Children's Safeguarding Care Coordinator
| Posting date: | 30 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £22,950.00 to £25,700.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £22950.00 - £25700.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 October 2025 |
| Location: | Ilkeston, DE7 5PR |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A2515-25-0012 |
Summary
Job Summary To provide children's safeguarding support across the practices, working closely with clinicians, practice support staff and external agencies. This is a varied and demanding role requiring the job holder to possess first class interpersonal and organisational skills. You will be dealing with highly sensitive and confidential information on a day-to-day basis and will demonstrate the highest level of integrity. The aim of this post is to improve coordination of care for vulnerable families in Erewash, reduce administrative burden on practices and GPs, strengthen connections between practices and improve regulatory compliance. Please note this role is not a clinical role. General duties At all times the post holder is to behave in a professional way that encourages quality care, the development of a team spirit and fosters continual improvement across the PCN. This job description is not intended to be exhaustive. The post-holder will be expected to carry out any other duties that may reasonably be required or directed in line with the main duties and level of the role to meet the changing needs of EHP and EPCN. Key Job Responsibilities Gather information to inform the assessment of risk when a concern is raised by a member of staff or advised to the practice by a partner agency. Share children's safeguarding relevant information with other agencies in an agreed format and timely manner. With the approval of the Lead GP, and oversight by the responsible GP: a) Partake in child case conferences. b) Attend Strategy meetings c) Provide Child protection Conference reports Work alongside the practice manager and GP leads to: a) Coordinate and quality assure regular practice children's safeguarding meetings (Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDTs). b) Maintain and utilise children's safeguarding risk registers. c) Support the audit of practice children's safeguarding activities. d) Search clinical systems to identify children not brought to appointments. e) To improve data quality of recording of safeguarding concerns in the patient record f) Implement and assure practice policies and procedures that safeguard patients. g) Embed local and national safeguarding recommendations. h) Demonstrate a-g above to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) when required. Form an important link between the practice and the Derbyshire Children's Safeguarding Board, to: a) Ensure effective collaboration with statutory safeguarding reviews. b) Partake in local safeguarding projects and pilots. c) Provide feedback to Derby & Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (DDICB) teams on how best to support practices. 6. Report to EHP Senior Leadership Team and working with the Safeguarding Lead to: a) Support the audit of EHP children's safeguarding activities. b) Implement and assure EHP policies and procedures that safeguard patients. c) Demonstrate a-b above to CQC when required. Miscellaneous Demonstrate a flexible attitude and be prepared to carry out other duties as may be reasonably required from time to time within the general character of the post or the level of responsibility of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner. Work in accordance with the EHP, PCN practices policies and procedures. Contribute to the wider aims and objectives of the PCN to improve and support primary care. Key internal relationships GP Safeguarding Leads Practice Managers Clinicians working within Erewash Administrative teams working within Erewash Key external relationships Derbyshire Childrens Safeguarding Board Derby and Derbyshire Children's Safeguarding Partnership Derbyshire Social Services Other key external agencies e.g., Police General Responsibilities for All Staff Confidentiality While seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately. In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential. Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practices/EHP/PCN, may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.