Job responsibilities
Key Duties & Responsibilities
Work with the Designated Nurses for Safeguarding Children, FFP leads and health partners to implement and embed systems to deliver high quality person-centred care with compassion, dignity and respect with good health outcomes.
Facilitate effective multi-disciplinary team working at service level, setting clear and measurable improvement outcomes
Expert health advisor within the FFP project, to share progress with the Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children who will liaise with NHSE to support with the roll out of the project across the country and to DfE.
Work with the Designated Nurses on the co-ordination of the funding provided from the FFP project for health for any additional posts required. As the project and model is in place there may be the need to support the development of business cases to access funding within organisations/commissioning.
Develop and promote a positive culture within all health organisations to enable continuous quality and service improvement.
Supporting the Designated Nurses for Safeguarding Children to write exception reporting and briefing papers.
Support the effective management of patient pathways through all the health organisations involved ensuring safety and best patient experience is upper most in all decision making.
Ensure that everyone within sphere of delivery is treated with dignity and humanity, understanding individual needs, showing compassion and sensitivity, and provide care in a way that respects all people equally.
Provide line management (including annual performance development reviews) to a small group of staff who have a dedicated role in FFP within the ICB if required.
Be responsible for the oversight and management of developing the new additional roles as required. The co-ordinator will work with the Designated Nurses for Safeguarding Children in getting these in place and supporting with carrying out the necessary HR processes and procedures.
Act as a line manager for the new additional posts as part of the FFP model and be responsible for recruitment, career development, performance and work evaluation.
Act as a positive role model, creating a supportive ethos to empower staff to contribute to the delivery of excellent person-centred care.
To provide consultation, support and professional advice on health matters and act as a specialist health resource for clinical, non -clinical health care staff and multi-agency partners, always working with the post holders competency, seeking further support when required.
Be an effective leader of change, embedding a culture of continuous quality improvement
Implement agreed systems to ensure the nursing workforce is fit for purpose in relation to statutory and mandatory training
Implement agreed systems to ensure the workforce is fit for purpose in relation to statutory and mandatory and additional training identified within the reforms.
Provide Clinical Supervision for nursing / midwifery staff.
To practice within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct ensuring knowledge and clinical expertise is maintained and developed within the scope of Professional Practice. to maintain a valid NMC registration
Take timely action when professional standards fall short of those acceptable.
Take action to address poor patient experience identified through trend analysis/complaints and report outcomes to the associated health agency.
Work with the health leads in aligning IT systems and developing new health documentation and information sharing policies and procedures as part of the implementation of FFP.
Lead on developing, implementing and evaluating FFP and health systems and processes including providing feedback on any implementation issues as they arise.
Lead a culture of continuous quality improvement through use of audit, patient feedback and reflection by self and within the health services.
Lead and be involved in service re design across all areas, analysing performance and identifying areas of collaborative working.
Lead in the redesign and planning for FFP across all health organisations involved in the model.
Develop and implement an effective workforce plan to support service delivery and quality standards.
Contribute to the review and development of roles ensuring they add value to the child and familys pathway.
Understand the practicalities of information sharing and seeking between and within agencies and how this can support effective decision making.
To lead from a health perspective on development of any Information Governance processes.
Ensure dissemination of knowledge and implementation of plans related to the organisations quality and safety agenda, supporting the preventing harm campaign.
Demonstrate by self and through designated service areas compliance to the pledges of the NHS Constitution.
Implement agreed systems to identify opportunities for learning and sharing good practice.
Lead on the development of necessary health policy development and improvement actions.
Take a corporate lead for defined projects or pieces of work within the FFP reforms.
Contribute to the delivery of the health economies strategic objectives across the health partner agencies.
Support commissioned services and primary care in developing and updating safeguarding policies and procedures in line with appropriate legislation, local and national guidance.
Work with the Designated Nurses, Doctor and Named GPs to support commissioned services and primary care in developing and updating policies and procedures in line with appropriate legislation, local and national guidance.
Identification of key trends or developments in practice relating to the safeguarding agenda, highlighting where further research and audit are needed.
Be an effective leader of change, embedding a culture of continuous quality improvement.
Implement and engage research and evidenced based practice to develop the skills of others.
Develop, test and report back on strategic and systemic integration with existing programmes and practice.
Develop shared practice framework to ensure all leaders and partners operating across family help, child protection and safeguarding communicate the importance of whole system working and embed a system wide families first culture.
Provision of Safeguarding Children expertise and leadership throughout the health economy and multi-agency partnerships
Foster excellent working relationships, at a senior level, on matters relating to FFP strategic direction, policy interpretation and implementation of the FFP reforms.
A high degree of communication and liaison is required of this post in order to develop and maintain strong working relationships and up to date knowledge and information across the health economy and partner agencies.
Operational Responsibility
The role supports the business in driving transformation as well as value for money.
The role is designed to build a combination of subject matter expertise and technical skills to develop a strong service delivery.
Financial and Physical Resources Responsibility
Budget holder for department/service and or project
Human Resources Responsibility
Day to day management; for department.
Manages team; develops project training programmes/ line manage
Information Management Responsibility
Occasional requirement to use computer software to develop or create statistical reports requiring formulae, query reports
Planning and Organisation Responsibility
Plan and organise broad range of complex activities; formulates, adjusts plans, or strategies/formulate long-term strategic plans, involving uncertainty, may impact across the whole organisation
Develops a range of plans/long term strategic plans for performance and service
Improvement in new areas across organisations
Policy and Service Development Responsibility
Responsible for policy implementation, development for directorate or equivalent
Develops policies for implementation of specialist programme across the organisation/sector
Research and Development Responsibility
Regularly undertake research and development activity
Undertakes complex audits/surveys related to programme
Freedom to Act
Works to general policies, has freedom to establish interpretation.
Interprets national guidelines for organisation
Analytical and Judgemental Responsibility
Highly complex facts or situations, requiring analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options
Makes decisions on a range of highly complex issues where there may be more than one course of action; interprets national guidance; expert in their field
Communication Responsibility
Provides and receives highly complex, sensitive, and contentious information;
Agreement or co-operation required; Presents complex, sensitive, or contentious information to large groups Persuades board, senior managers of the importance of the initiative/programme.
Negotiate with and motivate on project delivery, including linking in with other initiatives, Very sensitive information about performance and change.
Makes formal presentations to large groups
