Specialist Safeguarding Children Advisor

at  CSH Surrey

The primary focus of this role is to work within the Children Safeguarding Team and utilise specialist knowledge and skills to advise and support CSH Surrey staff in terms of safeguarding. This includes supporting practitioners in raising concerns and ensuring that the relevant policies and procedures are followed in regards to the subject matters. Improve the quality of safeguarding across the whole of CSH through the implementation of lessons identified from case reviews locally and nationally, DHRs, and audits. Provide expert health advice to multi-agency professionals within Surrey MAP and support MAP enquiries with health information appropriate to safeguarding children.
Provide health information and support strategic decision making in Safeguarding Strategy discussions; Child Sexual Exploitation and Child Criminal Exploitation Risk Management Meetings and Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) meetings. Provide support to staff in the preparation of reports for and attendance at child protection case conferences and other interagency/professional meetings as the need arises. To support analysis of health information and help identify vulnerable children who have accessed health care services and ensure that the relevant health professionals are informed and an action plan is identified. To provide a robust and safe communication system for the effective flow of information between hospitals and community health professionals and other agencies.
To support the implementation of standards, audit and initiatives to promote the safety and well-being of children within CSH Surrey. Ensure that incidents that require investigation are reported to the Named Nurse and the appropriate steps are taken to report incidents in line with policy and procedures. To support practitioners and ensure that local Escalation Policy (SSCP and SSAB) is utilised appropriately. Support analysis and evaluation of the health information contribution to the MAP and participate in audit processes when working in the MAP and ensure that learnings are shared and also embedded into practice.
Support a process to identify need and harm and highlight children and young people who are known to have repeated referrals with no positive outcomes or repeated missed appointments and where required share with other professionals when working in the community or in the MAP. Ensure that administrative staff process information to safeguard children in a safe and timely manner. Deliver training to raise the awareness of staff in terms of safeguarding children. Provide highly specialised advice, support, and supervision to CSH Surrey staff on all aspects of safeguarding children at risk including the raising ofconcerns, engaging in safeguarding processes and providing reports for conferences.
Work alongside the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children to support any Serious Case Reviews, Domestic Homicide Reviews, and internal investigations to ensure the lessons learnt and action plans are identified, implemented and embeddedacross CSH Surreyservices. Provide advice, support and training to ensure CSH Surrey are compliant with the requirements of the Children Act (1989 and 2004), Care Act (2014) and Intercollegiate Guidance (children) and relevantlegislation. Assess complex situations and sensitive information relating to children safeguarding and support robust risk assessment, care planning anddecision making in line with relevant local and national policy andguidance. Comply with NMC and CSH Surrey record keeping and information governance legislation and guidance in relation to confidential informationand electronicsystems.
Support the Named Nurse with providing performance data relating to safeguarding children supervision, safeguarding concerns, Strategy discussions, Risk Management Meetings (RMM) and MARAC data required and any emerging themes and safeguardingtraining data Support the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children with the design and completion of clinical audits and tools to measure clinical effectiveness and provide assurance, enabling internal benchmarking and sharing of good practice across the organisation, through analysis and interpretation of results/findings in regard to safeguarding. Provide children safeguarding supervision for relevantCSH Surrey staff. Take the lead for a specialist area for CSH as requested, e.g. DA, FGM, and Neglect etc.
Work alongside the Named Nurses and wider Quality and Governance Team for Safeguarding Children to support any Child Case Reviews, Serious Incidents, Domestic Homicide Reviews and internal investigations to ensure the lessons learnt and action plans are identified, implemented and embedded across CSH Surrey services. Contribute to the identification of risks relating to children safeguarding. Service and Police development Support the Named Nurses for Safeguarding Children with the implementation and leadership of discrete projects within the CSH Surrey Children SafeguardingTeam. Support the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children in the review and development of safeguarding to ensure efficient, effective and innovative systems and practice are in place.
Support the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children with quarterly and annual reporting cycles/reports and audit programmes as identified by the CSH Surrey Board, Surrey Safeguarding Children Partnership,andother relevant externalstakeholders. Assess complex situations and sensitive information relating to safeguarding and support robust risk assessment, care planning and decision making in line with relevant local and national policy and guidance. Support the Named Nurses for Safeguarding Children withthedevelopment of safeguarding children policies, guidelines and standards for CSH Surrey and ensure they are updated to reflect best practice as informed by safeguarding case review, domestic homicide review, audits, new legislation and nationalguidance. Be responsible for receipt of reports of safeguarding incidents/risks communicating the information to health care practitioners ensuring all the relevant issues and actions are understood and that the practitioner feels able to deal with the situation.
Support the implementation of and learning from National Best Practice and research as appropriate across the organisation. Education and Training Deliver CSH Surreys training and where appropriate multi-agency, safeguarding training as in line with the Intercollegiate Guidance (children) and the CSH Surrey relevant policies and procedures. Delivery of CSH Surreys induction, refresher and safeguarding training including FGM, Domestic Abuse and Graded Care Profile Work in collaboration with the Learning and Development team to ensure training is evaluated with regard to effectiveness and monitor training compliance to ensure acceptable levels of compliance aremaintained. Demonstrate high level teaching and communication skills and the ability to facilitate learning in one to one, small groups and largegroups.
Demonstrate competent IT skills to support the development and delivery of teachingprogrammes. Able to engage diverse groups of co-owners at all levels within the organisation, tailoring information to their specific requirements/needs. Provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, where persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic or re-assurance skills are required. Knowledge and Skills Maintain own knowledge and skills and undertake training compliant with CSH Surrey policy and NMCguidance.
Engage in professional development as part of CSH Surrey Appraisalprocess. Advanced clinical supervision skills to be able to provide clinical supervision to appropriate CSH Surrey staff as well as safeguarding supervision on an ad-hoc, group and one to one basis. Audit, Research and Performance Monitoring Development and report on performance and audit as relating to safeguarding. Conduct audits under the direction of the Named Nurses for Safeguarding Children, including the analysis of data, formulation of recommendations, writing and presentation of reports and implementation of actionplans.
Contribute to the production of quarterly and annual performance reports as required. Undertake clinical research in line with CSH Surrey requirement and sharelearning as appropriate Professional Development Practice in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and all other appropriate NMC guidelines ensuring knowledge, and ensure that skills and competencies aremaintained. Adhere to CSH Surrey policies andprocedures. Establish and maintain professional networks with safeguarding professionals in Health and wider external partneragencies.
Undertake further post graduate training/professional development asappropriate Engage in clinical and safeguarding supervision compliant with CSH Surrey policies. Be accountable for his/her own clinical/nursing practice and take reasonable opportunity to maintain and develop professional competence, knowledge and expertise, including Post Registration Education & Practice. Help to create a culture of proactive prevention and learnings from safeguarding incidents in liaison with corporate and operational clinical leads by identifying and implementing quality improvement programmes and initiatives to improve clinical practice. Be an advocate for quality, governance, safeguarding and risk management throughout CSH and lead by example.
Communication skills: Able to communicate very complex and sensitive information safely and at an appropriate level relevant to the person receiving the information. Able to communicate using telephone, email and by any other identified medium in a safe manner compliant with CSH Surrey policy

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