Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic and committed practitioner to join the Bristol Children’s Safeguarding team, as a Band 7 Specialist Nurse for Safeguarding Children. This role is for 37.5 hours a week.

This is a varied role, which includes, offering safeguarding supervision and support, delivering integrated Safeguarding training as well as involvement in Child Protection strategies and contribution to MASH and MARAC. We work in partnership with Sirona practitioners, supporting them to provide a safeguarding service to the children, young people, and families they work with.

If you are a highly motivated individual who is passionate about safeguarding babies, children and young people we would like to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• To participate as a Sirona Health Representative within child protection strategy discussions in line with the agreed delegated framework and to seek additional expert advice and support from Community Paediatricians, named and/or designated professionals for more complex cases following preliminary strategy discussions when appropriate and necessary.
• To participate and contribute to complex Strategy discussion in relation to exploitation and share health information and contribute to safety planning.
•  To oversee, supervise and support the appropriate delegation of work for all members of the Single point of Access Team.
• To understand and manage the effective and safe handling / sharing of highly complex and contentious information sharing, both written and oral regarding child protection concerns. This will require information to be handled appropriately with adherence to Information Sharing Guidance, Human Rights legislation, GDPR 2018, Child and Adult Safeguarding policies, requirements of the Caldicott Guardian and local policies including Sirona Safeguarding Policy and Safeguarding Children Partnership Multi-agency guidance and procedures.
• To lead, supervise and support the SPA team with respect to their function of assessing and analysing all requests for information, follow information governance guidance on the retrieval, collation, sharing and storage of information to provide an evidence-based risk assessment as a contribution to the strategy discussion and risk determination process processes.
• To lead, oversee and co-ordinate the request and receipt for any specific information from relevant practitioners across the health provider community regarding family health, maternity health, school health, mental health, domestic abuse and violence and substance misuse to assist the strategy process and decision making.
• Be able to support and direct junior/ less experienced members of the team with the changing and sometime completing demands of the role from agencies such as Children's Social Care.

Working for our organisation

Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas.

We are Sirona care & health – England’s largest provider of Adult’s and Children’s Community Services and we’d love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.

Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days’ annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme – just a glimpse of the benefits you’ll receive.

We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation.

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.

Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different – we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.

Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find attached to this vacancy.