Named Nurse for Safeguarding Looked After Children

The Named Nurse for Safeguarding Looked After Children will support all activities to ensure the Trust meets its safeguarding responsibilities regarding Looked After children, their families and carers. The post holder will provide Trust based leadership and assurance across the field of children's safeguarding. Work closely with other named and designated professionals both locally and across the Greater Manchester footprint. The post holder will be the Named Nurse for safeguarding looked after children, based within the Trust, working within a multi-professional arena and providing highly developed specialist knowledge on child safeguarding issues. The suggested portfolio for this role is looked after children, complex safeguarding, and transitions, and supporting the portfolio of the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children in line with the intercollegiate documents.,

• Support all activities necessary to ensure that PCFT meets its responsibilities for safeguarding looked after children.
• The post holder will enable the Trust and its workforce to comply with statutory and mandatory safeguarding frameworks and guidelines.
• The post holder will be a source of highly specialised knowledge at Board and practice level.
• Work with other named, specialist and designated professionals to plan and develop a strategy for safeguarding children.
• The post holder will line manage Safeguarding Families Specialist Practitioners., Support all activities necessary to ensure that PCFT meets its responsibilities for safeguarding looked after children.
• The post holder will enable the Trust and its workforce to comply with statutory and mandatory safeguarding frameworks and guidelines.
• The post holder will be a source of highly specialised knowledge at Board and practice level.
• Work with other named, specialist and designated professionals to plan and develop a strategy for safeguarding children.
• The post holder will line manage Safeguarding Families Specialist Practitioners
• The post holder will support the safeguarding lead in implementing the safeguarding children and Think Family agenda.
• The post holder will provide Supervision within the Safeguarding Team and to other health professionals, as required.
• The post holder will develop and maintain excellent relationships with other agencies, overcoming barriers and professional challenge to improve outcomes for looked after children, their families and carers.
• Communicate a range of highly complex, sensitive and contentious topics to a range of professionals in varying situations.
• Analyse highly complex situations and provide judgements as to a range of options, deciding on best action to ensure the optimum outcome for children, their families and carers.
• Liaise closely with mental health services.
• Develop and facilitate safeguarding training, including children, looked after children, adults and Prevent.
• Promote the work of the Local Borough Safeguarding Children Partnerships and Corporate Parenting Boards across the Trust footprint and actively participate in sub groups as a health representative.
• Undertake individual management review as part of Safeguarding Children Reviews and participate in the implementation of recommendations.
• Maintain the safeguarding children supervision system and provide supervision to colleagues as required.
• Have an in-depth knowledge of legislation and statutory requirements regarding safeguarding practice.
• Respond to changes or amendments to legislation and statutory guidance and disseminate as required.
• Development of service specifications and standards for safeguarding practice.
• Work closely with the Named Professional Safeguarding Adults and Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children to provide cross cover when required.
• Support and advise colleagues on the clinical assessment and care of children where there are safeguarding concerns.
• Be able to articulate to colleagues their role and remit and clinical professional accountability
• Support and advise professionals on the management of all forms of child abuse including relevant legal frameworks and documentation.
• Assess and evaluate written reports for court, police statements and complex professional meetings and case conferences as required.
• Support staff if they must attend court or give a police statement.
• Provide advice and signposting to other professionals about legal processes, key research and policy documents.
• Work closely with other safeguarding colleagues across the Trust and health economy.
• Contribute to the PCFT safeguarding work plan and associated work streams.
• Support the Head of Safeguarding to ensure high levels of assurance.
Hints and tips for completing your application can be found here. Sponsorship - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website. What happens after your application has been received? You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting via email. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. Interview invites will be sent out via email. What happens if I am offered the position after interview? The hiring manager will make contact with you to verbally offer you the position. The hiring manager will then inform Recruitment of the decision and provide relevant paperwork. You will be sent a formal conditional offer via email. What pre-employment checks will I need to complete? By conducting pre-employment checks, the recruitment team will verify that you meet the pre-conditions of the role you have been offered. Pre-employment checks will be carried out according to NHS Employment Check Standards. The checks are: + Identity verification + Right to work check + Disclosure and barring service (DBS)/Criminal record check (dependent on role) + Professional registration and/or qualification check + Occupational health assessment + Employment history and reference validation All applicants external to NHS will be required to provide HMRC employment history to cover the most recent three years. This information will used to validate employment history and references as part of pre-employment checks. If you are offer a position with is and you require sponsorship to support your right to work, we will review your eligibility in line with government guidance. If the role you have been offer is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not able to evidence your right to work, your conditional offer could be withdrawn. What happens when pre-employment checks are complete? Recruitment will liaise with you and the hiring manager to arrange a start date for your new position. You will then be booked on to a Trust Welcome Session and be sent your Pennine Care NHS Terms and Conditions. Other important information + We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider brilliant innovation diverse people bring. + If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post. + If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application. + Unfortunately we are not able to guarantee the transfer of lease cars, or cover the costs of early termination charges. + We have a strict policy on unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Please do not contact our hiring managers directly. We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. To ensure you application is considered, please submit at the earliest opportunity.

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We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester. Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We are proud of our #PennineCarePeople Our ambition is to maximise people's potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce, so our people truly represent the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a Carer. We offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including: 1. Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff. 2. Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance 3. Access to Continued Professional Development 4. Involvement in improvement and research activities 5. Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service 6. Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure, and travel If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople