Children and Young People in Care Team Leader - Wednesfield, United Kingdom - The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

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Wednesfield, United Kingdom

4 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

To ensure safe and effective safeguarding practice To be professionally accountable for the maintenance of standards of professional practice as set by the Nursing & Midwifery Council or related professional body.

To participate in Individual Management Reviews (IMR) and Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews as required and directed by the Head of Safeguarding, ensuring dissemination of information post analysis to relevant departments both within and external to the Trust.

To lead on specific projects relating to Children and Young People in Care because of new or amended local or national policy as agreed with the Head of Safeguarding.

To contribute to the Trust Safeguarding Annual Report.

To chair Children and Young People in Care Team meetings and others as requested. To write and deliver regular reports for the Trust Safeguarding Group or others as requested.

To work with the Head of Safeguarding to ensure the development, provision, management, and implementation of appropriate information systems to collect and analyse highly complex data for safeguarding that meets relevant statutory and other governance requirements whilst complying with Caldicott and GDPR principles.

To work closely with the Trust Safeguarding Children and Adult Team Lead and other staff liaising and working collaboratively where there are shared work programmes and initiatives.

Ensure that advice reflects the interpretation of legislation, government and local policies and procedures.

Ensure that all policies regarding Children and Young People in Care are regularly reviewed and updated in line with local and national safeguarding requirements, with regular monitoring and reporting of compliance.

To work with the Head of Safeguarding to ensure that the Trust has a training strategy in line with local and national guidance (Intercollegiate Document, 2020) and to report on compliance.

Contribute to the work of the Wolverhampton Safeguarding Together Partnership through participation at allocated interagency meetings and groups To ensure that the Trust is represented at all relevant internal and regional Children and Young People in Care meetings/groups/forums.

Ensure there is a culture of continuous quality improvement using audit, patient feedback, and reflection on practice by self and other members of the team.

Ensure that the Trust is compliant with NICE guidance related to Children and Young People in Care. Identify risks relating to practice, developing, and implementing appropriate action plans accordingly. Engage in awareness of new practices or procedures (clinical and non-clinical) to develop the skills of self and team.

Support the development of Children and Young People in Care research within the Trust. Take timely action, as per Trust policy, when professional standards fall short of those acceptable.

Ensure learning from the root cause analyses of Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews, incidents, complaints, and claims are translated into learning and improvement within designated areas.

Ensure a high standard of personal and team record keeping in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council, national legislation, and local standards.

Promote a caring environment for team, where equality and diversity issues are respected, ensuring that everyone is treated with dignity and humanity, understanding individual needs, showing compassion, sensitivity, and respect To lead and develop the performance of the Children and Young People in Care Team To be a visible leader.

Demonstrate resilience and determined leadership in contexts that are unfamiliar, complex, and unpredictable.

Strive constantly to improve practice and safeguarding outcomes that they are consistent with or better than national and international standards through initiating, facilitating and leading change at individual, team, organisational and system levels.

Engage stakeholders and use high-level negotiating and influencing skills to develop and improve practice.

Work across professional, organisational and system boundaries and proactively develop and sustain new partnerships and networks to influence and improve health, outcomes, and healthcare delivery systems.

Provide line management for the Children in Care Team and act as a positive role model. Work with the Head of Safeguarding to lead on the implementation of various Trust strategies within the organisation. Develop and promote a positive culture within the team to enable continuous quality and service improvement.

Identify the need for change, proactively generate practice innovations and lead new practice and service redesign solutions to better meet the needs of staff and patients.

Act as a visible role model, creating a supportive ethos to empower staff. Ensure that the Children and Young People in Care Team take responsibility for the service they provide and answer for their own judgments and actions and carry out those actions in a way that meets the requirements of organisational and s