Vacancies

Specialist Safeguarding Nurse

Main Responsibility

The post holder will work as part of the Safeguarding Team to support the Named
Nurse for Safeguarding Children for Lancashire 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service in developing an integrated approach to safeguarding children and young people.
To work closely with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children in providing specialist
knowledge and advice to health professionals consistent with the requirements of the
 Children Acts, 1989
 Children Act 2004
 Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018
 Children and Social Work Act, 2017
 Care Quality Commission Regulation 13: Safeguarding Service Users from Abuse and Improper Treatment - Health & Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014:Regulation 13
 RCPCH Safeguarding Children & Young People: Roles and Competences for Health Care Staff (Intercollegiate Document 2019)
 Local Safeguarding Board policies and procedures
Identify service needs and develop, deliver and manage appropriate training in safeguarding/child protection both within the company and with statutory and voluntary agencies and support the delivery of the safeguarding training strategy
Maintain effective communication with VCL Named Nurses Safeguarding Children, Senior Management Team and Service Managers
To promote effective safeguarding practice by enabling practitioners to identify families
who are/may be having difficulty in meeting their child care responsibilities and ensuring
that these families are clinically managed through a high standard of evidence based
practice and safeguarding children supervision.
To assist in the development, implementation and compliance of safeguarding policies
and procedures across the organisation.

The Ideal Candidate

You will have a Registered Nurse or Registered Midwife qualification and educated to degree/ masters level or equivalent professional qualification or experiential learning.

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

You will feel valued as a Specialist Safeguarding Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including

•  AfC Band 7 with NHS Pension
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• 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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