Clinical Nurse Specialist - Safeguarding Children & Young People inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED
TUE 12 NOV 2024
The position includes weekend work from 9 to 5, and the chosen individual will be mentored by the safeguarding team. The role allows for the development of clinical safeguarding expertise while working closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.
We are currently seeking a passionate and highly experienced nurse with a strong background in managing safeguarding cases or situations. The ideal candidate will have some acute hospital experience or possess transferrable skills that will contribute to the our dedicated teams safeguarding agenda.
This role enables the successful candidate to develop their clinical expertise relating to safeguarding children and young people. You will gain experience within the role by covering all of our 5 sites. You will cover many different specialties, including our trauma services, our specialist eye hospital, 2 accident and emergency departments, 3 urgent care centres, sexual health services and our inpatient paediatric services such as general medicine, paediatric intensive care and specialist hematology and infectious disease services plus many many more.
We are fortunate to work with in a large integrated safeguarding team. The team consists of Named Nurses for Children and Adults, a Consultant Nurse, Named Midwife, Named Doctor, Safeguarding midwives, Safeguarding nurses for both children and adults, a Domestic abuse nurse, learning disability staff and administrators.
The team work over the weekend between the hours of 9 -5 so weekend working would be part of the hours of working for the role.
As part of the day to day role we will triage all children under 18 attendances to unscheduled care, liaise and information share with external agencies, e.g. health visitors, school nurses, social workers, integrated gang unit workers, social workers and Redthread, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of the children.
You will deliver safeguarding training to staff as well as provide safeguarding supervision You will advocate for children in a variety of safeguarding meetings and work collaboratively with other members of the multidisciplinary team. You will be supported and mentored by the safeguarding team, named nurses and consultant nurse.
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