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Child Death Review Specialist Nurse
The closing date is 08 July 2026
An unique opportunity has arisen in the newly joined Norfolk & Suffolk Child Death Review Team for a new member to join our existing team. This is a substantive post in a team who will be moving from Norfolk and Suffolk ICB to a provider.
The post holder will be expected to support the Child Death Review Process as defined in Working Together (2023), Child Death Review Statutory Guidance (2018) and Kennedy Report (2016) under the management of the Lead Child Death Review Nurse. They will contribute to the extensive information gathering following all deaths.
This post has two elements to it:
1) Completing statutory Child Death Reviews for all children who die, and main residence is Suffolk or Norfolk and are under 18 years olds this includes neonatal, expected, and unexpected deaths.
2) Acting as the key worker for families as defined in When a Child Dies (2018) and Child Death Review Statutory Guidance (2018) providing high quality, evidence-based support to grieving families.
Due to the nature of the work, evidence of clear effective communication skills is essential. The post holder will be required to work collaboratively with colleagues across a wide range of multidisciplinary teams including medical and nursing, teams in hospital, children’s community teams, primary care, police, coronial service, social services, education, housing, and the voluntary sector.
Main duties of the job
The post holders key responsibility will be on behalf Norfolk and Suffolk ICBs Children’s Safeguarding Designated Team to implement, co-ordinate and manage all Child Death Reviews in accordance with local and national policies and legislation as set out on Suffolk Safeguarding Partnership website.
To respond to all Joint Agency Response (JAR) as detailed in the Sudden Unexpected Deaths in Infancy and Childhood Protocol (SUDIC).
Arrange and attend internal and external Child Death Review Meetings (and if required, chair those meetings); this includes Strategy Discussions, Multi Agency Meetings, Child Death Review Meetings, Child Death Overview Panel Meetings, and any other appropriate meeting e.g. Neonatal Morbidity and Mortality Meetings including PMRT Meetings.
The post holder will undertake, review and where necessary, update protocols for practice for the Child Death Review, ensuring that protocol and response times are monitored and evaluated.
Oversee the completion and coordination of the standard forms used in the child death review process: Notification, Reporting, Analysis for any case on the CDR Nurse caseload.
Remain clinically credible and on appropriate nursing/midwifery register.
About us
We manage an annual budget of £4.9billion to commission safe, highquality and accessible health services for 1.7million people living in Norfolk and Suffolk.
We work with hospitals, GP practices, dentists, pharmacies, community, mental health and ambulance services, alongside local councils and voluntary organisations, to improve care. We involve local communities in shaping decisions and use their insights to improve services. As a statutory NHS organisation, we are accountable to NHS England and the UK Government.
Our role is to ensure services meet current and future needs by setting local NHS strategy, allocating funding, maintaining quality and safety standards, improving access, reducing health inequalities and enabling joinedup care.
Norfolk and Suffolk include rural, coastal and deprived communities, with an olderthanaverage population. Around half of residents live in rural or coastal areas, where access can be harder, and about 219,000 people live in the most deprived areas, where early deaths are significantly higher. These factors shape our planning and focus on reducing inequalities.
Our vision is for people to live longer, healthier lives with access to safe, joinedup, patientcentred care. We prioritise improving healthy life expectancy, reducing inequalities and ensuring consistent access to highquality services.
We work across five local Places and partner with NHS providers, councils, the VCFSE sector and communities to deliver locally responsive care.
Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.
The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.
Person Specification
Analytical
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
Other
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust.
- Good time keeping.
- Works flexibly with the ability to re-prioritising workload to meet the needs of the service.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team. Team player including an awareness of impact on others and effective contribution to group discussion
- Adaptability, flexibility, and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
- Demonstrate a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Full Driving Licence and use of car. Ability to travel independently across the region and occasionally beyond
Communication Skills
- Ability to Chair Multi-organisational meetings
- Skills for communication on complex matters, difficult situations, requiring negotiating, persuasive and influencing skills.
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Exercise personal judgement when dealing with a range of factors / issues that may involve managers, colleagues, stakeholders and service users
- Excellent time management skills with the ability to re-prioritise; Plans and organises own work, resolving conflicting situations and matters.
- Attention to detail combined with the ability to extract key messages from complex analysis independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills.
- The ability to challenge constructively, and motivate individuals, groups, and organisations.
Experience
- Minimum 5 years post registration experience demonstrating a wide knowledge, understanding of working with children and their families. Must already be in a band 6/7 role.
- Experience of working in partnership between health, police and social care.
- Experience of delivering training programmes to multi agency groups/forums.
- Designing and implementing audits.
- Producing guidance or procedures and/or analytical reports.
- Negotiating with senior practitioners to resolve differences of opinion and conflict.Providing professional supervision to peers or junior staff.
- Specialist Knowledge in relation to child deaths and working with children and families, including some where child welfare concerns have been integral to the role and where critical thinking and analysis of complex cases has been required or evidenced.
- Knowledge and understanding of the legislation and principles of information sharing in relation to child deaths and vulnerable children.
- Role/function of other statutory agencies
- Knowledge of health inequalities and issues of diversity.
- Intermediate working knowledge of IT systems and software programmes such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Experience of involvement in investigations, PMRTS, SUDICs, PSIRFs or Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews.
- Leadership and Management experience to degree level
- Bereavement training or experience working with bereaved families.
- Advising Commissioners of service development.
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders.
- Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools.
Qualifications
- Registered nurse or midwife, with post registration experience
- ENB 998 or teaching/training qualifications
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent experience.
- Safeguarding adults and children experience and training (level 3 and above)
Autonomy
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Able to work to a high degree of independence but participate in team activities with colleagues within multi-disciplinary teams.
- Case load and hold responsibilities for the completion of Child Death Reviews.
- Able to demonstrate the ability to plan, adapt and organise a broad range of work programmes, relating to child deaths, which require the formulation and adjustment of plans/ strategies in accordance with the requirements of the role
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium, and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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