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About
South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT) provides the hospital services to South Warwickshire from four hospitals:
- Warwick Hospital
- Leamington Spa Hospital
- Stratford Hospital
- Ellen Badger Hospital
We also deliver out-of-hospital community services to the whole of Warwickshire and beyond serving a population of more than half a million from various clinics. This includes our Community Teams in North Warwickshire.
What is a Foundation Trust?
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 March 2010. A foundation trust status gives us greater freedom to manage our own affairs, and makes us more directly accountable to local people through our Members, who are drawn from the local population and staff.
We are managed by a Board of Directors and the Trust is overseen by our Council of Governors. Find out more about our organisational structure and meetings and papers.
We continue to be part of the NHS and treat patients in accordance with core NHS principles – healthcare that is provided according to clinical need, not ability to pay, that it is free at the point of delivery, and that it meets the needs of everyone.
Our Members actively influence the progress of the Trust and help us to be genuinely patient-centred in every aspect. Find out about becoming a Member.
Multi Agency Child Protection Team Safeguarding Nurse
Accepting applications until: 08-Jul-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 08-Jul-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Acorn House
- Town
- Warwick
- Postcode
- CV34 4RT
- Major / Minor Region
- Warwickshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 2 years (Secondment)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 PA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Safeguarding
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is one of the top performing organisations within the NHS. Our staff think this is a great place to work and we hope you will agree. We have recently been rated as 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following our most recent inspection.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the whole county. This includes our Community Teams in North Warwickshire.
We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Over 6000 people work for the Trust and many of them have been here a long time. People find they don’t need to go elsewhere to find a fulfilling career in healthcare.
The first thing you will notice about us is how we take our values seriously. We believe that our values underpin everything we do. If you are interested in a role with us you need to make sure our values match your own.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide inclusive, safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Probationary Period
All new staff to the Trust will be subject to a standard 6 month probationary period, the details of which will duly follow in your contract of employment.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is committed to creating and sustaining a positive and inclusive working environment for all our employees. Our aim is to ensure that employees are equally valued and respected and that our organisation is representative of all members of society. We define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual – we value our employees, job applicants, students, patients and visitors as people. This is reflected within our values of being Inclusive, Safe, Effective, Compassionate and Trusted.
Agile and Flexible Working
All our staff will have a work base. However the Trust operates as an Agile Working Team therefore staff may be working from home on a regular basis as required by the service. However, occasionally travel around Warwickshire and into your base will be required so access to your own transport would be helpful.
The Trust also welcome staff to work flexibly and we would welcome the conversation at interview regarding flexible working.
Staff Benefits
The Trust offer a wide range of additional benefits to staff. Anyone who joins us on a substantive basis can assess things such as the Lease Car Scheme, Electronics Scheme, Discounted Leisure and Travel, Cycle to work scheme amongst many others available.
Car Parking
The Trust have recently completed the construction of a multi-storey car park at our Warwick Hospital site which has allowed us to reduce waiting times for car parking passes.
To keep up to date on our latest recruitment activity follow us on twitter @swftrecruit or look us up on Facebook (Recruitment - South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust).
Job overview
Warwickshire have been selected to join the Families First for Children Pathfinder Programme to design and test social care reforms which have been developed from the Government’s Stable Homes, Built on Love strategy.
As part of this programme, we are developing a Multi-Agency Child Protection Team that safeguards all children from significant harm, both inside and outside the home. The Team includes Social Workers, Police Officers, Education Leads, and Safeguarding Nurses, with strong links to other partners. Together, we are committed to creating a safer environment for children in Warwickshire.
The Safeguarding Nurse will act as the Health Navigator. While being part of the new and dynamic Multi-Agency Child Protection Team, they will provide access to various health professionals, helping to identify the right professional for each child and family. They will work with the Health Safeguarding Lead to develop strategic partnerships with services across the system. A key part of their role will be to navigate complex systems and challenge the status quo when necessary to ensure all options are considered.
The role requires a strong understanding of multi-service systems, and the ability to coordinate multi-agency efforts to safeguard and/or promote the welfare of children and young people.
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The Multi-Agency Child Protection Team has been designed to facilitate information gathering and sharing within a fire-walled environment. You will advise and signpost professionals from a health perspective regarding concerns for children, young people and their families, assess information and provide an analysis of risk to inform the outcome decision.
Take a health lead in the coordination of Safeguarding Training, development, and other learning opportunities to ensure a wide understanding of the Multi Agency Child Protection Team initiative to encourage succession planning activity.
Work as an autonomous clinical practitioner who provides Trust wide clinical expertise on safeguarding issues, using lessons learnt in the Multi Agency Child Protection Team process to deliver face to face training to enhance colleagues understanding of the Multi Agency Child Protection Team process and Multi Agency Child Protection Team partners thresholds.
Working for our organisation
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Contribute to performance improvement of the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team and Safeguarding Team taking the health lead and for identified areas, where agreed by the team.
Provide coordination of, and participate in, relevant internal and external working groups and provide advice, expertise and support where requested.
Provide co-ordination of health services in respect of any actions for health as part of Child Protection enquiries, ensuring attendance at Strategy Meetings, Initial Child Protection Conferences, and Review Child Protection Conferences.
