Designated Nurse Safeguarding Children

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, highly motivated designated safeguarding children's nurse who is confident and has experience of working across the health economy with children social care to safeguarding children. The post holder will job share the role of Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children/Child Protection across the London Borough of Lambeth. They will provide specialist advice, guidance, support and training to all disciplines of health care staff, and to other agencies, on all matters related to Child Protection. They will take a leading role in the continuing development and integration of evidence-based child protection practice in Lambeth health services. The post will inform the strategic thinking and direction of SEL ICS (Lambeth), and local health local partners, and they will be directly involved in the development and monitoring of child protection standards through Practice Based and other commissioning arrangements.

The post fulfils the statutory obligations under Section 7 guidance to take a professional role on all aspects of the Health Services construction to safeguard children.

This role is based within Lambeth.

For Futher Information please contact:Avis.Williams-McKoy@selondonics.nhs.ukAvis Williams-McKoy MBE.Nurse Consultant, Designated Nurse Child Protection

We are looking for someone who is an experienced practitioner, enjoys challenge, has drive and ambition and the ability to work productively within health and partner agencies to improve the health outcomes of Lambeth's Children. We are committed to making Lambeth the safest place possible for children and young people to develop their full potential.

The South East London ICB is the NHS management unit of the ICS. It is accountable both to NHS England and to the South East London Integrated Care Partnership (ICP). The ICS exists to deliver four core purposes:o Improve outcomes in South East London population health and health and care serviceso Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access suffered by the residents of South East London.o Enhance productivity and value for money in the in the use of health and care resources in South East Londono Help the NHS support broader social and economic development in South East London.

The ICS is not an intermediate management tier and fundamental to the operating model of the ICS are three fundamental principles:o Partnership: We are a partnership of sovereign bodies coming together to achieve something greater than the sum of the partners. All partners have a voice and all partners have responsibility.o Subsidiarity: We work on the basis of subsidiarity. This means issues and decisions should be dealt at the most local level consistent with their effective resolution.o Accountability: We value both supporting each other and being held to account by each other and our wider partners.

NHS South East London Intergrated Care System is the statutory body responsible for commissioning healthcare services to South East London's 1.9 million residents of the boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark.