Job Introduction
As a Complex Safeguarding Nurse – Specialist Support Lead you’ll be working as as a lead nurse and single point of contact for complex safeguarding and hold a small caseload of complex safeguarding cases, ensuring the health needs of this vulnerable cohort of young people are appropriately met.
You will plan, coordinate delivery, and evaluate public health Interventions from a safeguarding perspective, focusing on prevention of the escalation of complex safeguarding. In addition, you will provide clinical leadership and line management to a 0-19 Specialist Support Team. You will be aligned to one of the East, North or Central localities but may be required to work across the Lancashire footprint as required.
Main Responsibility
As a Complex Safeguarding Nurse - Specialist Support Lead you will lead on the complex/contextualised safeguarding agenda and be responsible for increasing the skills, knowledge and confidence of the Lancashire 0-19 service in complex/contextualised safeguarding.
- Manage a caseload of complex safeguarding cases, providing individual health assessments, ensuring timely referrals to appropriate health services a co-ordinated plan of care is in place.
- Deliver targeted health interventions following specific care pathways in response to identified need.
- Ensure HCRG Care Groups Lancashire 0-19 service children’s workforce has a greater understanding of the risk factors for children and young people at risk of exploitation through targeted training.
- Develop and maintain close working relationships with key agencies involved in the care of children at risk/vulnerable to exploitation.
- To develop and maintain close working relationships and work collaboratively with Specialist Safeguarding Nurses, The Looked after Children's Team, Team leaders, and CPLs across the across Lancashire 0-19 services.
- To be trauma aware and have an understanding of the principles of a trauma informed approach to care and the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on children, young people and adults.
The Ideal Candidate
You will need to be registered on either Part 1 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register as a registered nurse or Midwife and / or Part 3 register as a specialist community public health nurse.
We have built organisation-wide committees in many specialist fields. You’ll have the option to join your clinical specialism, networking with professionals from across the country. We get together regularly, auditing and sharing standard methodology for innovation and service re-design. You’ll be a part of the pool of subject matter experts bringing together clinical and operational leads. You will be a part of quality improvements, research and development activity. Here we recognise and celebrate clinical excellence and dedication.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
Package Description
As a Complex Safeguarding Nurse – Specialist Support Lead, you’ll be part of our valued team at 0-19 Specialist Support Team.
You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £40057 - £45839, Band 7 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions – edit as appropriate}
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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