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Job overview

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to appoint a skilled, motivated, and enthusiastic Registered Children's Nurse to join the Safeguarding  Team. The Specialist Nurse Safeguarding Children role is an exciting opportunity to develop your professional practice, and leadership skills. 

This role will support the safeguarding children agenda but the ethos of our Safeguarding Team is that all specialists cross-cover in the absence of colleagues, so you should expect to develop a working knowledge of other safeguarding sub-specialities including safeguarding unborns and adults. 

This role will require an in-depth knowledge of safeguarding and associated agendas / national guidance including application of the Care Act and Mental Capacity Act.

Main duties of the job

Support the Trust to maintain optimum standards to meet its responsibilities in relation to Safeguarding Children.

The Safeguarding Nurse Specialist is an integral member of the Safeguarding Team; the role is to support the trust to fulfil the safeguarding obligations to ensure safe and effective service provision for vulnerable children and adults in the delivery of high standards of holistic family centred care. 

To provide specialist safeguarding children advice and high-quality supervisory support to staff within WHHFT. 

To identify any practice areas or systems that may place children at risk of harm. To work with relevant practitioners to reduce the level of risk 

contribute to the Safeguarding training and to undertake audit projects, implementing findings to improve provision of a responsive safeguarding service for the Trust.

provide effective supervision, advice and support in promoting evidence-based practice to frontline staff 

assist the Head of Safeguarding to plan, monitor and implement the Safeguarding Audit programme

Support Safeguarding Children Reviews, Individual Management Reviews, Domestic Homicide Reviews and any other reviews.

The post holder will work in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team and external agencies, 

Working for our organisation

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff.  We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system.  Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated ‘good’ organisation with ‘outstanding’ features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.