Job summary
The post holder will work as part of the GP Care Group Safeguarding Team, supporting the Named Nurse to ensure that there is effective safeguarding service within GP Care Group in line with requirements set out in Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023), the London Safeguarding Children Procedures (2023) and the London Multi-Agency Safeguarding Policy & Procedures for Adults (2019). The post holder will provide safeguarding advice and support, safeguarding supervision and both single and inter-agency training. The post holder will work within the Tower Hamlets Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub [MASH] Team on a rotational basis to identify, collate and analyse health information from a range of NHS providers to support MASH risk assessments. The post holder will additionally represent Health services at strategy meetings or coordinate attendance by an appropriate health representative. The post holder will work with the Head of Safeguarding & Named Nurse for Safeguarding to support the development and implementation of relevant safeguarding related policies and procedures and develop and support the completion of safeguarding related audits. On occasion the advisor will be required to assist with completion of statutory reviews, within short time frames.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
Main duties of the job
- To provide safeguarding advice to staff that is evidence based and underpinned by current legislative and national guidance/multi-agency safeguarding pathways and processes.
- To work within the co-located integrated Tower Hamlets MASH team, analysing health information to support MASH risk assessments and representing health services at strategy meetings.
- To facilitate safeguarding training and supervision for staff.
- To support the development and implementation of safeguarding practice across GP Care Group
- To promote an awareness of the MASH process within GP Care Group and support staff to interface with it.
About us
Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.
Read up more about Tower Hamlets here: http://www.towerhamlets.is/
The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.
The key priorities for the Care Group are:
- Innovation and support for primary care
- Being a great place to work
- Integrating primary and community care
- Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
- Influencing improvements in health outcomes
Job description
Job responsibilities
Supporting and developing clinical practice
- To provide advice and support to staff in relation to concerns about children/adults safety and welfare.
- To develop effective communication links and partnership working with multi-disciplinary/multi-agency practitioners to enhance the direct care of children and adults with care & support needs.
- To ensure that all staff are familiar with the London Child Protection Procedures (2023) and What to do if you are worried a child is being abused (2015) and that this guidance is complied with once actual or potential safeguarding children concerns are identified.
- To ensure all relevant staff are familiar with London Multi-agency Safeguarding Adults Policy & Procedures (2019).
- Provide support to staff involved in the child protection process through preparing for and attending safeguarding related meetings e.g. Team Around the Child/Family Meetings, Strategy Meetings, Child In Need Meetings and Child protection Case Conferences.
- Attend relevant partnership meetings and ensure appropriate information sharing with relevant staff both within and outside of the organisation.
- Support staff in the preparation of written reports both in relation to formal child protection procedures and for legal proceedings.
- To work with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding to implement appropriate quality assurance systems including audit and monitoring of professional standards.
- To ensure record keeping is maintained in accordance with record keeping standards.
- Participate, under the direction of the Named Nurse, in case reviews and serious incident (SI) investigations.
- Collaborate with the Named Nurse to ensure that the recommendations from national / local case reviews, SIs and child death reviews are embedded in practice and monitored to ensure that changes are sustained.
- To cascade within supervision any safeguarding developments/recommendations.
- To cascade within training any safeguarding developments/recommendations.
- To maintain constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders and specifically health professionals from a wide range of services and disciplines.
- To identify and collate relevant health information to add to the multi-agency risk assessment.
- Develop and implement data collection systems and MASH protocols that will provide accurate and timely data safely and effectively with due regards to the UN convention for the rights of children, The Children Act 1989 and 2004 and the Human Rights Act, and also within the bounds of patient confidentiality and the Data Protection Act.
Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)
- To identify and collate relevant health information to inform multi-agency MASH risk assessments or strategy meetings. This may involve disclosing relevant information regarding parents or carers, ensuring that the information is processed fairly and proportionately.
- To support the development of wider information sharing across the Health Economy.
- Explain clearly, and with sound rationale, highly complex safeguarding children information to a wide range of professionals.
- Participate in the MASH multi-agency risk assessment to inform the case management, advising where necessary and challenging decisions when appropriate.
- Disseminate and communicate decisions and appropriate health information to relevant health professionals.
- Identify service gaps and issues relating to effective clinical pathways and /or cross boundary arrangements. Escalate evidence of ineffective safeguarding arrangements within or outside of the MASH.
- Record appropriate information about health outcomes on the appropriate MASH recording system on a case by case basis.
- Assist in the evaluation and analysis of the health contribution to the MASH process.
- Contribute to performance improvement of the MASH taking the health lead and for identified areas where agreed by the team.
Education, Training and Development
- Participate in the planning, implementation and evaluation of safeguarding training.
- Develop and update training materials in line with evidence-based practice and child protection & adult protection guidelines.
- To provide safeguarding supervision to staff with an all-age think family approach.
- Foster and promote a learning culture which is child-centred/person-centred and focuses on developing personal and professional effectiveness which values working with other professionals and partnership with parents.
- Ensure that the perspective of children is incorporated into all aspects of child protection practice.
- Ensure adherence to the six principles related to adults safeguarding where staff are working with adults with care & support needs.
Policy and Research
- Utilise research findings in practice to ensure that service users receive evidenced based care thus contributing to the clinical governance agenda.
- Use local and national data to inform and improve practice, for example, lessons from case reviews.
- Contribute to the setting and monitoring of standards in relation to safeguarding children and adults with care & support needs.
- Develop and participate in audits to monitor, evaluate and improve the quality and effectiveness of child-centred/person-centred practice.
