Lead Nurse Safeguarding Children and Young People
- Employer
- Finegreen
- Location
- London
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 25 Sep 2024
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- Sector
- Acute Trust
- Job Type
- Contract
- Category
- Nursing
Job Details
You will need to have recent experience working at Named Nurse level or above, covering Children and Young People Safeguarding will need to be an expert practitioner within this area.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Ensure that the organisation meets its safeguarding responsibilities regarding children, young people, and families within the care of acute and community services;
- Be a role model for all nurses and midwives by practising safeguarding to the highest standard, whilst exercising a high degree of personal and professional autonomy;
- Providing formal, regular and structured safeguarding supervision to junior members of the safeguarding team in line with supervision policies;
- Promoting the visibility of the children’s safeguarding team ensuring liaison daily with paediatric ward areas and those adult wards where adolescents have been admitted;
- Advising on clinical practice in complex cases;
- Participating in Safeguarding Children Learning Practice Reviews and Case Audits, making recommendations for action plans;
- Being responsible for ensuring that Internal Management Reviews and Case Chronologies are reviewed in order to initiate, conduct and evaluate Practice Reviews regarding child deaths or areas of public interest in relation to child welfare under part 8 Working Together to Safeguard Children (2010);
- Providing evidence based clinical advice on all aspects of practice in relation to vulnerable children/children in need/children at significant harm;
- Effectively communicating highly complex, sensitive, distressing information concerning safeguarding children to appropriate colleagues in a variety of disciplines and teams;
- Inspiring colleagues to improve standards and quality of care and to develop professional practice in safeguarding;
- Current NMC registration as RSCN/Midwife/Health Visitor or Community Public Health Nurse;
- Evidenced by career background, 5 years + experience working specifically in a dedicated Safeguarding role at Named Nurse level or above;
- Detailed and thorough knowledge of safeguarding children agenda;
- Demonstrable leadership skills, with excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiation and
- influencing skills demonstrated by the ability to engage others in challenged situations.
Company
Put simply, we help our clients to recruit the best possible people to lead, manage and direct their organisations. Since launching in 2005 we have become an award winning, market-leading consultancy focusing on both public and private sector Healthcare recruitment.
Leadership skills have rarely been at such a premium - as organisations across both public and private sectors attempt to improve services and standards at a time of widespread change and unprecedented financial constraints.
Like other leading executive recruiters, Finegreen has developed a pool of talent built up over many years, along with established networks, to ensure that right-match candidates get to hear about relevant positions. Where Finegreen differs from many others, is in its willingness to spend quality time with clients - to gain an in-depth knowledge of roles being filled and their importance to an organisation.
Over the last 17 years in the Healthcare market, Finegreen has developed into a Virgin Fast Track top 100 company - and was voted Recruiter of the Year at the Health Investor Awards, Top small to medium sized business at the Best Business Awards, and featured in Recruiter’s Top 10 Public Sector Recruitment providers.
- Website
- http://www.finegreen.co.uk/
- Telephone
- 0345 130 4006
- Location
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Finegreen
Manchester
Lancashire
M12 6JH
United Kingdom
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