Job summaryWe are currently seeking a passionate and highly experienced paediatric nurse who would like to develop their safeguarding skills. The ideal candidate will have some acute hospital experience or possess transferable skills that will contribute to 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 specialities, 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 heamatology and infectious disease services plus many many more.Main duties of the jobAs 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 support the delivery safeguarding training. 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.About usKind: we are considerate and thoughtful so everyone feels valued, respected and includedCollaborative: We actively seek others views and ideas so we can achieve more togetherExpert: We draw on diverse skills, knowledge and experience so we provide the best possible careAspirational: We are receptive and responsive to new thinking, so we never stop learning, discovering and improvingJob descriptionJob responsibilitiesAs a clinical expert, to lead the operational delivery & support the strategic delivery of safeguarding practice across the Trust in accordance with national, regional and local legislation, policies and recommendations, ensuring that holistic care is provided to children and their families by a well-trained and proactive workforce, ensuring that the Trust Safeguarding vision is achievedTo provide visible, effective leadership and expertise across the Trust, working closely with the clinical staff and external agencies to ensure children & unborns are safeguardedTo support the Head of Safeguarding and Named Nurse and specialist nurses to ensure the implementation of current safeguarding legislation and guidelines for children and young people across ICHT To work in partnership with a wide range of agencies to achieve the highest standards of careTo undertake research and audit in relation to safeguarding children and young people in order to gain new information and to inform future practiceTo help identify any obstacles in safeguarding processes and create solutionsKey stakeholdersConsultant Nurse for Safeguarding/ Head of Safeguarding Named NurseDoctor and Named Midwife for SafeguardingNamed Adult Safeguarding Nurse Divisional Directors of Nursing Head of Operations, Midwifery & NursingDesignated Doctors and NursesPatients and visitorsSupport & clinical staffFamily Liaison NursesSafeguarding, domestic abuse, learning disability & Redthread teamsKey areas of responsibilityEXPERT PRACTICE AND PRACTICE DEVELOPMENTBe the child's advocate and hear their voiceBe a role model for all clinical staff by practising safeguarding to the highest standard, whilst exercising a high degree of personal and professional autonomyProvide formal, regular and structured safeguarding supervision to more clinical staff and junior membersTo ensure they have regular case reviews in regards to complex cases and supervisionTo participate in learning reviews and serious incident notifications by completing chronologies etc.Advise on the nursing assessment of individual cases using a range of different assessment methods, which manage risk and are appropriate to needs, context and culture, including HEEADSS.To provide evidence based clinical advice on all aspects of practice in relation to children at risk/children in need/children at risk of significant harm.To identify good practice and practice that needs improvement and identify ways of solutions and sharing information.To promote anti-discriminatory practice as integral to the service delivery of all vulnerable children/children in need/children at risk of significant harm.To support the robustness of systems, policies, professional guidance and training programmes in place so that staff are able to identify children at risk at an early stage, contribute to safeguarding them from harm and assist in the provision of effective care for children and their families where abuse has occurred.Demonstrate commitment to develop own expertise, engaging with training opportunities in order to increase and disseminate specialist knowledge and awareness of professional and legal issues arising in safeguarding of children.Demonstrate resilience within the role by engaging in peer supervision and case reviews with senior safeguarding members.PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENTTo provide leadership and expert advice to all staff involved in safeguarding.Inspire colleagues to improve standards and quality of care and to develop professional practice in safeguarding.To provide expert advice to others outside of nursing and medical care.With the safeguarding team, to act as a catalyst for change, leading and influencing development of policy, practice and staff in the delivery of safeguarding practiceEDUCATION, TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENTSupport the design, implantation and evaluation of the Trust safeguarding children training and supervision.Alongside safeguarding leads update training slides and create training across the Trust.Ensure training areas are conductive to learning about safeguarding.Participate in external training.RESEARCH, AUDIT AND EVALUATIONWork within a framework for setting, monitoring and auditing standards, encouraging benchmarking to improve quality.To play a supportive role across the Trust in the development of quality and safety initiative frameworks to secure quality improvements for safeguarding childrens practice alongside the Lead Professionals.Collate data and populate the scorecard as requiredGeneral responsibilitiesKEY RESULT AREAS:To lead on addressing the safeguarding children and young people agenda Trust wideProvide expert advice, practice and support for colleagues providing clinical and safeguarding care with the childProvide expert practice in safeguarding childrenWith the safeguarding team, support the achievement of the Trust Safeguarding Children and Young People StrategyWith the safeguarding team, support the audit and research of safeguarding practice in the Trust Support the production of reports, policies and guidelines related to safeguarding children and which can be used by children Support on the production of reports, policies and guidelines related to the current guidelines and policies. Work in conjunction with the Head of Safeguarding/Consultant Nurse of Safeguarding team to deliver good safeguarding evidence based carePerson SpecificationQualificationsEssentialNMC RegistrationDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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.UK RegistrationApplicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).Employer detailsEmployer nameImperial College Healthcare NHS TrustAddressThe BaysS Wharf RoadLondonW2 1NYEmployer's websitehttps://www.imperial.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)