Social Care and Safeguarding Coordinator

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 07 March 2025

Job summary

This exciting post provides an opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary team of qualified and unqualified staff. You will assist the Safeguarding and Social Work team in collating and compiling safeguarding information and facilitate safe and timely discharge of patients from the hospital. You will have excellent proficiency in Microsoft programmes such as Word, excel, and PowerPoint to support the Safeguarding and Social Work team when preparing reports and documentation.

This role is part-time (30hours per week)

Main duties of the job

The Safeguarding and Social Care Coordinator:

*Supports the safeguarding team to collate, organise, and maintain safeguarding-related information and data, ensuring accuracy and confidentiality when preparing reports and other documentation.

*Assist the team by undertaking tasks to facilitate the safe and timely management of information and referrals internally and requesting packages of care from external providers accordingly.

*Will be required to keep detailed records of the processes and timescales.

*Will be expected to be able to interact with a patients, relatives, and colleagues in a professional manner, communicating confidential information in written, verbal and electronic formats where necessary.

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour

Date posted

21 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,071 to £25,674 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

175-2425-2-PS1058

Job locations

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

Job description

Job responsibilities

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Numeracy and literacy to national Level 2/ GCSE standard.
Competent in Microsoft word, excel and PowerPoint.

Desirable

ECDL qualified or equivalent.

Experience

Essential

Evidence of experience in assessing support needs for discharge.

Desirable

Experience of working within an acute hospital setting.
Knowledge of discharge needs of patients with Cardiac and Respiratory conditions.

Additional Criteria

Essential

Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Numeracy and literacy to national Level 2/ GCSE standard.
Competent in Microsoft word, excel and PowerPoint.

Desirable

ECDL qualified or equivalent.

Experience

Essential

Evidence of experience in assessing support needs for discharge.

Desirable

Experience of working within an acute hospital setting.
Knowledge of discharge needs of patients with Cardiac and Respiratory conditions.

Additional Criteria

Essential

Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration

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.