Job summary
- Main area
- Safeguarding Team - 202030
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 262-A-25-7507519
- Employer
- North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Unit 12,
- Town
- Carlisle
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children and Young People
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
To provide expert advice and support on a daily basis to a wide-ranging workforce on all aspects of safeguarding work, including highly complex, difficult, sensitive and emotive situations.
To work closely with other Named and Designated Professionals across the network, supporting all activities necessary to ensure that NCIC meets its responsibilities in safeguarding.
To contribute to the strategic development organisation of safeguarding services.
To ensure that robust systems are in place to ensure effective, timely information sharing between staff within and outside of NCIC.
The Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children will focus on the implementation and management of safeguarding systems and activity relating to:
- Child Sexual Exploitation and contextual safeguarding
- Responses to child deaths
- Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and the work of the Partnerships
- Acting as an expert support to the Safeguarding Hub and the safeguarding administrators
Main duties of the job
General
Post holders will be expected to act in line with the Intercollegiate Document ‘Safeguarding Children and Young People; Roles and Competencies for Healthcare Staff’ https://www.rcn.org.uk/professional-development/publications/pub-007366
- Act as the safeguarding lead for children across the organisation
- Promote best practice and emerging practice in Safeguarding Children work
- Support all activities necessary to ensure that the organisation meets its responsibilities to safeguard/protect children, young people and unborn babies at risk, with the ability to challenge poor practice
- Be responsible to and accountable within the managerial framework of NCIC, linking to the Designated Nurse within the ICB’s to ensure a link into the wider health economy
Inter-agency responsibilities
Leadership and advisory role
Co-ordination and communication
Governance: policies and procedure
Training and Learning
Monitoring
Supervision
Personal development
There may also be a requirement to undertake other similar duties as part of this post in order to provide a quality service. These will be consistent with the level of responsibilities outlined above.
This job description may be reviewed from time to time in light of developments and may be amended in consultation with the post holder.
Working for our organisation
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time':
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money well
As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.
Standard Check: £21.50 + Administration cost of £5.90 = £27.40. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.
Enhanced Check: £49.50 + administration cost of £5.90 = £55.40. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.
NCIC can offer successful future employees the following benefits:
27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years
Flexible working Scheme
NHS Discounts*
Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work*
Excellent opportunities for development*
Competitive NHS Pension scheme
Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems
*Subject to eligibility
Important Information
Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.
Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Current Registration on either Part 1 or Part 3 of the NMC register
- • Degree or equivalent specialist post registration training in safeguarding
Desirable criteria
- • Masters level qualification
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- • Post qualification experience and currently practising in safeguarding
- • Advanced understanding of child-care legislation, information sharing, information governance, confidentiality, capacity and consent including guidance from professional bodies
- • Know how to implement and audit the effectiveness of safeguarding services on an organisational level against current national guidelines and quality standards
Desirable criteria
- Have an advanced knowledge of relevant national and international issues, policies and implications for practice
Skills and aptitudes
Essential criteria
- • Able to give advice about safeguarding policy and legal frameworks
- • Able to support colleagues in challenging views offered by other professionals, as appropriate
- • Able to advise other agencies about the health management of child protection concerns
- • Able to analyse and evaluate information and evidence to inform inter-agency decision-making across the organisation
- • Able to participate in any statutory or locally required reviews of practice, leading internal management reviews as part of this
- • Able to support others across the organisation to appropriately respond to learning reviews
- • Able to develop a management plan for Fabricated and Induced Illness (FII) and to support colleagues involved in individual cases
- • Able to establish and review safeguarding quality assurance measures and processes
- • Able to undertake training needs analysis, and to teach and educate health service professionals
- • Able to review, evaluate and update local guidance and policy in light of research findings
Desirable criteria
- Able to advise and inform others about national and international issues and policies and the implications for practice
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- • Understands the importance and benefits of working in an environment that supports professionals
- • Understands and responds to the potential personal impact of safeguarding work on professionals
- • Recognises when additional support is needed around complex cases, i.e from legal services, specialist support or in cases of FII
- • Recognises the impact of a family’s cultural and religious background when assessing risk and managing concerns
- • Recognises ethical considerations in safeguarding
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- • Able to travel frequently to other sites within, Cumbria and occasionally outside of Cumbria.
- • Actively promote the benefits of equality, and value diversity
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Rebecca Maidment
- Job title
- Head of Safeguarding
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07971 586 502
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