Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust is a center of excellence in specialist healthcare for women, children, and their families in the West Midlands.

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Registered Nurse with significant safeguarding experience related to children and young adults to be part of the integrated safeguarding team at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

Leading the safeguarding team at Birmingham Childrens Hospital, the post holder will be responsible for providing visible leadership, knowledge, expertise and supervision in relation to safeguarding children and young adults. The post holder will provide core specialist child and young adult safeguarding advice to staff and will lead on areas of expertise and development across Birmingham Childrens Hospital and the 0-25 Mental Services - Forward Thinking Birmingham.

The successful candidate will be required to work with multi-professional colleagues from across the Trust and external partner organisations, including primary care, the Local Authority and other partner agencies.

Experience of leading change utilising continuous improvement methodologies and influencing practice, as well as working in multi-professional teams and across organisational boundaries is essential, along with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will undertake the statutory role as Named Nurse for Safeguarding at Birmingham Childrens Hospital in accordance with the role and competencies outlined within 'Working Together to Safeguard Children' (2018) and RCPCH Intercollegiate (2019) guidance. The post holder will provide expert advice, support, training, and safeguarding supervision to health care staff across the organisation.

The post holder will ensure the key functions of the Named Nurse for Safeguarding are undertaken for the Trust through:

• Effective leadership
• The setting, monitoring and maintenance of robust safeguarding arrangements and training programmes
• Collaborative multi-agency working
• Contributing to safeguarding governance

The post holder will be supported by the Head of Safeguarding and work alongside the Named Midwife for Safeguarding as part of our integrated safeguarding team, in ensuring the organisation meets its statutory safeguarding responsibilities.

This is a full-time post of 37.5 hrs./week unfortunately we are unable to consider less hours

About us

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families.

Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas. Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care. Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• List qualifications required include level of qualification and the subject required
• Registered Nurse/Registered Sick Childrens Nurse / Specialist Community Public Health Nurse
• BSc (Hons)
• Educated to degree level in relevant subject .

Desirable

• Masters Degree
• Recognised teaching qualification
• Safeguarding Children Supervision Course

Experience

Essential

• What level of experience is required for this post?
• Knowledge of Safeguarding/Child Protection legislation including: Children Act (1989 & 2004) Working Together to Safeguard
• Children (2018)
• Experience of lead role in managing cases with partner agencies in relation to Safeguarding/ Child Protection and Child In need cases including experience of attendance at Case Conference / Core Groups
• Experience of Multi-Agency working and development work in relation to children and young people.
• Evidence of complex case load management or management within complex, challenging health/social care settings
• Experience of Teaching and facilitating Individuals and Groups.
• Experience of providing supervision to individuals and groups.

Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes

Essential

• E.g. time management
• Ability to work under pressure
• Team member
• Able to work autonomously
• Good communication skills
• Ability to grasp new concepts and opportunities and respond to these with realistic solutions
• Ability to deal with confidential information in a sensitive manner
• Open minded approach to learning from experience
• Responsive to change and new challenges
• Assertive/perception
• Good analytical skills

Desirable

• Confident, positive approach to work
• Demonstrates ability to work well under pressure, has robust personal strategies for coping with stress and challenging situations
• Good presentation skills

Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge

Essential

• Evidence of on-going professional development including Specific post-registration Level 3 Safeguarding/Child Protection training
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Computer literate. Use of spread sheets, database, word, PowerPoint

Desirable

• Professional/Managerial
• knowledge acquired through post graduate level study or equivalent operational experience/Leadership
• programmes

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential

• Ability to grasp new concepts and opportunities and respond to these with realistic solutions
• Able to write reports and communicate findings and recommendations
• Ability to grasp new concepts and opportunities and respond to these with realistic solutions
• Ability to deal with confidential information in a sensitive manner
• Open minded approach to learning from experience
• Demonstrates ability to work well under pressure, has robust personal strategies for coping with stress and challenging situations
• Responsive to change and new challenges
• Assertive/perception
• Good analytical skills

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Birmingham Children’s Hospital

Steelhouse Lane

Birmingham

West Midlands

B4 6NH

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