We are seeking a compassionate, skilled, and experienced Band 7 Specialist Safeguarding Nurse to join the Hampshire Children's Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH). This is a unique and rewarding opportunity to work at the heart of safeguarding, where timely, high-quality decision-making can change lives and improve children's outcomes.
As a MASH Specialist Safeguarding Nurse, you will play a pivotal role in researching and assessing health information and you will work with partner agencies to support the protection and wellbeing of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. Working within a dynamic, multi-disciplinary environment, you will contribute your clinical expertise to inform risk assessments, promote early intervention, and ensure safeguarding concerns are addressed quickly and effectively, working within existing legal frameworks.
You will work alongside another Specialist Nurse to jointly lead and manage the skilled Hampshire Children's MASH team comprising of practitioners and admin support.
You will bring strong clinical judgement, excellent communication skills, a passion for safeguarding, the ability to work collaboratively and your ability to be flexible and responsive. Experience in safeguarding, children's Health services, or public health is highly desirable and essential to support with improving vulnerable children's outcomes. You will have experience in auditing and providing clear, insightful reports to identify and improve service delivery.
*Ensure the Trust meets its statutory obligations to safeguard children, complying with legislation, policy and procedures and relevant frameworks.
*Work within safeguarding frameworks to support the Local Authoritie's role to investigate safeguarding concerns and manage risk where children and young people have experienced or are likely to experience significant harm.
*The post holder will be part of a co-located multi-agency team including police officers, social workers, other health professionals from provider organisations, education representatives, and others.
*The post holder will be required to maintain supportive and constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, specifically health professionals from various services and disciplines.
*Through liaison and dialogue identify and collate and assess the relevant health information to add to the multi-agency risk assessment.
*Record, interpret, assess, and present health information and issues that can impact the risk or need assessment of child/children from a range of health perspectives. This may involve sharing relevant information on the parents or carers and ensuring that the information is processed fairly and proportionally.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
*Registered Professional on Part 1 of the NMC Register (Nursing and Midwifery Council), or relevant qualifications as a Midwife or Allied health professional.
*Degree level qualification
*Evidence of ongoing professional development.
*Evidence of Specialist specific safeguarding training and experience.
*Registered Health Visitor/Public health nurse (SCPHN)
*Teaching and assessment qualification
*Accredited safeguarding supervision training
*Masters or working towards
*Evidence of recent community health provider experience
*Knowledge and implementation of national and local Safeguarding Policies, guidelines and recommendations.
*Knowledge of relevant legislation relating to Safeguarding
*Knowledge of models of Supervision
*Demonstrates knowledge relevant to patterns of abuse and neglect.
*In depth post registration experience
*Line management experience
*Experience of clinical supervision within a team context
*Experience of policy development and implementation.
*Experience of working in a multi-agency environment
*Experience of working with client groups including complex needs and child protection
*Experience of working in a constantly changing clinical environment
*Experience of or understanding of the Multi-agency Safeguarding Hubs (MASH)
*Ability to appraise and analyse health information and share information proportionally in a Multi-Agency environment
*Undertake chronology on children and young people.
*Support training across internal and multi-agency arena.
*Able to work with all staff groups offering advice and support in relation to the MASH.
*Ability to give and receive positive challenge and open discussion about practice, cases and decision making.
*Ability to respond appropriately to sensitive and /or difficult situation.
*Ability to work closely as part of a highly skilled safeguarding adult and children team.
*Be able to work independently, be flexible, and adaptable at work to meet competing priorities and deadlines.
*Maintain personal/professional development.
*Compliance with mandatory training and understanding mandatory procedures.
*Understanding of personal health and safety responsibilities
*Good understanding of the meaning of clinical and safeguarding supervision/mentoring
*Proven experience of leading the MASH agenda
*Experience of delivering training
*Understand complex analysis of risk for children and young people.
*Contribute to planning, implementing, and evaluating health and multi-agency audits.
*Identify potential training needs for staff.
Please refer to the job description.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Jane Mills
jane.mills20@nhs.net
Agenda for Change
Band 7
Permanent
Full-Time
348-COR-11458
Havant Civic Offices Civic Centre Road Havant Hampshire PO9 2AX