Safeguarding Lead
| Posting date: | 09 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £52,809.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £52809.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 July 2025 |
| Location: | Middlesbrough, TS3 6AL |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | B0258-25-0040 |
Summary
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Ensure safeguarding is embedded in all staff and volunteer recruitment processes. Be available to all staff for advice / support around safeguarding children and adults at risk issues. Ensure all deepend practice staff have attended mandatory and pertinent safeguarding children and adults training. Provide advice and guidance to all practice staff around safeguarding issues and assess and support staff to make referrals to the local safeguarding team. Support to send high quality written reports to key meetings pertaining to a family where there are concerns around a child, i.e. child protection case conferences, strategic planning meetings and pre-birth planning meetings. To act as a single point of contact for local safeguarding professionals, including having oversight and coordination responsibilities for any meeting invitations and attendance on behalf of deepend practices. On behalf of deepend practices attend local safeguarding meetings including MARAC, MAPPA strategy meetings, child protection conferences, at risk adult meetings, rapid review meetings and other relevant meetings. and similar forums as required and coordination information sharing and actions arising from these. To maintain regular contact with local safeguarding services to ensure effective communication and working practice. To provide monthly safeguarding supervision for all deepend practice staff members and provide ad-hoc guidance on safeguarding cases as they arise. To facilitate MDT safeguarding meeting liaising with the wider health team including, maternity services and 0 19 teams Attend such meetings alongside colleagues, where there is any significant difference of opinion around preferred course of action or assessment of risk. Raise a professional challenge with outside agencies such as the local authority if the situation were to arise Investigate all safeguarding issues which involve the death or serious injury of a child, where criminal charges have been brought against a client or where there are safeguarding children or adult at risk concerns around a member of staff, volunteer or recovery mentor/broker, Report any allegations against staff to the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO). Undertake audit and regular quality control exercises, gathering information relating to trends and patterns, and relay to deepend practices. Raise the profile of the safeguarding agenda within deepend practices ensuring safeguarding issues and case presentations are standing agenda items in all team meetings. Alongside the individual practices safeguarding lead cascade learning and practice guidance from national and local forums to all practice staff. Liaise with individual practices safeguarding lead to ensure risk and/or parenting capacity assessments are conducted where clients are pregnant, have the care of children or have substantial contact with children. Ensure Mental Capacity principles are adhered to when working with adults at risk. Develop a safeguarding flagging system with all practices, utilise SystmOne / EMIS and ensure parity of information across systems. Co-ordinate complex case review process across the deepend practices and represent the deepend practices at complex case meetings. Conduct random file audits periodically to assess safeguarding children and adults at risk practice and record-keeping, action plan to address any gaps, and make recommendations to team where relevant. Quality: The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will: Alert other team members to issues of quality and ris Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients' needs Effectively manage own time, workload and resources Communication: The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to: Communicate effectively with other team members Communicate effectively with patients and carers Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly Personal and Professional Development Take responsibility for own development, learning and performance. Participate in an annual individual performance review and take responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and professional development. Knowledge, Skills and Experience For further information regarding knowledge, skills and experience required for this role please refer to the Person Specification. Collaborative Working The deepend practices are focused on building relationships with other local health and social care providers for the benefit of effective Primary Care service delivery to our patient population. Recognise the roles of other colleagues within the practices and in other organisations and their role to patient care. Demonstrate use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. ICBs). Demonstrate ability to work as a member of a team. Recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary. Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice, PCNs and locality. Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality. Explore the potential for collaborative working and take opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships. Demonstrate ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital teams. Liaise with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients. Personal Management: Recognise and work within own competence. Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality. Education, Training and Development Participate in relevant training programmes. Maintain a statutory and mandatory training record. Health and Safety The post-holder must comply at all times with the Practice at which they are working in Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisations Incident Reporting System. The post-holder will comply with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Access to Health Records Act Confidentiality Information relating to patients, practice business, PCN business, GP Partners and practice staff is strictly confidential. It is a condition of this employment that you will not use or disclose any confidential information obtained in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 Equality and Diversity The post-holder must co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment. Co-workers, patients and service users must be treated equally irrespective of gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc. Job Description Agreement This job description is intended to provide an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities only. There may be other duties required of the post-holder commensurate with the position. This job description will be open to regular review and may be amended to take into account development within the deepend practices and its priorities. This job description is intended as a basic guide to the scope and responsibilities of the post and is not exhaustive. It will be subject to regular review and amendment as necessary in consultation with the post holder. PLEASE NOTE: This post is subject to a DBS check at an enhanced level. Amendments: This post may be subject to change depending on the development of the role. Any changes will of course be subject to consultation. Please note: We anticipate interviews will take place in person on the 13th and 14th of August. We reserve the right to close this advert early should we receive a high volume of suitable applications.