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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see Job Description and Personal Specification for full details.

The Safeguarding Nurse Specialist will be required to:

• Work in partnership within and outside the Trust,  supporting service delivery and developments in line with  local and national policy directives.
• Work in line with Sheffield Children & Adult Safeguarding  Partnership  Procedures; Sheffield Threshold of Need Guidance; Trust policies,  all of which are consistent with statutory guidance and legislation i.e  Working Together  (2023);  Children Act (1989); Children Act (2004); the Care Act 2014 and other  legislation relating to safeguarding children and adults.
• Support  Safeguarding Practitioners & Champions with management of  safeguarding supervision with regard to the most vulnerable children/ young people and adults.
• Provide reflective and restorative safeguarding supervision to support  identified staff groups.
• Have key responsibilities which will require them to work closely with Named Professionals, safeguarding teams within  and outside  the Trust; Line Managers and colleagues. 
• Support staff to intervene early, engage the most vulnerable and at risk families; ensuring they receive help & support, according to identified needs.
• Ensure robust risk assessments are undertaken, clinical decision making is  based on local safeguarding procedures and best practice.
• Promote delivery of high quality services to improve outcomes for children; young people and their families.
• Share health information  about the most vulnerable children, young people and adults, within the legal framework  when working with statutory and other partner agencies.
• Assess incoming safeguarding work including referrals for safeguarding supervision;  oversee   cases subject to safeguarding supervision, in conjunction with  Safeguarding Practitioners/ champions and Team Leaders.
• Provide a key link  with Safeguarding Practitioners/champions to ensure  their work with the most vulnerable families remain safe and co-ordinated.
• Work closely with partner agencies,  supporting early assessment,  intervention, responding  early  to the needs of the most  vulnerable children; young people and their families. 
• Manage records in line with Trust policies and NMC standards.
• In conjunction with the Community Named Nurse, monitor and evaluate  delivery and quality of safeguarding and supervisory practice within community services.
• Respond to requests from the Trust,  Safeguarding Partnership, Sheffield Domestic and Sexual Abuse Coordination Team (DACT).
• With support from the Community Named Nurse, provide  agency reports for child and adult safeguarding reviews e.g Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews; Domestic Abuse related deaths; serious incident reviews (SIRs);  or any other safeguarding reviews.
• Co-ordinate and undertake Trust safeguarding audits; contribute to multi-agency audits, acting on the findings to improve practice.
• Cascade and reinforce learning from reviews/audits; support  implementation and completion of  action plans to improve practice.
• Contribute to  delivery, development and review of safeguarding training programmes. 
• Deputise for the Named Nurse in their absence  providing representation   at  relevant meetings.

Inclusive Recruitment & Selection

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and accurate data capture is an important part of that to ensure we are supportive and representative. Our aim is to ensure that all applicants can see themselves in the available categories on our application form, but we recognise that some of our data capture fields are not inclusive. We have flagged this with our system provider to ask for change.

We offer encouragement and active support to applicants with additional needs, including those from ethnic minorities, with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community. If you wish to adjust any aspect of the recruitment process or wish to find out more about our recruitment & selection processes, please get in touch with our Recruitment Manager: [email protected]

We are continually reviewing our recruitment & selection process to support the long-term aim of Sheffield Children’s being a champion of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. If you have any ideas for improvement, please get in touch with Catherine Gilbert at [email protected]

Trust Values

 The Trust is committed to providing great quality patient care and keep children, young people and families at the heart of what we do by following our CARE values:

• Compassion – leading by kindness and showing empathy, understanding and respect
• Accountability – striving to do the right thing and owning responsibility
• Respect – value differences, tackling inequality and fostering a culture of inclusion
• Excellence – delivering a high-quality standard of care