Safeguarding Administrator

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Safeguarding Administrator who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, dynamic, highly motivated, hardworking individual to join our friendly and dedicated safeguarding team.

The job role is varied and requires individuals who can adapt well, manage all duties effectively and be able to work in a fast-paced environment. The post holder must have a keen attention to detail in handling sensitive & highly confidential information.

General duties include comprehensive administration to the internal safeguarding team.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

The Post holder will provide an efficient, flexible and confidential administrative service to the safeguarding team; this includes predominantly administrative support for the maternity safeguarding team.

To provide a comprehensive administrative service to the safeguarding team ensuring telephone calls, correspondence and direct contact with clients and other internal/external agencies are dealt with in an appropriate and professional manner, using judgement and discretion where necessary.

Ensure all urgent and/or confidential communications are received and distributed from/to relevant parties in a relevant manner.

To provide the first point of reference for the midwifery service to the safeguarding team.

To be responsible for the management of shared email inboxes, dissemination of child protection meetings and minuting of the maternity safeguarding meeting.

To support with dissemination of information to GP & Community Services and partner agencies.

The post holder may be dealing with distressing or emotional circumstances and will therefore use their initiative, diplomacy and tact and take a proactive approach to solving problems and escalating issues as appropriate.

Take the initiative to contact and consult with the safeguarding team as appropriate when they are not in the office as this a post that requires unsupervised working and exercise of judgement in seeking assistance.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

o The Lister Hospital, Stevenage

o New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City

o Hertford County, Hertford

o Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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