Job summary
Safeguarding Practitioner - MASH Health Team
Do you have a genuine passion for safeguarding children and supporting families? The MASH Health Team is offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician to further develop their safeguarding expertise in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
We are looking for a practitioner with a strong background in working with vulnerable children, their families, and/or adults with care and support needs. You'll bring excellent communication skills, professional curiosity, adaptability, resilience, and--importantly--a sense of humour to help you thrive in a pressured but highly rewarding setting.
Main duties of the job
As a key member of theMASH (Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub), you will:
- Represent health partners within the MASH. You'll analyse health records, liaise with professionals, and analyse information to produce high-quality health information shares. You will also contribute to strategy discussions and support effective multi-agency decision-making.
A significant part of your work will be collaborating closely with partners to safeguard children and young people. You will also take part in wider multi-agency meetings and strategy discussions to protect individuals experiencing safeguarding issues such as domestic abuse, exploitation, neglect and other safeguarding concerns.
Although this is not a patient-facing role, you will draw on your clinical expertise to analyse health records through a safeguarding lens and contribute to key decision-making. You will also provide guidance to non-clinical colleagues on the impact of health issues on children and their families.
- You may be asked to support audits and evaluations, contributing to continuous improvement across the service.
- You will part of a supportive and friendly Safeguarding team within Oxford Health.
- Unique opportunity to develop your safeguarding practice within a supportive environment
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties
About us
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As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who or where you are, you will receive:"Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"
Our values are:"Caring, safe and excellent"
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and guidance notes attached for further information on this role
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and guidance notes attached for further information on this role
Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Relevant practical experience of working with service users
- Experience of working with children and families
- Practical experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team
- Practical experience of presenting to groups
- Experience of mentoring, supervision, coaching colleagues
Desirable
- Practical experience of developing, implementing and evaluating training
- Practical experience of clinical audit
- Has an awareness of Mental health Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
Qualifications - Academic/Skills/Professional
Essential
- Professional health or social care registration (e.g. NMC/HCPC)
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development including Level 3 training in Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Adults
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification
- Teaching and assessing qualification
Further Training or Job Related Aptitude and Skills
Essential
- Ability to maintain accurate records within local and national policy
- Ability to challenge practice constructively and effectively
- Ability to influence and engage with professionals to achieve identified goals
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Work independently and have the confidence to make sound clinical judgements and decisions
- Ability to manage your own time and competing priorities, escalating issues as required
- Ability to work as part of a team in a collaborative manner to promote partnerships across organisational boundaries
- Ability to identify your own learning needs and negotiate how these are met
- Ability to demonstrate how you have been accountable for your practice and how this has developed your learning/ influenced your practice
- Willingness to work flexibly, basing yourself with teams in OHFT as required
- Awareness of self care strategies to maintain resilience
Contractual Requirements or other requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel between sites and work at different location as required.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Relevant practical experience of working with service users
- Experience of working with children and families
- Practical experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team
- Practical experience of presenting to groups
- Experience of mentoring, supervision, coaching colleagues
Desirable
- Practical experience of developing, implementing and evaluating training
- Practical experience of clinical audit
- Has an awareness of Mental health Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
Qualifications - Academic/Skills/Professional
Essential
- Professional health or social care registration (e.g. NMC/HCPC)
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development including Level 3 training in Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Adults
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification
- Teaching and assessing qualification
Further Training or Job Related Aptitude and Skills
Essential
- Ability to maintain accurate records within local and national policy
- Ability to challenge practice constructively and effectively
- Ability to influence and engage with professionals to achieve identified goals
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Work independently and have the confidence to make sound clinical judgements and decisions
- Ability to manage your own time and competing priorities, escalating issues as required
- Ability to work as part of a team in a collaborative manner to promote partnerships across organisational boundaries
- Ability to identify your own learning needs and negotiate how these are met
- Ability to demonstrate how you have been accountable for your practice and how this has developed your learning/ influenced your practice
- Willingness to work flexibly, basing yourself with teams in OHFT as required
- Awareness of self care strategies to maintain resilience
Contractual Requirements or other requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel between sites and work at different location as required.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
