NursingNetUK

Job overview

This senior post  works as part of the Integrated Care Board safeguarding team ensuring that  ICB the statutory safeguarding responsibility and  function  is appropriately  and effectively discharged across the ICB and  the wider Integrated Care System.

The post  provides strategic safeguarding  leadership and  expert safeguarding advice and consultancy to colleagues , senior managers and board members, ensuring that safeguarding children’s standards and the statutory responsibilities of the ICB are well met and children in Kent and Medway are appropriately protected and safeguarded from significant risk and harm.

Main duties of the job

The Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children will be responsible for ensuring that the ICB itself compliant/ discharges safeguarding duties with all the relevant safeguarding statutory duties, Children Act (2004), the Children and Social Care Act (2017), including the application of the Mental Capacity Act (2005).

The Designated Nurse for safeguarding children is the role that encompasses working across the local health system (Kent and Medway ICB) to support other professionals in their agencies on all aspects of safeguarding children. It is a vital source of advice and support to health commissioners in the ICB, the local authority children’s services and NHS England, other health professionals in provider organisations, Quality Surveillance Groups, regulators, Safeguarding Children Partnerships, Kent and District Community Safety Partnerships and Kent and Medway Health and Well-being Board.

The designated children’s safeguarding nurse will liaise with, and support, the adult safeguarding designate nurse/professional who holds the lead for MCA within their portfolio and are responsible for providing support and advice to clinicians in continuing health care (CHC) in individual cases and supervision to staff in areas where these issues may be particularly prevalent and/or complex.

Working for our organisation

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.

We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal, and access to training opportunities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation.