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Coventry & Warwickshire Integrated Care Board
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NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board is responsible for commissioning health and care services on behalf of people in Coventry and Warwickshire.
We are passionate about working together with our health and social care partners to ensure services are integrated, seamless and offer a high-quality patient experience. We thrive on building strong relationships patients, communities, partners and providers
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Deputy Designated Nurse Safeguarding Children and Adults
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Key details
Location
- Site
- Shire Hall
- Address
- Market St
- Town
- Warwick
- Postcode
- CV34 4DE
- Major / Minor Region
- Warwickshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (annualised hours)
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Annualised hours
Salary
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Nursing- Safeguarding Adults and Children
Job overview
The post holder will support the Associate Chief Nurse Safeguarding/Designated Nurse at NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board working alongside other safeguarding team members on all aspects of the health services contribution to safeguarding across the area.
The post holder will play a key role in supporting the ICB to ensure compliance with its statutory responsibilities under the Care Act (2014) and the Children Act (2004) and as a statutory partner of the Local Safeguarding Adult Board and Children Partnership.
The key function of ICB is to commission high quality, effective services for its population and the post holder will play a key role in this.
The role is supportive and helps the ICB to fulfil its statutory system-wide duties, as described in Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018, Safeguarding Vulnerable People in the NHS - Accountability and Assurance Framework 2019 (as amended).
Working within a multi-professional / agency context the post-holder will provide expert advice on safeguarding issues within the framework of the Care Act 2014. This role includes a specific requirement to advise on the Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and Court of Protection applications.
The Deputy Designated Nurse will support on all aspects of safeguarding children and adults.
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This is a strategic function that will support the Head of Safeguarding/Designated Nurse to:
Inter-agency responsibilities
- Provide expert health advice on policy and individual cases to statutory and voluntary agencies including health agencies, the Police and Children’s Services and Adult Social Care.
- Deputise and attend as representative of the ICB/Health economy, as agreed, at Coventry or Warwickshire Safeguarding Children's and Adult Partnership/Board and Sub Groups; Police and Crime Board/Community Safety Partnership and sub groups, including Task and Finish Groups and other multi-agency meetings to provide advise advice and guidance
- Participate in highly complex strategy meeting/discussions to offer expert advice on risk management and care plannin
Working for our organisation
Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is responsible for commissioning NHS services on behalf of people in Coventry and Warwickshire. In consultation with local partners, it plans the delivery of services in a way that both meets local health and care needs and reduces inequalities between different groups. The purpose of our ICB is to bring partner organisations together to:
1. improve outcomes in population health and healthcare
2. tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access
3. enhance productivity and value for money
4. help the NHS support broader social and economic development.
As an Integrated Care System we have agreed a common vision as well as the principles of how partners will work together. This is underpinned by the Health and Wellbeing Concordat for Coventry and Warwickshire.
This Concordat was agreed by our two Health and Wellbeing Boards and sets out our goal to enable people across Coventry and Warwickshire to pursue happy, healthy lives and put people and communities at the heart of everything we do.
Our vision is more than just an aspiration, it is the driver for real change across Coventry and Warwickshire.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Professional Clinical Qualification (current NMC register) and/or Registered Nurse Specialist Public Health Nurse (Part 3 of the NMC register) or children’s nurse (Part 1 of the NMC register) including evidence of revalidation and substantial relevant continuing professional development.
- Substantial experience as a Safeguarding Adults and/or Childrens nurse
- Have completed specific relevant postregistration training which includes training in the specific safeguarding of children and adults at Masters level or equivalent
- Demonstrable substantial knowledge of current legislation, guidance and legal issues relating to safeguarding children and adults, with the ability to provide specialist, expert strategic advice and guidance to service planners and commissioning organisations
- Knowledge of multi-agency partnership working
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential criteria
- Professional Clinical Qualification (current NMC register) and/or Registered Nurse Specialist Public Health Nurse (Part 3 of the NMC register) or children’s nurse (Part 1 of the NMC register) including evidence of revalidation and substantial relevant continuing professional development.
