Job responsibilities
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Ensure
safeguarding is embedded in all staff and volunteer recruitment processes.
Be available to
all staff for advice / support around safeguarding children and adults at
risk issues.
Ensure all deepend
practice staff have attended mandatory and pertinent safeguarding children
and adults training.
Provide advice and
guidance to all practice staff around safeguarding issues and assess and
support staff to make referrals to the local safeguarding team.
Support to send
high quality written reports to key meetings pertaining to a family where
there are concerns around a child, i.e. child protection case conferences,
strategic planning meetings and pre-birth planning meetings.
To act as a single
point of contact for local safeguarding professionals, including having
oversight and coordination responsibilities for any meeting invitations
and attendance on behalf of deepend practices.
On behalf of deepend
practices attend local safeguarding meetings including MARAC, MAPPA strategy
meetings, child protection conferences, at risk adult meetings, rapid
review meetings and other relevant meetings.
and similar forums as required and coordination information sharing and
actions arising from these.
To maintain
regular contact with local safeguarding services to ensure effective
communication and working practice.
To provide monthly
safeguarding supervision for all deepend practice staff members and
provide ad-hoc guidance on safeguarding cases as they arise. To facilitate
MDT safeguarding meeting liaising with the wider health team including,
maternity services and 0 19 teams
Attend such
meetings alongside colleagues, where there is any significant difference
of opinion around preferred course of action or assessment of risk. Raise
a professional challenge with outside agencies such as the local authority
if the situation were to arise
Investigate all
safeguarding issues which involve the death or serious injury of a child,
where criminal charges have been brought against a client or where there
are safeguarding children or adult at risk concerns around a member of
staff, volunteer or recovery mentor/broker,
Report any
allegations against staff to the Local Authority Designated Officer
(LADO).
Undertake audit
and regular quality control exercises, gathering information relating to
trends and patterns, and relay to deepend practices.
Raise the profile
of the safeguarding agenda within deepend practices ensuring safeguarding
issues and case presentations are standing agenda items in all team
meetings.
Alongside the
individual practices safeguarding lead cascade learning and practice
guidance from national and local forums to all practice staff.
Liaise with
individual practices safeguarding lead to ensure risk and/or parenting
capacity assessments are conducted where clients are pregnant, have the
care of children or have substantial contact with children.
Ensure Mental
Capacity principles are adhered to when working with adults at risk.
Develop a
safeguarding flagging system with all practices, utilise SystmOne / EMIS
and ensure parity of information across systems.
Co-ordinate
complex case review process across the deepend practices and represent the
deepend practices at complex case meetings.
Conduct random
file audits periodically to assess safeguarding children and adults at
risk practice and record-keeping, action plan to address any gaps, and
make recommendations to team where relevant.
Quality:
The
post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:
Alert other team members to issues
of quality and ris
Assess own
performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or
under supervision
Contribute to
the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and
making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
Work
effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients' needs
Effectively manage own time,
workload and resources
Communication:
The
post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within
the team and will strive to:
Communicate effectively with other
team members
Communicate effectively with
patients and carers
Recognise peoples needs for
alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly
Personal
and Professional Development
Take responsibility for own development, learning and
performance.
Participate in an annual individual performance review and
take responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and professional
development.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
For
further information regarding knowledge, skills and experience required for
this role please refer to the Person Specification.
Collaborative Working
The deepend practices are focused on building
relationships with other local health and social care providers for the benefit
of effective Primary Care service delivery to our patient population.
Recognise
the roles of other colleagues within the practices and in other organisations
and their role to patient care.
Demonstrate
use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant
stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other
professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. ICBs).
Demonstrate
ability to work as a member of a team.
Recognise
personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.
Actively
work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both
within and outside the practice, PCNs and locality.
Foster
and maintain strong links with all services across locality.
Explore
the potential for collaborative working and take opportunities to initiate and
sustain such relationships.
Demonstrate
ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital teams.
Liaise
with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients.
Personal
Management:
Recognise
and work within own competence.
Prioritise,
organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes
quality.
Education, Training and Development
Participate
in relevant training programmes.
Maintain
a statutory and mandatory training record.
Health and Safety
The
post-holder must comply at all times with the Practice at which they are
working in Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed safe
working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisations Incident
Reporting System.
The
post-holder will comply with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Access to
Health Records Act
Confidentiality
Information relating to patients, practice business, PCN business, GP
Partners and practice staff is strictly
confidential. It is a
condition of this employment that you will not use or disclose any confidential
information obtained in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018
Equality and Diversity
The
post-holder must co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure
equality of employment. Co-workers,
patients and service users must be treated equally irrespective of gender,
ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.
Job Description Agreement
This
job description is intended to provide an outline of the key tasks and
responsibilities only. There may be other duties required of the post-holder
commensurate with the position.
This
job description will be open to regular review and may be amended to take into
account development within the deepend practices and its priorities.
This
job description is intended as a basic guide to the scope and responsibilities
of the post and is not exhaustive. It will be subject to regular review and
amendment as necessary in consultation with the post holder.
PLEASE
NOTE:
This post
is subject to a DBS check at an enhanced level.
Amendments:
This post may be subject to change depending on the development of the role.
Any changes will of course be subject to consultation.
Please note: We anticipate interviews will take place in person on the 13th and 14th of August.
We reserve the right to close this advert early should we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
