Deputy Designate for Safeguarding Children and Children Looked AfterNHS
Job summary
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This is a middle-grade clinical/professional post within the Safeguarding Children, Adults and Looked After Children Team, serving the population of Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work under delegated and shared responsibility from the Chief Nursing Officer/Chief Executive Officer to ensure that the Integrated Care Board (ICB) meets its statutory Safeguarding Children responsibilities. This includes leading on the development, implementation and publication of key safeguarding documents, policies and assurance reports across the organisation, and supporting the delivery of safe, effective safeguarding practice in line with national legislation and local partnership requirements.
Job description
Provide clinical and professional leadership for safeguarding children and looked after children, within NHS HIOW and advising and supporting a wide range of professionals and agencies across the health community. The post holder will ensure that short-, medium- and long-term safeguarding children and looked after children work programmes and services are planned, delivered, monitored and evaluated effectively, working effectively alongside other designated and safeguarding professionals.
Provide specialist assistance in individual cases, where there are concerns about unmet physical and emotional needs for children, assisting the local authority and other key partners in identifying creative solutions to overcome obstacles and achieve positive outcomes for the child.
Use their communication and leadership skills to inform and influence the local, regional and national agenda for safeguarding children and looked after children, ensuring services improve the health of children.
Support and provide specialist advise other clinical professionals on the management of all forms of children maltreatment, including relevant legal frameworks and documentation and signposting.
Ensure that relevant assessments of children and their families are undertaken by health care professionals and that health care and safety plans are implemented and monitored to the required standards detailed in statutory guidance, assuring the direct involvement of the children and their family/carers as appropriate and where consent allows.
Provide advice and reports to Governing Body/Board members, senior managers and practitioners across health and social care and ensure that place-based clinical members are fully engaged.
Be required to have regular contact with internal and external stakeholders and will often need to engage with them over sensitive, complex, contentious and confidential issues.
Present in both verbal and written form, sensitive and highly complex information and issues, explaining complexities, to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
About us
We offer excellent employment opportunities to new and existing staff. We aim to be a model employer by embedding best HR practice and to support new ways of working.
We pride ourselves on offering good working conditions, job security, lifelong learning, fair pay and benefits, staff involvement and a balance between work and personal life.
We enjoy a forward thinking and innovative culture and our vision is to have healthy people, living healthy lives in healthy communities. We understand the only way to deliver this is to have the right people with the right skills.
Here is a summary of some of the benefits and services which are on offer to staff:
27 days paid minimum holiday and bank holiday entitlement
NHS pension scheme
Sick pay policy
Occupational health services including staff counselling services
Flexible working and family friendly policies
Flexible retirement and retirement vouchers
Health Service Discounts - offers for stores, travel, equipment etc.
Successful candidates will be subject to a six-month probationary period.