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Safguarding Children Practitioner | Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,488 - £57,802 Per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 July 2024 |
| Location: | London, NW1 0PE |
| Company: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6362586/455-CANDI-974 |
Summary
The post holder will work collaboratively with the Partnership Safeguarding Team, Named Professionals, Named Doctors, Designated Professionals and Doctors and other agencies to ensure that the organisation meets its organisational statutory and regulatory safeguarding requirements and responsibilities to Safeguard children.
The post holder will provide expert advice, support, training and safeguarding supervision to health staff across the organisation and have a direct impact on the way the Trust delivers services to service users and carers, working to embed a robust culture of safeguarding, incorporating a ‘Think Family’ approach.
The post holder will contribute effectively to the multi-agency partnership working arrangements for safeguarding children and ensure that local area Safeguarding Children Partnership policies, regional and National guidelines and recommendations are shared with staff and managers so they can be embedded into practice.
The post holder will support the Named Professionals to undertake internal and external audits of child safeguarding enquiries with partners to ensure that the staff’s practices are in line with the safeguarding legislation and guidance.
To assist the Named Professionals in ensuring that Local Safeguarding Children Board, inter-agency child safeguarding procedures and internal health procedures are known, understood and followed by Trust staff. To provide leadership, supervision, expert advice and support on safeguarding matters to all health professionals. This includes:
· Providing a highly visible and accessible presence to all operational teams across NLMHP
· Support the AD for Safeguarding and work alongside the Named Professionals to review, plan, implement and evaluate the safeguarding service strategies.
· The planning, delivery and evaluation of safeguarding children training for staff across the Trust in conjunction with Local Safeguarding Children Boards and the Trust Learning and Development team.
· To provide guidance, advice and support to staff, working with adults at risk, in risk assessment and analysis of risk to enable focused plans and input to the family.
· To support the Trust in its responsibilities towards safeguarding children in line with legislation and current government policy. This includes participation in multi-agency learning and improvement frameworks through the provision of Individual Management reporting and participation in Serious Incident reporting.
· Data extraction and analysis for supporting the provision of reports to the Trust Corporate Governance team and Divisional meetings as required.
The partnership between Barnet,Enfieldand Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originallyestablishedin 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
In order tomeet the needs of the new Partnership services you may berequiredfrom time to time to work atdifferent locationsto your normal place of work. This may mean that youare required towork at any location that fall underBarnet,Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Main duties include (see JD &PS for further details):
· To work effectively within an adult and children’s safeguarding team to promote the Think Family model across the Trust.
· To support the implementation of local recommendations on practice arising from Local Safeguarding Children Practice Reviews (LSCPR)and other learning frameworks or raised through Clinical Governance and Serious Incident reporting. Also, by working collaboratively with service leads to addressing these issues.
· To build effective key relationships with the Designated and Named Health professionals across the health economy and to work in partnership with other agencies involved with protecting adults at risk.
· To work collaboratively with partner agencies, including the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH), in safeguarding children and others in the household, who may be at risk of, or experiencing neglect, abuse and/or exploitation. Also, to liaise effectively with partner agencies and staff where there are lower and medium risk domestic abuse concerns involving families.
· To adhere at all times to the principles of Information Sharing to safeguard children and adults.
· To support and participate in Trust audits, multi-agency audits and statutory inspections.
· To provide safeguarding supervision to health professionals involved in safeguarding children practice by a variety of means.
· To assist the Named Professionals in contributing to LSCPRs/case management reviews/significant case reviews/domestic homicide reviews, individual management reviews/individual agency reviews/internal management reviews, and undertake/supports staff with chronologies, and the development of action plans using a root cause analysis approach where appropriate or other locally approved methodologies.
· Contribute to implementation of action plans and the learning following the above reviews, across the Trust.
This advert closes on Monday 1 Jul 2024