Job summary
- Main area
- Safeguarding
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday, 0830 to 1630)
- Job ref
- 339-CC5637-LMH
- Employer
- North Bristol NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Bristol Trust
- Town
- Bristol
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum depending on experience
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner - Children
NHS AfC: Band 7
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Job overview
We are looking for an experienced practitioner who is confident in their safeguarding children knowledge and skills to join our team. The Integrated Safeguarding Team (IST), led by the Director of Safeguarding and Associate Director of Safeguarding, provides evidence based safeguarding children and adult’s advice, safeguarding supervision and safeguarding related training for all disciplines of staff across all North Bristol Trust (NBT) sites. The team support staff in their management of all aspects of safeguarding practice from early help signposting to highly complex and serious child and adult protection cases. North Bristol Trust and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston are in a group model and the safeguarding service has joint leadership across the two trusts. All members of the team are expected to develop expertise in all age safeguarding.
Main duties of the job
Working with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children and Named Professionals this specialist safeguarding practitioner role acts as a resource within the integrated team supporting all safeguarding professionals to develop further their safeguarding children advice, guidance and practice. This will include all areas of familial and extra familial harm alongside knowledge of safeguarding adults MCA and DoLS. The role supports practice in Transitional Safeguarding for the 16-25 year old patient cohort. It is expected that the post holder will work within the ‘Think Family’ approach already established in the team and will work with the existing Specialist Safeguarding Practitioners to support the Trust to embed a culture that routinely considers children when treating adult patients.
The post holder will also participate in the development, updating and delivery of all levels of safeguarding children training. The post holder will be required to offer planned and ad hoc group and 1:1 safeguarding supervision to staff to facilitate their development through reflection and enquiry. This should promote professional curiosity in practice and ensure all staff are offered an opportunity to reflect on learning with a focus on the child and improving outcomes.
This post includes delegated work deputising for the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children at partnership meetings.
Working for our organisation
This role will work within the integrated safeguarding team which is a dynamic and established team that is focused on improving patients lives through support of best practice when safeguarding concerns are identified by NBT staff during their daily work.
The successful applicant will be based at Southmead Hospital but work across all sites.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. The All Age Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner - Children is a subject matter expert who provides specialist advice and guidance to staff across North Bristol Trust (NBT) on safeguarding children, safeguarding adults, and the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) .They will be expected to provide safeguarding knowledge and expertise in demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues relating to identification, assessment, management and review of safeguarding concerns for children and adults.
2. The specialist safeguarding practitioner - children contributes to quality assurance, leads on section 47 safeguarding enquiries, provides training and supervision, and liaises with multi-agency partners.
3. This role involves making operational decisions in complex and challenging situations, ensuring adherence to the statutory framework for children (Children Act 1989/2004) and its intersection with MCA and best interest processes in addition to monitoring and improving standards of care through safeguarding leadership, supervision, audit, evidence-based practice, training and the provision of safeguarding advice and support. This also includes applicable knowledge for Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS).
4. They play a crucial role in maintaining accurate patient databases, developing policies, and promoting a culture of transparency and equality.
5. They act as a role model, promote best practices, and contribute to the implementation of new regulations, and will deputise for the Named Nurse/Named Professional in their absence.
See Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional Registration NMC, HCPC, SWE
- CPD requirements maintained
- Degree level education supplemented by post-graduate diploma specialist training, experience, short courses, plus further specialist training to master's equivalent level.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of safeguarding children’s legislation and the mental capacity act. Knowledge of the Care Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
- Proven ability to provide specialist education and training in safeguarding children.
- IT skills for developing and delivering teaching programs.
- Highly developed specialist knowledge in safeguarding children underpinned by theory and experience.
- Knowledge of Working Together to Safeguard Children and the Children’s Act (1989/2004), the Care Act (2014) and Intercollegiate Documents for Safeguarding Adults and Children. Awareness of the NHSE Safeguarding Assurance Framework
- Knowledge of GDPR and Data Protection Act policies
skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Experience in conducting audits and impact assessments
- Experience in providing leadership, mentorship, coaching, and supervision
- Experience in delivering induction, refresher, and specific safeguarding children training in related topics i.e. Neglect, Exploitation, MCA, domestic abuse, PREVENT
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex safeguarding situations
- Strong communication and relationship skills, including the ability to handle sensitive and contentious information.
- Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams
- Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information to diverse audiences, where English may not be the first language or there may be hostility to the topic under discussion.
- Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
- Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Engagement in clinical and safeguarding supervision
- Ability to establish and maintain professional networks
personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Embrace the core values of the organisation and demonstrate an attitude which respects and values patients and their relatives and carers and actively promotes the wellbeing of staff.
- Recognises the harmful effects of discrimination and inequality on health and outcomes for adults and children. Visibly promotes and drives equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Flexible in style and approach to the role to best support individual team members at a time of change.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Katie Thomas
- Job title
- Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0117 414 9054
- Additional information
Claire Pengelley-Scott
Associate Dir. Safeguarding
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
People & Transformation Division
North Bristol NHS Trust
Southmead Hospital
BS10 5NB
- Telephone
- 0117 4141151
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