Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children & Young People

Secondment opportunity to work within the Safeguarding team at UHNM as the named nurse for safeguarding children and young people. The post is 32hours per week, working Monday-Thursday. The post holder will, as part of the UHNM Safeguarding team, provide a Trust wide overview of all children/young people safeguarding matters and co-ordinate all issues and processes concerning safeguarding, The post holder will, as part of the UHNM Safeguarding team, provide a Trust wide overview of all children/young people safeguarding matters, co-ordinating all issues and processes concerning safeguarding, providing specialist advice and information.
Contribute to the development of internal safeguarding policies, guidelines, and protocols
Effectively communicate local safeguarding knowledge, research and findings from audits and challenge poor practice.
Facilitate and contribute to own organisation audits, multi agency audits and statutory inspections
Organise, plan and deliver Safeguarding training to staff across UHNM
Undertake/ contribute to serious case/ case management reviews, including the development and implementation of action plans
Effectively work with colleagues across the trust and from other organisations, including the Police, the Local Authority, the Local Safeguarding Children's Boards (LSCB) and other LSCB partners
Work with the Safeguarding team to identify and support safeguarding supervision and reflective practice for staff across the Trust
Participate in LSCB sub-groups, as directed by the Lead Nurse - Safeguarding
Work with the Lead Nurse - Safeguarding and the Lead for Vulnerable Patients to support safeguarding quality assurance and improvement processes
Participate in risk assessments of the organisation's ability to safeguard/protect children and young people, 1. All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly.
2. References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
3. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
4. Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies
5. New recruits are required to pay for their Disclosure and Barring Service check (and admin fee) prior to starting if the role requires a DBS check.
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University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) has been awarded the Gold Award for proudly supporting those who serve. We actively encourage applications from the Armed Forces community.
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At UHNM we are fortunate to receive a high volume of applications for many of our roles, on this occasion we would reserve the right to close any advert early, therefore please apply without delay!
If you obtained your qualifications overseas, you will be required to provide an official government translation through ECCTIS (formerly known as NARIC). Please note, this is in addition to any professional registration requirements and not a replacement for your qualifications.
If you are currently in the UK on a visa, you must have at least six months remaining on your visa at the time of application to ensure sufficient time for the recruitment and training process associated with the role. The requirement of at least six months remaining on your visa does not apply to a Skilled Worker Visa, as a new Skilled Worker Visa would be required for a new role.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.