Job summary
We are offering an exciting opportunity to join our Healthy Child Service, safeguarding children team.
We are looking for an experienced, dynamic and enthusiastic practitioner with a high level of experience in safeguarding children practice.
The post holders will work as part of a multi-agency integrated team contributing their expertise to thesafeguarding management discussions within the Multi- Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH).
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for gathering information from a wide range of health provider organisations. They will utilise their expertise to interpret this information and contribute towards the assessment of need, potential harm and risk to the child(ren). They will identify those services which are best placed to support the children, adults and families concerned.
The post holder will work collaboratively with partner agencies within the MASH to ensure robust, high quality, timely and effective practice to safeguard children.
The post holder will also be responsible for providing safeguarding advice, training and supervision to the Healthy Child Service practitioners and undertake quality audits. .
About us
From our offices in West Offices and Hazel Court, and with partners, City of York Council serves over 200,000 residents in and around York.
Local communities depend on the statutory services we deliver and our people are proud to keep York clean, safe, productive and resilient.
A strong council can also be an empowering force - transforming lives, communities and generations. We deliver lots of important but little-known services that are making a big difference to those who need them.
Every year at the council:
7,036 adults receive social care
77,000 people served in the customer centre
260,000 enquiries resolved over the phone
3,000 planning applications
5.5m tonnes of waste collected
1.2m metres of high verges cut
8,000 council properties managed
8,000 businesses supported
200,000 residents served
220 children looked after
For more information about working for the council or to see the latest job vacancies visit https://jobs.york.gov.uk/
Website:http://www.york.gov.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful post holder will have:
- Registered Nurse on part 1 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register
- Excellent communication skills
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of Information Governance, professional record keeping requirements, confidentiality, and consent
- Up to date knowledge, skills and competencies within the multi-agency safeguarding children arena
- Significant experience working with children and families where there are safeguarding children concerns
- Experience in effective multi-agency and partnership working
- Ability to build relationships with a wide range of colleagues
- Skills to support effective challenge when there are differing professional opinions on the management of cases
- The post holder will have access to support and supervision as well as peer support via the North Yorkshire and York Safeguarding Children Health Professionals Network
As this role is public facing, applicants will need to demonstrate, at interview, their competency to converse and provide advice and guidance to members of the public, in spoken English to CEFR level C2: Can express themselves spontaneously at length with a natural conversational flow, avoiding or backtracking around any difficulty so smoothly that the person with whom they are conversing is hardly aware of it.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful post holder will have:
- Registered Nurse on part 1 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register
- Excellent communication skills
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of Information Governance, professional record keeping requirements, confidentiality, and consent
- Up to date knowledge, skills and competencies within the multi-agency safeguarding children arena
- Significant experience working with children and families where there are safeguarding children concerns
- Experience in effective multi-agency and partnership working
- Ability to build relationships with a wide range of colleagues
- Skills to support effective challenge when there are differing professional opinions on the management of cases
- The post holder will have access to support and supervision as well as peer support via the North Yorkshire and York Safeguarding Children Health Professionals Network
As this role is public facing, applicants will need to demonstrate, at interview, their competency to converse and provide advice and guidance to members of the public, in spoken English to CEFR level C2: Can express themselves spontaneously at length with a natural conversational flow, avoiding or backtracking around any difficulty so smoothly that the person with whom they are conversing is hardly aware of it.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
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Desirable
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Qualifications
Essential
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Desirable
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Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Please see the attached Job Description
Desirable
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Qualifications
Essential
- Please see the attached Job Description
Desirable
- Please see the attached Job Description
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).
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
