Designated Nurse Safeguarding Children

To fulfil the responsibility of the Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children in accordance with Working Together to Safeguard Children Guidance (2023), NHS England Safeguarding Accountability Framework (2022) and the Children Acts 1989 and 2004. The post holder will also have the responsibility to provide strong professional leadership to inform the strategic direction of Safeguarding in the locality of Tameside supporting the wider safeguarding agenda for NHS GM., To provide and promote an expert leadership role to support NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care (Tameside) in safeguarding children in line with corporate responsibility and national guidance and legislation., Greater Manchester Integrated Care is a fully authorised ICB responsible for the full range of ICB statutory duties and powers. Each Place Based Team within NHS GM aims is to improve the health of the people and reduce health inequalities through strong, clinically led commissioning of high-quality healthcare services.
The GM Integrated Care Partnership are helping organisations work better together with people and communities. We want people across all our boroughs to stay well, whatever their age, and whatever issues or conditions they might be managing. We're bringing together all the different organisations that support people's health and social care, so that services can join up and act faster when people need support.
This new NHS organisation, overseen by a Board, is in charge of the NHS money and making sure services are in place to put plans into action. Made up of representatives from the NHS and the local council. The partnership operates at three levels: neighbourhood, locality and Greater Manchester and has a single vision and strategy. Hospitals, GPs, community services, voluntary services and others have come together to form 'provider collaboratives' within all 3 levels, helping to join care and help people live well across our ten boroughs.
The role sits in the Safeguarding team which is part of a wider Directorate led by the Associate Director of Nursing, Quality and Safeguarding

Please note this vacancy may close early after a sufficient number of applications have been received.
Please also note that if you are short listed for interview you will be contacted via email and it is important that you check your email regularly. If you do not hear from us by four weeks after the closing date then you may assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.
As a fair collection notice for all NHS employees previous service details will be requested electronically from their previous employer.
The successful candidate will be subject to the completion of satisfactory probationary period.
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