Main area: Nursing and Midwifery
Grade Band: 7
Contract: 12 months (Secondment, Fixed Term)
Hours: Part time - 30 hours per week
Job ref: 188-THQ2030225
Site: Southampton General Hospital
Town: Southampton
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pa or pa pro rata
Closing: 18/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 04/03/2025
Job overview
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the UHS Safeguarding Team as a Senior Safeguarding Children Practitioner, developing your skills and knowledge within a friendly and committed team working within a large acute hospital.
This role will encompass a wide range of Safeguarding Children practices and will reach from supporting our Paediatric Liaison service to our Paediatric Intensive Care Unit in their day-to-day roles, ensuring that children are safeguarded effectively throughout their journey with us.
Main duties of the job
Responsibilities
* To support the safeguarding work of frontline nursing staff and other staff in appropriate cases and exercise good leadership skills.
* Responsible for providing, receiving and disseminating highly complex, sensitive and confidential information appropriately.
* To provide specialist advice and support to nurses, doctors, other health professionals and other staff within the Trust involved in actual or suspected cases of safeguarding maltreatment.
* Co-ordinate the Trust’s multi-disciplinary response in safeguarding cases, ensuring that decisions and interventions are appropriate and timely, and are made by professionals with a sufficient level of education, experience and competence.
* To provide one-to-one or group safeguarding supervision to all staff Trust-wide involved in safeguarding cases on a case-by-case basis.
* To participate in the development and delivery of high-quality and research-based safeguarding training across the Trust to a wide variety of disciplines.
Experience / Skill
* Relevant experience of working with safeguarding cases in a variety of settings involving adults or children’s services.
* Knowledge of safeguarding legislation, current issues, and inquiry reports for adults and children.
* Experience in attending safeguarding strategies case conferences/participating in protection plans.
* Ability to have difficult conversations whilst maintaining a positive, professional manner.
* Able to manage own workload autonomously.
* Synthesise information quickly and able to communicate the information.
Person specification
Qualifications / training required
* Registered Healthcare Professional on relevant part of NMC / HCPC register with extensive experience.
* Masters-level modules in relevant subject or willingness to undertake.
* Evidence of CPD to master’s level or equivalent.
* Specialist training in area of practice.
* Teaching qualification.
* Leadership training.
* IT training.
Previous or relevant experience necessary
* Relevant experience of working with safeguarding cases in a variety of settings involving adults or children’s services.
* Experience of inter-agency partnership working.
* Knowledge of safeguarding legislation, current issues, and inquiry reports for adults and children.
* Specialist clinical skills and experience.
* Change management.
* Leadership, innovation.
* Evidenced based care philosophy.
* Experience of attending safeguarding strategies case conferences/participating in protection plans.
* Policy development and implementation.
Values and behaviours
* Patients First
* Always Improving
* Working Together
Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.
Our commitment to equality
Equality remains at the centre of our policymaking, service delivery, and employment practice, giving all employees equal opportunity to develop, apply for promotions, and have working arrangements that enable them to achieve a manageable work-life balance.
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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.
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