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It is a very exciting time to be joining The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust. A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced registered practitioner to join the Safeguarding Team in the role of Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children. This role is a job share and advertised as a 0.40 WTE with another Named Nurse for Children working 0.60 WTE

You will be joining a highly experienced safeguarding team. You will be required to provide input to the Trusts Safeguarding Advice Service, safeguarding training provision and policy development as well as contributing to the progress of the safeguarding work plan.

• Be responsible for ensuring that the organisation meets its statutory requirements in respect of safeguarding children and young people and Think Family agenda
• Lead on the development of policies and procedures, implementing national guidance at a local level
• Effectively coordinate and communicate Safeguarding children activity to promote the welfare of children and young people. This will include ensuring coordination of safeguarding children supervision
• Provide clinical expertise and advice in relation to Safeguarding for all staff. The expertise will guide and promote the embedding of the principles of safe practice relating to safeguarding children and young people and Think Family to protect and safeguard children, young people and adults into everyday professional practice
• Contribute to the Prevent agenda across the adults and children safeguarding remi

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart– Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence– Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration– Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

You will be joining a well-established safeguarding team in the organisation. This post is a job share, shared with an experienced named nurse for safeguarding children.

The responsibilities of your role will include cross organisational and partnership working at both strategic and operational levels, working closely with other agencies to address the safeguarding children and think family agenda

You will lead on developing a robust training strategy and comprehensive training programme to meet safeguarding educational/training requirements for all staff.

I would be delighted to have an informal conversation to discuss the role in more detail.