Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 844-7365852
- Employer
- Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Huyton PCRC
- Town
- Knowsley
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Strategy Nurse
Band 6
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust's common purpose:
We will support you and your community to live well.
Our values:
Compassion
Supportive and caring, listening to others.
Open
Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.
Trust
Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust provides high quality community health and care services which are responsive to the needs of our local population. Services are delivered by our dedicated and innovative multi disciplinary professionals and supported by equally committed staff behind the scenes. We strive to continue developing and improving our services by working with and listening to our populations, partners, commissioners and staff.
WCHC offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based services across Cheshire and Merseyside.
Job overview
Are you passionate about safeguarding and making a difference in the lives of children and young people?
We’re looking for a dedicated and proactive individual to join our 0–19 Service as a Strategy Lead. This vital role sits within the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) and plays a key part in ensuring the health needs of children and young people are identified, represented, and shared during multi-agency strategy discussions.
This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a dynamic, child-focused team, driving forward safeguarding excellence across Knowsley.
Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities include:
- Attending and contributing to strategy meetings for children and young people.
- Independently sourcing and collating health information from the Integrated Children’s Division.
- Ensuring health perspectives are embedded in safeguarding decisions.
- Working autonomously within the MASH team while collaborating closely with partner agencies.
Working for our organisation
Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by CQC (Dec 2023) with some outstanding areas.
As an aspiring outstanding Trust we have numerous policies and procedures in place which provide standard organisational ways of working, in line with organisational objectives, relevant legislation and requirements. Policies allow for continuity and consistency within the Trust. Employees must abide by and adhere to all Wirral Community NHS Trust’s policies, at all times.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Registered health professional (e.g., nurse, health visitor, school nurse) with current NMC registration.
- Strong understanding of safeguarding legislation, procedures, and thresholds.
- Experience of working in multi-agency settings, ideally within a MASH or safeguarding context.
- Excellent communication, analytical, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Confident in using electronic health records and information systems.
Person specification
Qualification And Professional Training
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse / Registered Midwife
- Registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse
- Post Graduate qualification in a safeguarding relating subject such as supervision
- Post Graduate qualification in leadership or equivalent experience
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and Understanding of strategy and Mash processes
- Sound working knowledge of Community Health care provision
- Sound working knowledge of the legislative framework underpinning children’s health provision and safeguarding children
- Ability to demonstrate appropriate assessment of needs of children and interventions required to safeguard children
- Ability to produce clear and concise written and verbal reports as required
- Ability to prioritise workload and sound personal organisation skills
- Ability to give sound advice on working with vulnerable children based on in depth knowledge
- Ability to manage potentially hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmospheres, disseminating unwelcome information in a sensitive manner
- Effective presentation, facilitation and teaching skills.
SKILLS & ABILITIES
Essential criteria
- Excellent inter personal skills including communication, accuracy in presentation of key information.
- IT literate
- Confidence to challenge traditional practice and persistence to address difficult issues.
- Able to work autonomously
- Excellent inter personal skills including communication, accuracy in presentation of key information.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Flexibility in work patterns
- Ability to balance work and home life
- Good communicator
- Access to own car and driving licence
- IT literate / keyboard skills
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
- Lindsey Costello
- Job title
- Interim Service Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Please email for an opportunity to talk this opportunity through .
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