Provide relevant and timely advice and reports on the function of the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team to the Safeguarding Team for inclusion in appropriate reports.
Participate in Multi-Agency Group Supervision.
Undertake single and multi-agency audit when required and develop action plans to support change in practice in the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team and Safeguarding Team.
Work with members of the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team and Safeguarding Team to investigate the causes of any variance in Multi-Agency Child Protection Team activity and proactively contribute to the implementation of solutions.
Proactively participate to identify risks and issues with regards to the functions of the integrated team to facilitate resolution and/or escalation processes.
Record, interpret, assess and present health information and issues that can impact on the risk or needs assessment of child/children from a range of health perspectives. This may involve disclosing relevant information on the parents or carers in ensuring the information is processed fairly and proportionately.
Participate in the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team multi-agency risk assessment to inform the case management, advising where necessary and challenging decisions when appropriate.
Advise on improvements to current safeguarding arrangements through, analysis and audit, reporting and suggesting procedures to enhance the safeguarding decision making processes across the health economy.
Ensure timely and accurate information analysis and reporting to Trust Named Professionals and Senior Management on agreed areas of work.
Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise within the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team and Safeguarding Team.
Measurable Result areas:
Contribute to the strategic planning of Multi-Agency Child Protection Team and Safeguarding Team projects, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions and services, potential impacts of activity on wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.
Contribute to the development of performance and governance strategies and the development and implementation of improvement programmes, in accordance with Trust priorities.
Contribute to the short, medium and long term service developments, for Multi-Agency Child Protection Team and Safeguarding Team to develop and achieve quality outcomes.
Develop and implement data collection systems and protocols that will provide accurate and timely data safely and effectively with due regards to the UN convention for the rights of children, The Children Act 1989 and 2004 and the Human Rights Act, and also within the bounds of patient confidentiality and General Data Protection Regulation (2018).
Identify service gaps and issues relating to effective clinical pathways and /or cross boundary arrangements. Escalate evidence of ineffective safeguarding arrangements within or outside of the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team to the appropriate individual/s.
Contribute to the development of key Multi-Agency Child Protection Team and Safeguarding Team performance indicators for the successful assessment of individual and directorate success.
Communications and Working Relationships:
The post holder will be part of a co-located multi-agency team including Police officers, Social Workers, Trust Safeguarding Team, Administrative support and others.
The post holder will be required to maintain supportive and constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders and specifically health professionals from a wide range of services and disciplines.
Through liaison and dialogue identify and collate and assess the relevant health information to add to the multi-agency risk assessment.
Explain clearly and with sound rationale, highly complex safeguarding children information, to a wide range of professionals providing advice, support and supervision to Trust staff.
Explain and understand safeguarding risk clearly and with sound rationale.
Disseminate and communicate decisions and appropriate health information to all relevant health professionals where appropriate.
Share best practice on behalf of health professionals where appropriate e.g. Learning Events, Training Events.
Immediately report to the statutory Named Lead Nurse Safeguarding Children or the Executive Safeguarding Children Lead when issues require escalation or where the case is likely to become subject to press or public interest.
Record appropriate information about health outcomes on the appropriate Multi Agency Child Protection Teams recording system or/and the Safeguarding Team database on a case by case basis.
The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager including Safeguarding Training, Safeguarding Supervision and advice and support within the Safeguarding Team to support the Trust.
The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.
Assist in the evaluation and analysis of the health contribution to the Multi-Agency Child Protection Teams and Safeguarding Team within the Trust.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Sometimes we get a lot of applications for our roles. On those occasions we might close the job early. If you don’t want to miss out we recommend submitting your application as early as possible.
The Trust use an Applicant Management System called TRAC which helps us manage the recruitment process. All communications regarding your application will come via TRAC (even if you applied via NHS Jobs).
Please check your TRAC account regularly and ensure your email is set up to accept messages so they don't go into your junk/spam folder.
We aim to shortlist all vacancies within 2 days of the vacancy closing, we will get back to all candidates ASAP.
Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address.
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is an equal opportunities employer who is committed to Equality and Diversity and does not tolerate discrimination or harassment on the grounds of any protected characteristic as defined by the Equality Act 2010.
All South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust sites are smoke free. We feel it’s a great way to help our patients, visitors and staff stay healthy.
The Trust is part of a ‘Foundation Group’ through a strategic alliance with Wye Valley NHS Trust, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. This partnership is great for the sustainability of all four organisations and allows us to share learning and maximise opportunities to ensure the delivery of high quality health and care services for our local populations.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS/TRAINING
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience in safeguarding / child protection
- RN/RNC/RM/Specialist Community Public health Nurse
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification or equivalent experience.
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Significant recent post qualification experience (minimum 2 years)
- Experience of complex safeguarding work
- Experience of working with children
- Experience of working within a safeguarding team/MASH
- Experience of managing own workload and able to work autonomously
SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Must have excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent oral, written communication report writing and presentation skills.
- Must be able to demonstrate ability to work confidently in a multi-agency environment.
- Must demonstrate effective concise and clear decision making skills that empower and support staff.
- Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of the need for confidentiality in all aspects of the work of the department.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nikki Bamber
- Job title
- Lead Nurse Safeguarding Children
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07787 272186
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