Job summary
- Main area
- Named Nurse Safeguarding - Looked After Children
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 241-371CD-24
- Employer
- Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Bolton Hospital
- Town
- Bolton
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Named Nurse: Looked After Children
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
To support the Trust in meeting statutory health provision for Looked after Children and Care Leavers and to ensure that services across the Trust are meeting the needs of vulnerable children, reducing health inequalities and supporting transition to adulthood.
Main duties of the job
To co-ordinate the provision of services to Looked after Children, Care Leavers and vulnerable children
To ensure that care pathways are in place and followed with quality assurance processes in place
To oversee and report monthly and quarterly KPIs and complete an Annual Report
To act as Trust lead for Child Exploitation and Serious Youth Violence
To provide health input to high risk panels for children and young people including CEAM (Child Exploitation and Missing) and Channel
To contribute to the work of the Corporate Parenting Board
To ensure that all staff who work with Looked after Children and other vulnerable groups have had training appropriate for their role
Working for our organisation
We are proud to provide 'Outstanding' care and be a great place to work
Cultural diversity is one of our greatest assets at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust. We are committed to ensuring staff and patients are free from discrimination regardless of their ethnicity, background, gender or sexual orientation.
Every person should be able to fulfil their potential at work and we pride ourselves on using this knowledge to provide personalised care and ensure that we are a supportive environment in which to work .We provide safe, compassionate and high quality care to 300,000 people living or visiting Bolton (the biggest Town in the UK) and the surrounding areas. Bolton has been ranked as one of the happiest places to live in the North west.
In 2020 we came together with our partners to radically change the way we deliver health and care services in Bolton. The aim was to build an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) where we all worked together to improve people’s health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities across the system.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for detailed job description and main responsibilities, alternatively please see contact details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with an additional qualification
- Evidence of ongoing safeguarding and specialist training and personal development
- Evidence of knowledge acquired through post graduate study or equivalent operational experience with child exploitation, Serious Youth Violence and Looked after Children
Desirable criteria
- Masters level study
- Leadership /Safeguarding qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience of working in a safeguarding / looked after children/vulnerable children role
- Experience of multi-agency/partnership working at operational level
- Experience of working as part of a specialist safeguarding and LAC team
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and experience of safeguarding adult practice
- Experience of providing Safeguarding Supervision
Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of partnership working with vulnerable children including Looked after Children
- Ability to demonstrate extensive understanding of safeguarding and Looked after Children principles and their application to practice
- Receive and communicate information relating to safeguarding and patient safety, which may impact on the Trust or on an organisation-wide basis
Desirable criteria
- Involved in supporting projects/practice developments
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Fiona Farnworth
- Job title
- Named Nurse Childrens Safeguarding
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01204 390267
- Additional information
Angela Clough, Associate Director Patient Safety and Quality, 01204 390635
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