Deputy Designated Nurse Safeguarding

Job Overview

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board is seeking an enthusiastic individual with a passion for improving outcomes for children, young people and care leavers to join our Safeguarding Team as Deputy Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children and Looked After Children.

This strategic role provides safeguarding leadership, advice and assurance, supporting the ICB to meet its statutory responsibilities in line with the NHS England Safeguarding Accountability and Assurance Framework (SAAF). Working with designated professionals, commissioned services and system partners, you will strengthen safeguarding governance, provider assurance, partnership working and quality improvement. You will support learning from reviews and audits, identify risks and help ensure childrens voices inform commissioning and system improvement.

We are looking for an experienced safeguarding practitioner with strong leadership, analytical and influencing skills, able to provide advice and professional challenge.

The postholder will:

• Support the Designated Nurse in providing strategic and professional safeguarding leadership across the South Yorkshire health and care system.
• Provide expert advice, guidance and constructive professional challenge on complex, sensitive or contentious safeguarding matters.
• Support the ICB to fulfil its statutory safeguarding responsibilities and provide assurance in line with the NHS England Safeguarding Accountability and Assurance Framework.
• Develop and maintain robust safeguarding governance and assurance arrangements across NHS-funded and commissioned services.
• Work collaboratively with designated professionals, NHS providers, local authorities, safeguarding partnerships and other system partners to strengthen safeguarding arrangements and improve outcomes.
• Build effective relationships across organisational boundaries, influencing strategic policy, service development and commissioning decisions.
• Contribute to the development and monitoring of safeguarding standards, key performance indicators, quality measures and improvement plans.
• Analyse complex qualitative and quantitative information to identify themes, risks, gaps and opportunities for system improvement.

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board oversees health and social care for a population of 1.4m people. Working through our 4 places, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield, we are building on the strengths, capacity and knowledge of all those directly involved with our local communities to deliver our four key aims of Improving outcomes in population health and healthcare;
Tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience and access;
Enhancing productivity and value for money; and Helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.

Our near 1,000 staff are committed to addressing the broader health, public health, and social care needs of the population across South Yorkshire through our values of One Team, Empowered and Innovative. We work as a key partner with the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) of health and care providers within the South Yorkshire Integrated Care System (ICS) to collectively deliver health and care services that meet the needs of the local population.

In total there are 186 GP practices in the region, 72,000 health and social care professionals working across seven NHS trusts and four local authorities, and a further 6,000 voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE) organisations. We work alongside all these colleagues through local councils, our VCSE partners and other partners to address health inequalities and wider determinants of health in South Yorkshire.

South Yorkshire ICB is a Disability Confident Employer