Safeguarding Specialist Nurse

We are excited to announce a vacancy for the position of Safeguarding Specialist Nurse in North Essex.

This is a part time permanent position.

The post holder will act as an expert resource within HCRG Care Group, working in collaboration with managers and clinicians of all disciplines, providing expert advice to ensure effective delivery of clinical services in accordance with the contractual commitments and associated regulations. The post holder will work with the Safeguarding Named Nurse to deliver an effective support function in their specialist area and support teams to deliver high quality and effective care. The post holder may be responsible for managing a delegated team.

Base

The base is Lanswood Park, Colchester, CO7 7FD.

We currently work both from home and from the base. There is an expectation that some travel within the quadrant and across Essex will be required.

This post is responsible for

Being part of a team providing the highest quality safeguarding service to our colleagues in Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Services.

Package DescriptionAs a Safeguarding Specialist Nurse, you will be part of our amazing team in North Essex.

You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

Band 7 Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
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 services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission. 

 
Main Responsibilities
To work autonomously to make decisions of the highest complexity with the subject they are leading and to identify and manage associated risks accordingly.
 To support the delivery and development of improved performance across all clinical and non clinical services within the organisation; specifically within the subject they are leading.
 Promote quality improvement across all services areas.
 To take responsibility for the monitoring of; and where necessary, working with service leads to improve upon contractual KPIs relating to their subject matter.
 Leads on specific programmes of work as directed by the Safeguarding Named Nurse.

The Ideal CandidateYou will be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, have a degree in relevant subject area or equivalent experience.

You will have a keen interest and experience in Safeguarding Children.

You will have experience in mentorship.

You may have a teaching and assessing qualification.

You may have the Safeguarding Supervision Skills Training.

We have built organisation-wide committees in many specialist fields. You’ll have the option to join your clinical specialism, networking with professionals from across the country. We get together regularly, auditing and sharing standard methodology for innovation and service re-design. You’ll be a part of the pool of subject matter experts bringing together clinical and operational leads. You will be a part of quality improvements, research and development activity. Here we recognise and celebrate clinical excellence and dedication.

You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
About The CompanyWe 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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