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The Assistant Director of Nursing for Safeguarding Children and Cared for Children will provide expert professional safeguarding leadership and assurance to the organisation in regards to Safeguarding children, young people, Cared for Children and maternity services across the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder will provide leadership and direct line management to the Named Nurses and midwife for Safeguarding Children, Cared for Children and Maternity service for each care organisation within the Northern Care Alliance
Main duties of the job
The post holder will support the Associate Director of Nursing for Safeguarding in the delivery of the Northern Care Alliance’s Statutory Safeguarding responsibilities, leading a high performing, responsive safeguarding service that focuses on the safeguarding, health and wellbeing of Children and young people. They will work alongside the Assistant director of nursing (ADN) for Safeguarding adults to develop a think family approach to safeguarding across the Trust.
The post holder will provide expert leadership to the Safeguarding Children and Care for Children agendas and safeguarding in maternity services for the Northern Care Alliance.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website: https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/working-with-us/our-values/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as an Registered Nurse or Midwife in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC PIN within the next 3 months. Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.
The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses and Midwives who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receive a full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website: https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/register-nurse-midwife/trained-outside-uk/how-to-guide/
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person specification
Registration
Essential criteria
- NMC Registered Nurse or Midwife or Specialist Community public health nurse
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First degree or equivalent in a health related topic
- Masters Qualification (or working towards) in safeguarding or related subject or equivalent experience.
- Leadership or management Course
- Training on Mental Capacity Act MCA
Knowledge, training and experience
Essential criteria
- Five years experience of which 3 years experience in Safeguarding at a senior level in nursing / midwifery
- Evidence of extensive expert professional knowledge in area supplemented by specialist managerial / leadership training and CPD
- Experience in attending and participating in multi-agency partnership forums representing own organisation on safeguarding matters
- Evidence of relevant involvement in meeting clinical governance objectives
- Experience of dealing with highly complex safeguarding cases and incidents involving children, young people and families
- Evidence of implementing and translating policy/ governmental recommendations into operational practice
- Experience in dealing with highly contentious and emotive information and advising on management of sensitive cases
- Extensive knowledge of national safeguarding legislation and policies
- Ability to work with senior managers to influence and implement recommendations from Child Safeguarding Practice reviewsand Domestic homicide reviews and contributing to Safeguarding adult Reviews when required.
Desirable criteria
- Development of safeguarding pathways, standards and service models
- Good working and strategic knowledge of MCA and understanding of application to the court of protection for Children and Young people under 18 years
- Understanding of arrangements for Deprivations of Liberty safeguards for adults and those deprivations relevant to Children.
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate highly complex and sensitive information to improve outcomes and practice
- Evidence of persuasive and strong influencing skills and the ability to manage conflict
- Ability to analyse complex health and safeguarding information to support liaison legal services where necessary
- Evidence of effective people management and leadership skills
- Effectively and professionally challenge other professionals and senior leaders to ensure the needs of the child are paramount in decision making
- Proven record of leading and effectively managing change both but within staff groups but also of systems across organisations
- Ability to translate complex safeguarding information in reports and direct escalations to very senior managers to ensure messages are clearly understood and acted upon.
- Ability to raise concerns internally and externally to ensure children, young people and vulnerable groups are appropriately safeguarded
We reserve the right to close the online vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and return your application form as soon as possible.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.
We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and Maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.
We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex-personnel, and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met). As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact resourcingnca@nca.nhs.uk
In applying for this post, you give the Trust permission to use your data for recruitment purposes.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.
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Applicant requirements
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.