- Substantial experience as a Safeguarding Adults and/or Childrens nurse
- Have completed specific relevant post-registration training which includes training in the specific safeguarding of children and adults at Masters level or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Relevant Masters Qualification
- Evidence of safeguarding leadership training
Experience – Strategic
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable substantial knowledge of current legislation, guidance and legal issues relating to safeguarding children and adults, with the ability to provide specialist, expert strategic advice and guidance to service planners and commissioning organisations
- Knowledge of multi-agency partnership working
- Demonstrates level 4 competencies and working towards level 5
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of experience of service development and knowledge of developing guidelines, policies, and procedures
Experience – Clinical
Essential criteria
- Have substantial clinical experience of safeguarding children and adults and demonstrates working at specialist or named safeguarding practitioner level.
- Experience of planning and delivering training.
- Experience relating to policy and strategy development and implementation.
- Experience of involvement in complex safeguarding cases.
- Proven skills in complex clinical reasoning and judgement skills within Safeguarding and LAC health care
- Proven experience of successful participation in and facilitation of teamwork and development
- Experience of strategic level multiagency working.
- Participation in statutory review processes.
- Proven ability in analysing and interpreting quality data and national policy
- Demonstrable ability to provide supervision and support for health and social care professionals
- Evidence of on-going personal and professional development through a professional portfolio
Desirable criteria
- Good understanding of national policy and of the new commissioning architecture
Skills and Aptitude
Essential criteria
- Proven negotiating, influencing and leadership skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary/multi agency team.
- Ability to use IT equipment for data collection, analysis, and the production of reports. Keyboard skills / Use of Microsoft Office
- Ability to write clear and succinct reports for internal and external use.
- Recognise the need for self-reflection and to engage in supervision.
- Ability to collect and understand data in order to effectively audit / monitor health performance
- Have relevant experience and skills in the clinical management of children including those with neurodevelopmental, emotional, behavioural and attachment difficulties and adult health issues pertinent to parenting.
- Demonstrable understanding of professional issues, their relevance and application across partnership working and experience of working with partner agencies to safeguard adults or children.
- Expert ability to analyse health and social policy and interpret implications for professional practice
- Highly developed understanding of evidence-based practice and clinical / service governance
- Commitment to promotion of quality and clinical governance mechanisms to maximise the health outcomes of LAC
- Highly developed expert negotiation, communication skills and the ability to work constructively with internal and external partners
- Ability to influence and negotiate with a range of diverse stakeholders and to build professional credibility both within and external to the ICB
- Ability to work under a higher degree of pressure to meet tight deadlines, both due to the often distressing and sensitive nature of the work. Frequent requirement for concentration and high level of mental effort.
- Proven facilitation and leadership skills across the partnerships of the ICS
- Evidence of on-going clinical supervision
- Ability and confidence to challenge poor practice and support improvement
- Ability to analyse complex information/problems and facilitate solutions
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Emotional resilience due to the frequent exposure to emotional and highly distressing nature of the work, and high levels of energy and drive to deliver duties
- Demonstrably high level of personal and professional autonomy and accountability
- ‘Can do’ approach to challenges and problem solving
- Ability to manage workload and identify priorities
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships and influence
- Ability to work closely with others from a range of organisational backgrounds.
- Political awareness including understanding commissioning and providing health services locally and nationally
- Ability to challenge and resolve conflict
- Ability to work autonomously on strategic aims and objectives
- Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to effectively and sensitively challenge areas of practice that fail to meet expected standards.
- Highly motivated with an empathy for and commitment to the objectives and core values of the organisation
- Aware of own strengths and development needs
- Acquired knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity taking into account and being aware of how individual actions contribute to make a difference to the equality agenda
- Understanding of Confidentiality, Caldicott and Data Protection Act
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel regularly between office bases and across the Coventry and Warwickshire area, this will include meetings and venues arranged by partner agencies
- Ability to work flexibly including home working in order to meet the needs of the service
- Disclosure and Barring Service check satisfactory to the ICB
- Occupational health clearance satisfactory to the ICB
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sharon Mikhael
- Job title
- Associate Chief Nurse Safeguarding
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07917828442
- Additional information
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