- Assist in the development of policies and guidelines needed to support effective safeguarding of children & adults with care & support needs.
- To contribute to the review and development of existing health information management sharing systems.
- Develop and participate in audits to monitor, evaluate and improve the quality and effectiveness of health-related MASH practice.
- To support in the development of MASH policies and procedures relating to own health work.
This job description is not intended to be exhaustive and it is likely that duties may be altered from time to time in the light of changing circumstances and after consultation with the post holder.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Supporting and developing clinical practice
- To provide advice and support to staff in relation to concerns about children/adults safety and welfare.
- To develop effective communication links and partnership working with multi-disciplinary/multi-agency practitioners to enhance the direct care of children and adults with care & support needs.
- To ensure that all staff are familiar with the London Child Protection Procedures (2023) and What to do if you are worried a child is being abused (2015) and that this guidance is complied with once actual or potential safeguarding children concerns are identified.
- To ensure all relevant staff are familiar with London Multi-agency Safeguarding Adults Policy & Procedures (2019).
- Provide support to staff involved in the child protection process through preparing for and attending safeguarding related meetings e.g. Team Around the Child/Family Meetings, Strategy Meetings, Child In Need Meetings and Child protection Case Conferences.
- Attend relevant partnership meetings and ensure appropriate information sharing with relevant staff both within and outside of the organisation.
- Support staff in the preparation of written reports both in relation to formal child protection procedures and for legal proceedings.
- To work with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding to implement appropriate quality assurance systems including audit and monitoring of professional standards.
- To ensure record keeping is maintained in accordance with record keeping standards.
- Participate, under the direction of the Named Nurse, in case reviews and serious incident (SI) investigations.
- Collaborate with the Named Nurse to ensure that the recommendations from national / local case reviews, SIs and child death reviews are embedded in practice and monitored to ensure that changes are sustained.
- To cascade within supervision any safeguarding developments/recommendations.
- To cascade within training any safeguarding developments/recommendations.
- To maintain constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders and specifically health professionals from a wide range of services and disciplines.
- To identify and collate relevant health information to add to the multi-agency risk assessment.
- Develop and implement data collection systems and MASH protocols that will provide accurate and timely data safely and effectively with due regards to the UN convention for the rights of children, The Children Act 1989 and 2004 and the Human Rights Act, and also within the bounds of patient confidentiality and the Data Protection Act.
Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)
- To identify and collate relevant health information to inform multi-agency MASH risk assessments or strategy meetings. This may involve disclosing relevant information regarding parents or carers, ensuring that the information is processed fairly and proportionately.
- To support the development of wider information sharing across the Health Economy.
- Explain clearly, and with sound rationale, highly complex safeguarding children information to a wide range of professionals.
- Participate in the MASH multi-agency risk assessment to inform the case management, advising where necessary and challenging decisions when appropriate.
- Disseminate and communicate decisions and appropriate health information to relevant health professionals.
- Identify service gaps and issues relating to effective clinical pathways and /or cross boundary arrangements. Escalate evidence of ineffective safeguarding arrangements within or outside of the MASH.
- Record appropriate information about health outcomes on the appropriate MASH recording system on a case by case basis.
- Assist in the evaluation and analysis of the health contribution to the MASH process.
- Contribute to performance improvement of the MASH taking the health lead and for identified areas where agreed by the team.
Education, Training and Development
- Participate in the planning, implementation and evaluation of safeguarding training.
- Develop and update training materials in line with evidence-based practice and child protection & adult protection guidelines.
- To provide safeguarding supervision to staff with an all-age think family approach.
- Foster and promote a learning culture which is child-centred/person-centred and focuses on developing personal and professional effectiveness which values working with other professionals and partnership with parents.
- Ensure that the perspective of children is incorporated into all aspects of child protection practice.
- Ensure adherence to the six principles related to adults safeguarding where staff are working with adults with care & support needs.
Policy and Research
- Utilise research findings in practice to ensure that service users receive evidenced based care thus contributing to the clinical governance agenda.
- Use local and national data to inform and improve practice, for example, lessons from case reviews.
- Contribute to the setting and monitoring of standards in relation to safeguarding children and adults with care & support needs.
- Develop and participate in audits to monitor, evaluate and improve the quality and effectiveness of child-centred/person-centred practice.
- Assist in the development of policies and guidelines needed to support effective safeguarding of children & adults with care & support needs.
- To contribute to the review and development of existing health information management sharing systems.
- Develop and participate in audits to monitor, evaluate and improve the quality and effectiveness of health-related MASH practice.
- To support in the development of MASH policies and procedures relating to own health work.
This job description is not intended to be exhaustive and it is likely that duties may be altered from time to time in the light of changing circumstances and after consultation with the post holder.
Person Specification
Abilities
Essential
- Experience of facilitating Safeguarding Supervision.
Experience
Essential
- Experience in Child Protection/Adult Protection.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse/SCPHN/or equivalent.
Other requirements
Essential
- Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills & computer literacy skills.
Knowledge
Essential
- ENB 998 Teaching in Clinical Practice or equivalent.
Person Specification
Abilities
Essential
- Experience of facilitating Safeguarding Supervision.
Experience
Essential
- Experience in Child Protection/Adult Protection.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse/SCPHN/or equivalent.
Other requirements
Essential
- Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills & computer literacy skills.
Knowledge
Essential
- ENB 998 Teaching in Clinical Practice or equivalent.
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.
