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The Senior Safeguarding Nurse / Practitioner for Children role is a visible and knowledgeable resource and support to patient facing staff across the Trust for safeguarding children’s concerns. They will work alongside trust staff developing safeguarding competence and confidence with a focus on improving patient outcomes.
They will use their own robust knowledge to support staff through advice, guidance, supervision and training keeping the working together to safeguard children framework at the forefront of their interactions.
They will contribute to the safeguarding agenda through the provision of evidence based safeguarding advice, support, guidance, supervision and training for all disciplines of staff across all trust sites.
1. To work with all staff to provide support, advice and expert guidance to assist in exercising duties and responsibilities for safeguarding of children/ young people, adults and their families where appropriate
2. To deputise for the Operational Lead Nurse for Safeguarding Children, providing specialist advice, support and supervision across the Trust.
3. Support Trust staff in the management of all aspects of complex and serious safeguarding children/young people activities including, for example, attendance at strategy discussions and complex case meetings.
4. To be a competent, knowledgeable, and visible practitioner, ensuring the provision of high-quality safeguarding children support for frontline practitioners
5. Deliver safeguarding supervision to clinical frontline staff
6. Assess, implement, plan, and evaluate care and interventions for service users with complex safeguarding needs.
7. To complete safeguarding audits as per the Safeguarding team audit plan
8. Maintain and develop own levels of specialist knowledge and skills in relation to safeguarding children/young people and clinical practice.
9. Work collaboratively with partner agencies as set out in the Working together to Safeguard Children (2023) guidance.
10. To escalate safeguarding concerns, internally and externally as per local, regional and National directive
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University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.