Designate Safeguarding Nurse (Adults and Children)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Kay reponsibilities:

1.To exercise a high degree of professional autonomy and make critical judgments.

2.To provide clinical leadership of complex safeguarding cases, leading by example throughout the organisation and across other health and social care providers.

3.To make decisions where precedents may not exist in relation to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, and to advise and support colleagues where standard protocols do not apply.

4.To draw on advanced professional knowledge and exercise professional skills of the highest order. Provide expert clinical advice in respect of complex individual cases and be a source of expert knowledge on all aspects of practice in relation to vulnerable children, children in need, children in need of protection and vulnerable adults

5.Where appropriate, to develop a protocol for the contribution of health service staff to the assessment of children in need, children in need of protection, children in care and vulnerable adults and ensure that, where there are grounds for concern that they are suffering significant harm, these are consistent with protocols.

6.To work with partner organisations to ensure a robust framework of policy and procedure for protecting children and adults that reflect legislation, statutory guidance and professional standards.

7.To ensure that strategy and plans reflect the learning from Rapid Reviews and Serious Case Reviews and other relevant learning from safeguarding incidents.

8.To facilitate a partnership approach to safeguarding across the system

9.To provide mentoring, supervision and role modelling where appropriate.

10.To ensure that appropriate mechanisms are in place which will promote and sustain effective working relationships between staff in the primary care team and partner services and agencies in the development of child protection practice.

11.To work closely with the Quality Manager to enable a joined-up response to quality and safeguarding and design and deliver appropriate assurance and governance systems across HSC to safeguard children and vulnerable adults.

12.To work with partners to ensure independent contractors are compliant with their statutory responsibilities including training and are also aware of local issues and initiatives.

13.To play a key role in developing arrangements for consultation, supervision, development and training of all staff who are involved in providing services to children, families and vulnerable adults.

14.To support the work of the Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP) and ensure feedback to relevant professionals.

15.To work with those working to prevent abuse including: domestic abuse, substance misuse, parental mental health, contextual safeguarding

16.To notify the Director of Operations regarding serious incidents and high risk cases and other alerts/investigations.

17.To promote the inter-agency planning process for children and vulnerable adults in need of protection.

18.To consider ways in which national and local policy and practice can be developed to safeguard and enhance the quality of vulnerable adults lives and improve outcomes.

19.To work with the Named Nurse/Midwife to develop their roles in the supervision, development and training of all staff working with vulnerable children, families and vulnerable adults.

20.To participate fully in the work of the Safeguarding Partnership to ensure the direct linkage of strategy development, training and service delivery.

21.Report progress against strategies through personal representation at senior management forums and by written reports to appropriate boards and groups of staff.

22.Ensure that best practice is developed and delivered at organisational and departmental levels.

23.Challenge ways of working and persuade, motivate and influence other senior managers to realign their practice where necessary.

24.Lead, support and contribute to formal negotiations with senior staff from external stakeholders, providing a high level of negotiating expertise.

25.Provide expert advice in relation to the Mental Health and Capacity Laws in collaboration with the HSC leads.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse or midwife
• Masters degree in a relevant field

Experience

Essential

• Experienced and highly skilled specialist practitioner, with a minimum of 3 years post qualifying experience and recent experience in a senior safeguarding role
• Significant experience within child protection and adult safeguarding and the undertaking of child protection and/or adult safeguarding investigations
• Previous experience of chairing meetings and a high standard of communication skills, both written and verbal with the ability to deal with complex and challenging situations in a calm and diplomatic manner
• Experience in designing and delivering safeguarding training
• Experience of writing reports to a high standard following reviews of individual cases.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

States of Guernsey

Address

Princess Elizabeth Hospital

St Peter Port

Guernsey

GY4 6UT

Employer's website

https://www.gov.gg/ (Opens in a new tab)