Job summary
There
has never been a more exciting time to work in Swindons Children, Families and
Community Health service. Weve already taken huge strides forward with our
journey for an integrated approach to childrens health, education support and
social care and now were ready to move on to the next stage in our
development.
As
we move forward its vital that everything we do and every service we provide
is delivered in a robust way and is in line with national standards and
protocols. Thats where you come in!
Main duties of the job
This
post has responsibility for the quality assurance (part of the role) of
the safeguarding aspects of community health activities within the Children,
Families and Community Health service. You will provide oversight and scrutiny
of the delivery of high quality community health safeguarding services to
vulnerable children and ensure they are in line and comply with national
legislation, policies and guidance. In addition you will have a key role in
promoting and sharing good professional practice, providing advice and
expertise to our wide range of health professional practitioners and ensuring
excellent safeguarding training is in place and being accessed by staff.
The
post-holder will report directly to the Principal for Health and Wellbeing who is the CQC registered manager
for our regulated health activities across childrens community.
We
are inviting applications from suitably qualified and experienced candidates
from a relevant, registered health professional background. If you are
passionate about safeguarding and improving outcomes for Children & Young
People and have the relevant SCPHN qualification, then we would love to hear
from you.
This
is an important and autonomous role for an experienced and motivated
professional. If you have the background and experience to deliver in this
exciting and challenging role, we want to hear from you.
About us
Please
see our Rewards and Benefits offer for more
details.
As
an employee, you will receive a diverse and exciting environment in which to
work, encouraging creativity and innovation whilst recognising the need to
support ongoing personal development and a flexible work life balance.
For Swindon to thrive in the future, we need to lay the
foundations now. Its why our regeneration and transformation programmes are
already underway. So, youll be joining us at an exciting time on our journey.
Well look to you to share your knowledge, influence decisions and drive real,
positive change. With your contributions, well achieve our vision of a
prosperous, re-vitalised Swindon together. And youll be proud to say it was
made better with you.
Please see
our Vision and Values page for
more details.
Please see
our new Swindon Plan.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
To work as part of the safeguarding team MASH,
to be a source of advice and expertise on all safeguarding children matters to
all childrens community health staff.
To demonstrate a high level of expertise in
relation to the safeguarding of children and promote the wellbeing of children
and respond in line with Working Together (2018) in order to put the child at
the centre of safeguarding.
To work to support practitioners to deliver a
service which improves outcomes for vulnerable children and families, including
those involved in domestic abuse and court procedures as required.
To promote the use of timely, robust and
consistent risk assessment of information gathered and shared across the
agencies involved which will enable the proportionate, necessary and lawful
disclosure of information at the earliest opportunity.
To contribute to safeguarding decision making.
Key Accountabilities
Develop and maintain relationships with a broad
range of internal and external stakeholders.
Specifically health professionals from a wide range of services and
disciplines
Role model, promoting good practice and
effective communication between all agencies, sharing proportionate information
in accordance with GDPR (2018)
To provide professional challenge as necessary
to ensure the child is kept the focus of any safeguarding work and to support
the use of the escalation process as required
Working with the safeguarding team to ensure
that new national and local guidance, policies and procedures are disseminated
Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub
To organise and collate the information
gathering exercise linked to referrals to ensure a full and rich source of
information to inform the decision making process
To provide a summary and recommendation for the
next course of action within the joint decision making forum using the agreed
processes and procedures
To disseminate the MASH outcomes for specific
children to all relevant health practitioners
including the referrer
Work collaboratively with the workforce leads in
health services to ensure that early intervention and prevention are
prioritised rather than a focus on referral escalation
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
To work as part of the safeguarding team MASH,
to be a source of advice and expertise on all safeguarding children matters to
all childrens community health staff.
To demonstrate a high level of expertise in
relation to the safeguarding of children and promote the wellbeing of children
and respond in line with Working Together (2018) in order to put the child at
the centre of safeguarding.
To work to support practitioners to deliver a
service which improves outcomes for vulnerable children and families, including
those involved in domestic abuse and court procedures as required.
To promote the use of timely, robust and
consistent risk assessment of information gathered and shared across the
agencies involved which will enable the proportionate, necessary and lawful
disclosure of information at the earliest opportunity.
To contribute to safeguarding decision making.
Key Accountabilities
Develop and maintain relationships with a broad
range of internal and external stakeholders.
Specifically health professionals from a wide range of services and
disciplines
Role model, promoting good practice and
effective communication between all agencies, sharing proportionate information
in accordance with GDPR (2018)
To provide professional challenge as necessary
to ensure the child is kept the focus of any safeguarding work and to support
the use of the escalation process as required
Working with the safeguarding team to ensure
that new national and local guidance, policies and procedures are disseminated
Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub
To organise and collate the information
gathering exercise linked to referrals to ensure a full and rich source of
information to inform the decision making process
To provide a summary and recommendation for the
next course of action within the joint decision making forum using the agreed
processes and procedures
To disseminate the MASH outcomes for specific
children to all relevant health practitioners
including the referrer
Work collaboratively with the workforce leads in
health services to ensure that early intervention and prevention are
prioritised rather than a focus on referral escalation
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant safeguarding knowledge and experience
- Experience of supporting other practitioners with safeguarding decisions
- Experience of frontline working in services for children, young people and families
- Knowledge and understanding of the impact of Domestic abuse, CSE , FGM and other priority areas
- Risk assessment skills and experience
- Excellent Communication skills
- Collaborative working experience
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Health Professional
- Qualified Specialist Community Health Practitioner
- 2 years post qualifying experience in relevant field
- Evidence of post graduate learning and development in the area of Safeguarding
- IT skills
- Enhanced DBS check
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant safeguarding knowledge and experience
- Experience of supporting other practitioners with safeguarding decisions
- Experience of frontline working in services for children, young people and families
- Knowledge and understanding of the impact of Domestic abuse, CSE , FGM and other priority areas
- Risk assessment skills and experience
- Excellent Communication skills
- Collaborative working experience
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Health Professional
- Qualified Specialist Community Health Practitioner
- 2 years post qualifying experience in relevant field
- Evidence of post graduate learning and development in the area of Safeguarding
- IT skills
- Enhanced DBS check
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.
