About the Role
and our Ideal Candidate
The Specialist Safeguarding Nurse for children will work within the safeguarding health team and with oher safeguarding children teams within the London Borough of Sutton and within Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust, as well as with the Designated Nurse at Sutton ICB.
The post holder will promote good practice and effective communication with the named nurse,across the Council and within the Trust, and between other NHS partners and all external agencies on matters relating to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
The Specialist Safeguarding nurse will be led by the Named Nurse and work with a number of specialist safeguarding nurses.
About Us
Children's Health Service
The London Borough of Sutton is part of an alliance of local providers which includes Epsom and St Helier’s NHS Trust, the Sutton GP Federation and South West London & St Georges MH Trust. This is known as the Sutton Health and Care (SHC) Alliance. Together we want to improve local services for adults and children by joining up health and social care provision across organisational boundaries. The SHC Alliance is already starting to deliver innovative services in Sutton that are providing joined- up care. The first of these is Sutton Health and Care at Home which went live in April 18. We now have an opportunity to improve local services for our children, focusing in particular on improving school readiness, mental health and wellbeing and SEND provision.
The Safeguarding Children Team aims to ensure that all children and young people are effectively protected when using our services; that processes are robust for the early detection and any subsequent referral, and that colleagues are adequately supported to carry out such work. The team provides safeguarding supervision, expert advice and deliver safeguarding training within Sutton.
For more information on the role and the service, please download the Candidate Pack which can be found towards the bottom of the page. For an informal discussion, feel free to contact the Children's Health Team - Jean Crate, Service Manager ()
Our Offer To You
As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We’re constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across - however big or small - will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.
In addition, we offer a modern and flexible working environment for our staff, supported by our IT infrastructure, including Google Chromebooks and Google Apps. Our Flexible Working - Smarter Working Scheme embraces new ways of working. It provides improved work life balance for our staff as it allows staff to work from a variety of locations and staff are not required to work within the office 5 days a week.
Employees have access to a wide range of benefits, some of which include:
1. Generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply)
2. General Council Flexi-time (Please note, this applies to roles at grades 1-9 only)
3. Public Health Service Localised Flexi-time Scheme - accrual of up to 5 days per year
4. Three volunteering days per year in Sutton
5. Comprehensive learning and development programme
6. Local and national discounts for shopping, eating out and leisure activities
7. Interest free season ticket loans
8. Local Government Pension Scheme
9. Car parking scheme
10. Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
11. Zip car scheme
12. Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses
13. Confidential wellbeing and counselling support
14. Subsidised gym membership