named GPs to develop processes to facilitate provider health organisations to fulfil their responsibilities to assure high quality safeguarding services.

Comply with the Care Quality Commission and other regulatory bodies on behalf of NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Boards to ensure compliance and take action where gaps are identified. Training responsibilities

To provide expertise on the development, review and implementation of a training strategy for safeguarding children and adults at Coventry and Warwickshire ICB

Advise commissioning bodies on training needs and the delivery of training for all health staff across the health community.

Training, development and creating a learning culture

To be responsible for the teaching or devising of training and development programmes in the planning and delivery of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency training in safeguarding children and adults.

In partnership with the Named GP for Safeguarding, support in the organisation and delivery of the Protected Learning Time events from Primary care staff to share learning from safeguarding partnership learning reviews to improve practice

In partnership with the Named GP for Safeguarding, support the training and development of the Primary Care Safeguarding Adults and Childrens coordinators

Supervision

Collaborate with the Associate Chief Nurse Safeguarding/Designated Nurse to ensure that the supervision strategy for the health community meets intercollegiate guidance

Provide supervision for the Specialist Safeguarding Nurses in the Health Providers and ICB staff with direct responsibility for care of adults and children (Continuing Health Care), keeping a record at CWICB..

Monitoring

Assist in providing advice to all organisations across the health community on the implementation of an effective system of audit, training, and supervision in relation to safeguarding children and adults.

Lead on collation of the ICBs Safeguarding Dashboard

Assist in providing advice to the Coventry and Warwickshire Safeguarding Partnerships in relation to the multi-agency safeguarding dashboards

To represent the ICB/health economy on Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panels, Safeguarding Adult Reviews, Domestic Homicide Reviews and alternate/local learning reviews, as required, and support embedding learning into practice.

To work with the Designated Doctors for Safeguarding, Named GP for Safeguarding and / or other designated professionals to identify gaps in commissioning and information sharing arrangements between organisations and individuals (incorporating the lessons learned from all Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews). To provide advice to all safeguarding professionals and managers working within organisations delivering health services across the health community on writing or contributing to reviews and within the new framework of Working Together 2018.

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Essential

• Professional Clinical Qualification (current NMC register) and/or Registered Nurse Specialist Public Health Nurse (Part 3 of the NMC register) or children's nurse (Part 1 of the NMC register) including evidence of revalidation and substantial relevant continuing professional development.
• Substantial experience as a Safeguarding Adults and/or Childrens nurse
• Have completed specific relevant post-registration training which includes training in the specific safeguarding of children and adults at Masters level or equivalent

Desirable

• Relevant Masters Qualification
• Evidence of safeguarding leadership training

Experience - Strategic

Essential

• Demonstrable substantial knowledge of current legislation, guidance and legal issues relating to safeguarding children and adults, with the ability to provide specialist, expert strategic advice and guidance to service planners and commissioning organisations
• Knowledge of multi-agency partnership working
• Demonstrates level 4 competencies and working towards level 5

Desirable

• Evidence of experience of service development and knowledge of developing guidelines, policies, and procedures

Experience - Clinical

Essential

• Have substantial clinical experience of safeguarding children and adults and demonstrates working at specialist or named safeguarding practitioner level.
• Experience of planning and delivering training.
• Experience relating to policy and strategy development and implementation.
• Experience of involvement in complex safeguarding cases.
• Proven skills in complex clinical reasoning and judgement skills within Safeguarding and LAC health care
• Proven experience of successful participation in and facilitation of teamwork and development
• Experience of strategic level multiagency working.
• Participation in statutory review processes.
• Proven ability in analysing and interpreting quality data and national policy
• Demonstrable ability to provide supervision and support for health and social care professionals
• Evidence of on-going personal and professional development through a professional portfolio

Desirable

• Good understanding of national policy and of the new commissioning architecture

Skills and Aptitude

Essential

• Proven negotiating, influencing and leadership skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary/multi agency team.
• Ability to use IT equipment for data collection, analysis, and the production of reports. Keyboard skills / Use of Microsoft Office
• Ability to write clear and succinct reports for internal and external use.
• Recognise the need for self-reflection and to engage in supervision.
• Ability to collect and understand data in order to effectively audit / monitor health performance
• Have relevant experience and skills in the clinical management of children including those with neurodevelopmental, emotional, behavioural and attachment difficulties and adult health issues pertinent to parenting.
• Demonstrable understanding of professional issues, their relevance and application across partnership working and experience of working with partner agencies to safeguard adults or children.
• Expert ability to analyse health and social policy and interpret implications for professional practice
• Highly developed understanding of evidence-based practice and clinical / service governance
• Commitment to promotion of quality and clinical governance mechanisms to maximise the health outcomes of LAC
• Highly developed expert negotiation, communication skills and the ability to work constructively with internal and external partners
• Ability to influence and negotiate with a range of diverse stakeholders and to build professional credibility both within and external to the ICB
• Ability to work under a higher degree of pressure to meet tight deadlines, both due to the often distressing and sensitive nature of the work. Frequent requirement for concentration and high level of mental effort.
• Proven facilitation and leadership skills across the partnerships of the ICS
• Evidence of on-going clinical supervision
• Ability and confidence to challenge poor practice and support improvement
• Ability to analyse complex information/problems and facilitate solutions

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Emotional resilience due to the frequent exposure to emotional and highly distressing nature of the work, and high levels of energy and drive to deliver duties
• Demonstrably high level of personal and professional autonomy and accountability
• 'Can do' approach to challenges and problem solving
• Ability to manage workload and identify priorities
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships and influence
• Ability to work closely with others from a range of organisational backgrounds.
• Political awareness including understanding commissioning and providing health services locally and nationally
• Ability to challenge and resolve conflict
• Ability to work autonomously on strategic aims and objectives
• Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to effectively and sensitively challenge areas of practice that fail to meet expected standards.
• Highly motivated with an empathy for and commitment to the objectives and core values of the organisation
• Aware of own strengths and development needs
• Acquired knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity taking into account and being aware of how individual actions contribute to make a difference to the equality agenda
• Understanding of Confidentiality, Caldicott and Data Protection Act

Other

Essential

• Ability to travel regularly between office bases and across the Coventry and Warwickshire area, this will include meetings and venues arranged by partner agencies
• Ability to work flexibly including home working in order to meet the needs of the service
• Disclosure and Barring Service check satisfactory to the ICB
• Occupational health clearance satisfactory to the ICB

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.

UK Registration

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