Safeguarding Children Clinical Nurse Specialist

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our well-established safeguarding children's nursing team. You will be required to provide specialist safeguarding advice, education and support to health care professionals and patients.

As a nurse specialist you will ensure that the needs of vulnerable children are recognised and acted upon. The role is a patient facing role and you will have daily contact with vulnerable children and their families. You will be required to undertake direct safeguarding assessments with children and families and ensure that the right support and services are put in place to meet their needs.

You will be working side by side with clinical teams. Accessibility and visibility across all trust areas of the post holder is vital.

You will work closely with professionals and external partner organisations. You will be required to attend safeguarding strategy meetings and be able to be part of risk management decision making and planning. Critical thinking, analytical processing and adaptability to changing circumstances are essential requirements.

You will be expected to create an environment of continuous quality improvement and develop safeguarding practice across services; this will be through delivering safeguarding children training, visible leadership, knowledge and expertise in all aspects of safeguarding children.

• Act as a role model, demonstrating high standards of care and providing expert and professional clinical leadership in safeguarding related matters.
• Demonstrate appropriate expert practice and highly specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care.
• To work within the safeguarding nursing team in managing and overseeing practitioners and their cases of vulnerable children and families whilst working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised care.
• Directly supervise, support, and advise clinical teams, by the provision of specialist knowledge and advice in relation to the safeguarding of children.
• To identify vulnerable children, young people and families early and provide effective programmes of support and care that protects and promotes their health and wellbeing.
• To contribute to child protection case conferences and strategy meetings in order to plan effectively to ensure optimum outcomes for vulnerable children.
• Participate in the delivery of safeguarding children training.
• Provide regular supervision to practitioners in the acute setting of the Trust

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Debbie Saunders

Job title:

Head of Nursing Safeguarding Children Email address:  Telephone number: