We are looking for an experienced, dynamic practitioner passionate about safeguarding children and looked after children who has strong leadership skills or feels ready to be taking the next step in their career progression.

We are an emerging All Age Safeguarding team who provide support, advice, guidance and training to all staff across the Trust. This role will be to provide expert specialist knowledge, advice, clinical leadership and undertake statutory duties as a Named Nurse , acting as a role model of exemplary practice to team members. You will be based at Buckland Hospital but expected to work on all Trust sites.

Main duties of the job

Operational management of the child part of the team.

Undertake training and leadership and management training to enable you to fulfil the requirements of Named Nurse role

Being part of the leadership structure for the All Age service, support both new and existing staff to gain/develop safeguarding knowledge, skills and expertise

Work as a Safeguarding Child practitioner undertaking duty, training, supervision, report writing.

Undertake Child Safeguarding Practice reviews, Domestic Homicide Reviews

Working Closely with our Multi Agency partners for safeguarding and looked after children and adults but also in addition for Domestic Abuse

About us

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with three acute hospitals and community sites serving a local population of around 700,000.We also provide specialist services for Kent and Medway.

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 695,000 people.

Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'.

We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

Operational management of the child part of the team.

Undertake training and leadership and management training to enable you to fulfil the requirements of Named Nurse role

Being part of the leadership structure for the All Age service, support both new and existing staff to gain/develop safeguarding knowledge, skills and expertise

Work as a Safeguarding Child practitioner undertaking duty, training, supervision, report writing.

Undertake Child Safeguarding Practice reviews, Domestic Homicide Reviews

Working Closely with our Multi Agency partners for safeguarding and looked after children and adults but also in addition for Domestic Abuse

Support the safeguarding team to fulfil their multi -agency responsibilities as required by the Kent Safeguarding Children Multi Agency Partnership and Kent and Medway Adult Safeguarding Board

Developing awareness of trauma informed practice across the Trust

Participate in the development of safeguarding and looked after children related policies and guidelines.

Promote the Think Family agenda across all safeguarding working with the Named professionals to embed the paramountcy of the child and make safeguarding personal

Provide advice and act as a resource to other departments within the Trust for safeguarding children and looked after children.

Build strong and collaborative relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to achieve secure goals and objectives based on a foundation of self- awareness and emotional intelligence.

Communicate very sensitive, complex condition related information to patients, relatives, colleagues providing empathy and reassurance.

Working collaboratively with the senior nursing team and the Trust Safeguarding team to ensure there is effective education, supervision, oversight, completion of statutory safeguarding processes and service development.

Support activities necessary for the Trust to meet its responsibilities for looked after CYP

Work within the guidelines and standards set by the NMC, and abide by Trust Policies and Procedures. The post holder will ensure compliance with the Trusts Risk Management Policies and Procedures. These describe the Trusts commitment to risk management, the recognition that our aim is to protect patients, staff and visitors from harm, and stress that all staff have a responsibility to minimise risk.

Managers who have responsibility for supervising/managing people must comply with the guidelines that can be found in the Code of Conduct for NHS Managers

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Registered Nurse , Midwife or RN Adult with Specialist Community Public Health with child and family focus at degree level

Desirable

• evidence of post registration study
• training qualification
• leadership or management qualifications

Clinical Skills and experience

Essential

• 5 years experience with 2 years experience working in safeguarding at Band 7 or above
• Experience of designing and delivering safeguarding training
• Expert knowledge of Children Act (1989 and 2004), Working Together 2023 and NICE guidance for looked after children and young people 2021
• Continuous quality improvement. Experience in managing change. Expert clinical skills Communication skills Facilitation skills
• Staff development and empowerment.
• Negotiating and influencing skills

Desirable

• Experience of previously managing a team
• Participation in audit
• Experience of Safeguarding Safeguarding in the Acute setting
• Previous experience of completion of child safeguarding practice reviews

Governance

Essential

• Knowledge and understanding in clinical governance
• Understanding of risk management
• Experience of safeguarding investigations, RCAs, SIs

Desirable

• Working knowledge of HSIB investigation process

Personal/Professional attributes

Essential

• Highly developed communication skills , written and verbal
• Flexible highly motivated self directed practitioner with excellent organisational skills.
• Well-developed facilitation and influencing skills, effective negotiation and conflict management skills.
• Cope under pressure in order to meet deadlines.
• Calm under pressure and ability to lead a team.

Other

Essential

• Good level of IT skills
• Ability to travel between sites

Employer details

Employer name

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Buckland Hospital

Coombe Valley Road

Dover

CT17 0HD

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