Associate Safeguarding Specialist Nurse

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic nurse to gain experience of safeguarding children, vulnerable adults and/or children in care and work with a specialist team with a genuine commitment to promoting the welfare of children and young people. The Associate Safeguarding Specialist Nurse is an integral member of the Safeguarding Team. Their role is to support contribution of health information to the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hubs (MASH) and assist the Safeguarding Nursing Team to fulfil the safeguarding obligations of the Trust to ensure safe and effective service provision for vulnerable children and adults in the delivery of high standards of holistic family centred care.,

• To take a lead role in responding to MASH requests. This includes the collating and sharing of health information, reviewing the outcomes and appropriately documenting on the child's records
• To support the Specialist Safeguarding Nurses to fulfil statutory safeguarding responsibilities.
• Help co-ordinate safeguarding in a variety of settings, ensuring the high-quality care provision to children and young people, using Trust Policies.
• To support in delivery of safeguarding training and the monitoring and reporting of compliance rates within the recognised reporting systems
• Offer advice and support to staff regarding their role in safeguarding.
• To maintain high standards of nursing care and to promote an environment suitable for the care of C&YP.
• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate family centred care without direct supervision.
• To be understanding and supportive to the needs of children and families accessing the service.
• Work without direct supervision using experience and knowledge to respond to external partners, sharing key information to support social care assessment and management of safeguarding risk including in to MASH and MACE forums
• Support the Named Nurse in developing a clear pathways when information is shared from MARAC.
• Work in collaboration with the healthcare teams and multi-agency professionals as required.
• Assess and report risk to a senior member of the safeguarding team.
  
  The Rainbow Centre within Alder Hey is situated on the ground floor near the Emergency Department and provides a 'hub' for the co-ordination of Safeguarding and Statutory Services.
We provide child protection medical examinations for children who have been physically harmed as well as a Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) for children requiring forensic medical examination following sexual assault. We also provide Initial Health Assessments (IHAs), Adoption Medicals and provide the Medical Advisor role for Fostering and Adoption. The Associate Safeguarding Specialist Nurse is an integral member of the Safeguarding Team. Their role is to support the Safeguarding Nursing Team to fulfil the safeguarding obligations of the Trust to ensure safe and effective service provision for vulnerable children and adults in the delivery of high standards of holistic family centred care. Alder Hey Children's Hospital has a large catchment area and provides secondary health care for the boroughs of Liverpool, Knowsley, and Sefton. It is also a tertiary referral centre for specialist services with a specialist Paediatric Intensive Care Unit which receives patients from the local and regional areas. The team works closely with a range of specialities such as Burns and Plastics, Critical Care, Ophthalmology, Radiology, Major Trauma, and CAMHS colleagues in the management of some of the most complex child protection investigations within the country.