We are looking for a Specialist Nurse for Safeguarding Children to join our Safeguarding and Children in Care service based in Lancashire.

The role will be a Full time, Band 7 with Agenda for Change terms and conditions. Working Monday-Friday 9am-5pm with the opportunity to work condensed hours after completing your probation period.

You will support the Named Nurse for Safeguarding in developing an integrated approach to safeguarding children and young people. You will support the Named Nurse for Safeguarding in developing an integrated approach to safeguarding children and young people. You will support the Named Nurse for Safeguarding in developing an integrated approach to safeguarding children and young people. The post holder will cover the Central locality which covers Preston, Chorley, South Ribble and West Lancashire – there will be occasions where the post holder will be required to work flexibly across the HCRG Care Group Lancashire footprint.

As a Specialist Safeguarding Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team at Lancashire 0-19 Healthy Young People and Families Service

You will feel valued as a Specialist Safeguarding Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• Band 7 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions 
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location 
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling 
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise 
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year  
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• To contribute to ensuring that children are safeguarded from harm and that the service is applied to a high standard consistently across the locality and the whole of Lancashire
• Provide advice and support to front line clinicians to ensure that high standards of practice in Safeguarding and child protection are maintained and continuously improved.
• The post holder will need to deal with difficult situations and interruptions, which may need urgent responses. This may include communicating information to key stakeholders.
• To liaise with other key agencies and share information as appropriate
• To work closely with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children and other Service Managers to address safeguarding and protecting children practice issues in relation to competencies; performance management, training and development; discipline and grievance.

Please see job description for full list of responsibilities.

Interviews are scheduled to be held on the 15th of May 2024. 

We are looking for someone who has experience of managing complex child protection cases. With extensive knowledge of the law relating to child protection/children in need working. 

You will have previous experience in a Band 6/7 role, working in safeguarding environment. Working with multiple multi-disciplinary teams across a whole system. With a compliance in Safeguarding Training Level 3 being essential for the role.    

A full UK driving licence is required for this role and access to a vehicle.

The interviews are scheduled to be held on the 15th of May.

For further information please contact:

lisa.farrell2@hcrgcaregroup.com

07816343166.

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. 

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. 

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. 

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