NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board

Designated Nurse Safeguarding Children

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Job summary

The Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children provides safeguarding expertise and leadership throughout health and multiagency partnerships across the Liverpool geographical location and wider ICB. The role is pivotal to complex case management, improved partnership working, strategic planning, quality assurance and performance monitoring.

The role of the Designated Nurse Safeguarding Children is to continually ensure improvement in safeguarding arrangements across the health economy in partnership with a range of agencies and services across Cheshire and Merseyside. This role encompasses enabling Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board to ensure they comply with the statutory guidance for safeguarding children. Working with the other Designated and Named Professionals across Cheshire and Merseyside you will take forward the safeguarding agenda with a focus on evidencing improved outcomes for children and continual improvement to practice. It also involves working within the Local Safeguarding Children Partnerships, and Child Death Overview Panels to ensure that children are safeguarded.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to:

Communicate and provide highly complex safeguarding children information across the Health economy to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

Present highly complex information about projects, initiatives and services to a wide range of stakeholders in a formal setting such as the Local Safeguarding Children Partnership and Child Death Overview Panel.

Commit to working and engaging constructively with NHS Commissioned providers, health services and other key stakeholders on a range of potentially contentious issues.

Nurture key relationships and maintain networks both within the NHS and other networks such as the Safeguarding Children Partnerships and Child Death Overview Panels internally and externally, including national networks.

Lead and coordinate the safeguarding children response to external and internal inspections such as: Ofsted, CQC, Peer reviews etc.

Support collaborative working across health services, underpinned by appropriate pathways and policies to safeguard children.

Assist with media management, especially in cases of local safeguarding issues generating media interest and where necessary liaise with media management of other agencies and partnerships to ensure a consistent media approach.

About us

Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System (ICS) is a highly complex organisation serving a population of over 2.5 million people across 9 Places, 17 NHS Provider organisations, 51 PCNs plus North West Ambulance service as well as third sector and voluntary organisations.

From a demographic perspective, there are some real challenges within Cheshire and Merseyside. 33% of the population of Cheshire and Merseyside live in the most deprived 20% of neighbourhoods in England. In addition the population overall suffers from some of the poorest health outcomes in England. The postholder will be based in the geographical location of Liverpool. You will work closely with the Designated Nurses for Safeguarding Children, Designated Nurses for Children in Care and the Designated Professionals for Safeguarding Adults across NHS Cheshire and Merseyside as part of a wider enthusiastic and dedicated safeguarding team. The postholder will provide a key leadership role for Safeguarding Children across the Health Economy and Safeguarding Partnership and will be essential in ensuring that the Integrated Care Board (ICB) fulfils their statutory duties for Safeguarding Children.

Date posted

06 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£62,215 to £72,293 a year Per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

493-ICB-6974680

Job locations

Cunard Building

Water Street

Liverpool

L3 1AH

Job description

Job responsibilities

Provide advice to ensure that the range of services commissioned by the Integrated Care Board take account of the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

Work closely with senior leadership teams within the Integrated Care Board to provide assurance to the Integrated Care Board that NHS commissioned, and other health services are discharging their safeguarding responsibilities effectively.

Work closely with the other Designated nurses and Named professionals in supporting all activities necessary to ensure that Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board and health service providers within and across the health economy meet their responsibilities in safeguarding children and have the capacity to improve.

Support health services, to develop robust systems and processes to safeguard children effectively.

Be a member of the Safeguarding Children Partnership and Child Death Overview Panels providing professional advice on health issues.

Represent at Safeguarding Children Partnerships and Child Death Overview Panels subgroups, chairing groups and participate in statutory reviews.

Consult on single and multi-agency safeguarding training for all health personnel and support development of the Integrated Care Board training needs analysis and strategy.

To advise partner agencies regarding health issues, including policy as well as individual case difficulties

To line manage and supervise staff within the Safeguarding Children service as appropriate.

Advice on the need and appropriate models for appropriate safeguarding supervision at all levels within NHS commissioned and other health services.

Provide a model of supervision for Named Professionals.

Receive supervision from an appropriate source.

Ensure all staff have relevant Personal Development Plans, knowledge and skills framework outlines, according to the KSF, and use information from staffs PDRs to ensure future training and service needs are supported.

Forge close positive working relationships, in order to support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHS objectives.

Analyze, interpret and present data to highlight issues, risks and support decision making.

Liaise with local education providers to ensure that there is an appropriate safeguarding children content within pre-registration/ undergraduate/ postgraduate training programmes and strengthen links.

To develop an Integrated Care Board training needs analysis and an implementation plan and support the development of a system to monitor uptake

Quality assure training needs analyses and implementation plans of NHS commissioned providers to ensure they meet current practice standards.

Play an active part in the planning of multi-agency training through Safeguarding Children Partnerships and Child Death Overview Panels and other multi agency strategic boards and partnership

To contribute to the Integrated Care Board commissioning plans for children and families to ensure that commissioned services take account of the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and that any relevant learning is incorporated into plans.

Provide advice on the monitoring of the safeguarding aspects of Integrated Care Board commissioned contracts.

Will be responsible with the other designated nurses for ensuring that the health components of statutory procedures across the local authorities are reviewed and updated at appropriate intervals.

The designated nurse will have fully delegated responsibilities and be accountable to the Associate Director of Quality & Safety Improvement, Liverpool Place and responsible to the Head of Quality & Safety Improvement.

A strong working relationship with the C&M ICB Head of Safeguarding will be required.