Safeguarding Children Advisor

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

We are actively seeking a dedicated Safeguarding Children Advisor for our London Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and All Age Eating Disorder (ED) Services. The post holder will have responsibility to ensure high quality safeguarding children practice is delivered across these services. This is an exciting role, working alongside CAMHS and ED and the CNWL Safeguarding Team who deliver our Safeguarding Children agenda across the Trust.
We currently deliver CAMHS and ED services across Hillingdon, Harrow, Brent, Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster. These areas include a range of settings that include core CAMHS, inpatients, schools and urgent care services.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
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You will be responsible for providing expert safeguarding children leadership to our London CAMHS and ED services. You will need to be able to provide professional advice, safeguarding children supervision, education and training to all staff within our CAMHS and ED services. You will be required to work in partnership with a wide range of professionals and agencies to support the safeguarding children agenda.
You will also be required to support other Trust services for advice and training when required.
The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic, sense of accountability, accompanied by an ability to work under considerable pressure at times. This post is open to anyone with a Nurse and / or Social Work qualification with the right attribute to enhance a team, which provides CAMHS and ED services across a large diverse Trust.
If you are someone with a passion for ensuring the safeguarding needs of all children and young people in mental health services, this could be the job for you. You will be well supported within the CAMHS service as well as benefitting from a wider safeguarding children team within the Trust.
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 7,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London’s population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options. See attached Staff Reward and Wellbeing Handbook detailing our benefits, discounts and wellbeing initiatives for staff.
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
To have excellent knowledge of local/national policies and procedures that are relevant to health care provision for vulnerable children, including a working knowledge of the relevant legislation, government guidance and recommendations of serious case reviews.
To provide clinical leadership, expert advice and support on safeguarding children issues to practitioners, managers and other staff across CNWL CAMHS and ED services .
Have the ability to make judgments about highly complex situations, requiring analysis, interpretation and comparisons of a range of options and escalation of concerns where necessary.
Support managers to ensure safeguarding children supervision is provided across CNWL services and where required provide individual or group safeguarding supervision .
To lead and contribute to quality improvement initiatives across CNWL where improvements have impact on safeguarding children .
Support practitioners in multi-agency working such as attendance at child protection conferences/strategy meetings and in the preparation of written reports for conferences and legal proceedings.
Assist with the collection of data and presentation of reports, advising managers on the implications for service and planning.
To ensure that clinical governance principles are an integral part of all safeguarding children arrangements.
In conjunction with the Named Nurse/Professional contribute to the Local Safeguarding Children Partnership [LSCB] activity through sub groups or task and finish groups.
Liaise with local Children’s Services MASH teams and provide health information as appropriate and contribute to multi-agency planning and decision making

Please refer the Job description for details