Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and Registered Nurse to join the Trust's Corporate Safeguarding Children's Team. Applications are invited from nurses currently working at Band 6 and above. The post holder will work closely with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children, in a small team, you will provide effective advice, training, and safeguarding supervision. You will also be expected to contribute to auditing, escalate concerns to partner agencies, take responsibility in the achievement and monitoring of KPIs, produce complex reports and participate in investigations.
The post holder will act as an expert resource within BHRUT, working in collaboration with managers and clinicians of all disciplines, providing expert advice through supervision and by being a visible presence on our wards, to ensure effective delivery of clinical services in accordance with the contractual commitments and associated regulations.
Main duties of the job
• Maintain appropriate communication arrangements with all stakeholders to ensure continuity of care for children attending the Trust about who there may be safeguarding concerns. This will involve effective liaison between acute and community services and work in partnership with all wards and departments where there are safeguarding concerns.
• Review the attendance of children attending the Emergency Care Department and any BHRUT hospital based Walk in Centres and liaise/share necessary information to protect children with Health Visitors /School Nurses/Child Health Department.
• Establish and maintain close links with other Paediatric Liaison Health Visitor/Nurse services in other areas.
• Have specific responsibility for supporting the implementation of the Early Help Assessment (EHA) or Early Help Assessment and Plan (EHA/EHP) process throughout the Trust (replacing the previous Common Assessment Framework - CAF).
• Support the Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP) and act as a coordinator internally/externally in the Child Death Review (CDR) process. Ensure that all documentation following a child’s death is completed and relevant meetings held, prior to the case being heard at the CDOP panel, as stated in the national Child Death Review Statutory and Operational Guidance England (2018).
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in special measures; we’ve opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and, in recognition of our progress, we’ve been shortlisted for Trust of the Year at the Health Service Journal Awards.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year.
The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Registered Children's Nurse or Registered Nurse with experience of safeguarding (RCN, RGN, SCPHN).
Skills/ Abilities
Desirable criteria
2. Abilities with using professional curiosity and professional challenge in managing complex cases.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
3. Substantial experience of working in an acute hospital Trust or a related service, with responsibility for decision making.
4. Experience of working in an acute hospital environment.
Desirable criteria
5. Experience of being involved in clinical audit work and evaluation.
6. Experience of delivering safeguarding supervision.
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.