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Job summary

Main area
Safeguarding
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
12 months (12 month fixed term)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
407-CORP-7823704
Employer
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Walsall Manor Hospital
Town
Walsall
Salary
£55,690 - £62,682 pa pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/04/2026 23:59
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Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT) Lead Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust provides integrated acute and community Healthcare in the West Midlands serving a population of 260,000 residents. Walsall Manor Hospital houses the full range of district general hospital services. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and we are continually upgrading. Construction of the new integrated critical care unit was completed in 2018, extension of a Neonatal Unit and an approved plan to build a brand new, state of the art Emergency Department which commenced in 2021

We provide high quality, friendly and effective community health services from multiple sites covering Walsall. Our multidisciplinary services include rapid response and homebased care, so that those with long term conditions and the frail elderly can remain in their own homes.

We are recommended by colleagues as a place to work which is supported by the trusts values to work as part of a team, being respectful, compassionate and professional. We are committed to investing in our workforce

Following our recent CQC visit the Trust was rated as outstanding for care and this has been recognised by NHS Improvement. 

The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including: salary sacrifice scheme; car leasing scheme; on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability); the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme; and the opportunity to develop and implement your expertise in an encouraging yet challenging environment

We would particularly welcome applications from people from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background and from people with a disability; these groups are currently under-represented at senior level, we value diversity within our Trust and are working to achieve equality in our recruitment.
 
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at COVID-19 Vaccination | How to access your vaccine in the Black Country and West Birmingham (blackcountryandwestbirmccg.nhs.uk) where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.
 

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is proud to be part of the Armed Forces Covenant.  The Trust currently holds the Bronze Award which underlines the Trust’s commitment to supporting the Armed Forces Community.  As an organisation, we are aiming to achieve the next level Silver award, with our sights firmly on Gold.

 

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Job overview

Safeguarding partners are establishing new expert-led Multi-Agency Child Protection Teams (MACPTs) to support local authorities in discharging their Section 47 Children Act 1989 duties. As Wolverhampton and Walsall are pathfinder sites, the MACPTs will include dedicated health resource as part of the test-and-learn approach.

The post holder will work equally across both MACPTs and will:
• Act as a visible Lead Named Nurse within the MACPT.
• Provide operational health leadership and ensure safe, effective child protection practice.
• Work with the FFCP Health Coordinator and Heads of Safeguarding across RWT, WHT and BCHFT.
• Model proactive, positive leadership.
• Collaborate with ICB, health providers, local authorities, and safeguarding professionals to meet statutory duties.
• Support the development and delivery of specialist child protection training with Trust education teams and safeguarding partnerships.
• Provide day-to-day child protection advice within the MACPT.
• Contribute to internal reviews and Safeguarding Children Practice Reviews.
• Maintain high professional standards and drive improvements in patient safety, experience, and service effectiveness.
• Offer expert safeguarding advice, analyse complex situations, and make informed recommendations.
• Use strong interpersonal, negotiation, and partnership skills to achieve effective multi-agency collaboration.

Main duties of the job

·       Ensuring safe and effective child protection practice across health services.

·       Enhancing the child, young person and parents experience by ensuring safeguarding systems and processes are in place.

·       Ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the health organisation’s objectives

·       Managing and developing the health performance of the MACPT

·       Ensuring there are appropriate reports available which demonstrate MACPT activity to a variety of groups and committees as requested by FFCP Health Coordinator, respective Head of Safeguarding in the Trusts or other stakeholders.

Working for our organisation

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 284,300, providing inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and the continued upgrading of existing areas ensures the Trust now has a state-of-the-art Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit facilities. 

A new Urgent Emergency Care Centre was opened in March 2023. The two-storey development has significantly improved emergency care facilities and capacity and has provided almost 5,000 square metres of additional clinical space.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Families First for Children Pathfinder (FFCP) was announced in February 2023 as part of the government’s children’s 
social care implementation strategy, Stable homes, built on love.
It responds to recommendations from the Independent review of children’s social care, the Child Safeguarding Practice 
Review Panel report on child protection in England and the Competitions and Market Authority’s market study of children’s 
social care provision. The pathfinder will test delivery of key strategy commitments.
The programme is designing and testing radical reforms in a number of local areas, across the following policies:
1. Family help
2. Child protection via Multi-agency Child Protection Teams (MACPT’s)
3. Family network support packages (FNSPs)
4. Safeguarding partners

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • First level registration with Nursing Midwifery Council
  • Educated to Degree Level or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
  • Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Degree Course

Experience / Skills

Essential criteria
  • Experience of leading a safeguarding service at Named Nurse level or equivalent.
  • Experience of facilitating/teaching to both large and small groups.
  • Substantive experience as a Named Nurse / Professional Safeguarding
  • Substantive Experience of managing a Safeguarding Child caseload
  • Complex reasoning skill
  • Critical thinking, reflection and analysis.
  • Knowledge and skills of a broad range of clinically and professionally challenging and complex situations related to safeguarding
  • Suitability to work with adults/children at risk of abuse
  • Use of databases
  • Standard keyboard skills and knowledge of a number of IT packages such as excel, Word, PAS, e-rostering etc
  • Able to work under pressure across competing priorities
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working as a clinical/safeguarding supervisor
  • Evidence of leading organisational change in practice
  • Service development
  • Data input, collection, analysis, audit and evaluation
  • Knowledge of current NHS policy and their implication for services
  • Ability to work autonomously
  • Ambition in expectations of self and colleagues in delivering high-quality care.

Communication Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent written and verbal skills.
  • Ability to communicate with senior staff within the professional, and other professions and patients/carers, on a range of highly complex and sensitive issues requiring both persuasive and empathetic skills
  • Ability to communicate with staff in respect of unwelcome news [poor performance, complaints and incidents. ]
Desirable criteria
  • Presentation skills to large and small groups within and external to the Trust

Flexibility

Essential criteria
  • Flexible approach to working hours to align to service need
  • Ability to adapt behaviour to changing circumstances
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of a flexible and innovative approach to service delivery and development
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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

Please note this vacancy may close early due to high volume of applications

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Charlotte Grew
Job title
Deputy Head of Safeguarding
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01922 602318

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