Named Nurse Safeguarding Children

We are looking for a dynamic, motivated Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children to join our supportive and dedicated safeguarding team. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about safeguarding and committed to making a real difference to the lives of children, young people and their families.

Working in collaboration with the other Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children you will provide cross site, visible, compassionate and professional safeguarding leadership across the organisation, offering expert advice, guidance and support to colleagues at all levels. Working closely with clinical teams, senior leaders and our multi-agency partners, you will help ensure that safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and that children and young people remain at the heart of our practice.

You will also play an important role in developing safeguarding practice through education, supervision, learning from reviews and continuous improvement.

If you are an enthusiastic professional who enjoys working collaboratively, embraces new ideas and is passionate about delivering high-quality, child-centered safeguarding practice, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will give robust, consistent expert advice, reinforcing the need to deliver high quality safe service in line with legislation and best practice across the trust.

Receive, interpret and provide highly complex information to a wide range of people and professionals across health and social care locally and regionally

Ensure the Trust complies with the Children Act 1989 / 2004 through contribution to the Section 11 audits

Supervision

The post holder will lead and deliver safeguarding children supervision with health professionals as required to ensure consistency, safe practice and good outcomes for children and their families

Inter Agency Working

Be the Trust Lead in the participation, as required, in committees and working groups for the co-ordination and improvement of services in the prevention of child harm and promotion of the well-being of children and their families., Assist in the design, development and delivery of effective and research based training to all health staff within the Trust ensuring equal access to training at all sites.

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.