Safeguarding Children Practitioner (MASH)

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	30 Ebrill 2026
Cyflog:	£39,959.00 i £48,117.00 bob blwyddyn
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£39959.00 - £48117.00 a year
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	08 Mai 2026
Lleoliad:	Warrington, WA2 9HY
Cwmni:	NHS Jobs
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	C9835-COR26-015

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Welcome to North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust. Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have now integrated to become North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust. Job Purpose The Safeguarding Children Practitioner MultiAgency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) is responsible for providing skilled, timely and proportionate health safeguarding input into multiagency decisionmaking to safeguard children, young people and families. The post holder will assess, analyse and share relevant health information to inform risk management, threshold decisions and protective interventions, ensuring that safeguarding concerns are identified early and responded to effectively. Working collaboratively within the MASH and wider safeguarding partnerships, the practitioner will apply a strong understanding of safeguarding legislation, national and local guidance, and patterns of abuse and neglect. The role requires professional judgement, the ability to manage complex and sensitive situations, and confidence to provide appropriate challenge and escalation where risk is identified. The post holder will contribute to highquality multiagency working, maintain professional accountability, and support continuous improvement in safeguarding practice in line with Trust values and statutory responsibilities. To work closely with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children to ensure appropriate quality assurance mechanisms in all areas of safeguarding practice are in place. Be integral in developing effective communication strategies within the Trust. Duties and Responsibilities Demonstrates a high level of professional accountability and integrity in safeguarding children practice, underpinned by a sound knowledge of relevant legislation, national and local safeguarding policies, procedures, and evidencebased guidance. Works autonomously and confidently within a MultiAgency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) environment, contributing to timely, proportionate information sharing, professional challenge, and robust decisionmaking to support effective risk assessment and management. Works in conjunction with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children and the wider safeguarding team to support the review, development, and updating of safeguardingrelated policies, procedures, and practice guidance in line with statutory requirements and local arrangements. Actively contributes to quality assurance, audit, and monitoring processes, using findings to inform service improvement, learning, and safer practice. Maintains uptodate professional knowledge and skills through ongoing professional development, reflective practice, and effective use of clinical and safeguarding supervision. Communicates effectively with professionals across organisational boundaries, demonstrating confidence to provide constructive challenge, advice, and support where appropriate. Upholds the highest standards of confidentiality, information governance, equality, and diversity, ensuring practice remains childfocused, nonjudgemental, and aligned with Trust values and statutory safeguarding responsibilities. Professional Demonstrates strong professional knowledge of safeguarding legislation, national and local policies, procedures, and guidance, applying this effectively in practice. Maintains a high level of professional accountability, integrity, and credibility when working with children and families with complex safeguarding needs. Works confidently and autonomously within a fastpaced and constantly changing environment, including the MultiAgency Safeguarding Hub (MASH). Engages in effective professional communication, providing clear, wellreasoned information sharing and appropriate challenge within multiagency settings. Responds appropriately and sensitively to complex, distressing, and emotionally demanding safeguarding situations. Demonstrates insight into patterns of abuse and neglect and applies this knowledge to safeguarding decisionmaking. Commits to continuous professional development, reflective practice, and full engagement in clinical and safeguarding supervision. Adheres to professional standards, mandatory training requirements, information governance, confidentiality, and personal health and safety responsibilities. Works collaboratively as part of a skilled safeguarding children and adults team, maintaining professional relationships across organisational boundaries. Demonstrates the ability to support, develop, and professionally influence other practitioners through effective communication and expertise. Management Contributes to the effective delivery of safeguarding services within the MultiAgency Safeguarding Hub (MASH), working within agreed policies, procedures, and local safeguarding arrangements. Supports the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children and the safeguarding team in the development, review, and implementation of safeguarding policies, procedures, and practice guidance. Participates in quality assurance, audit, and monitoring activity, contributing to the identification of risks, themes, learning, and opportunities for service improvement. Uses audit findings, supervision, reflective practice, and learning from safeguarding activity to support continuous improvement in safeguarding practice. Provides professional support, guidance, and informal supervision to other practitioners where appropriate, contributing to workforce development and safeguarding capability. Demonstrates responsibility for managing own workload effectively, prioritising competing demands, and meeting required timescales within a fastpaced MASH environment. Works collaboratively with multiagency partners, demonstrating professional leadership through effective communication, information sharing, and appropriate challenge. Maintains responsibility for personal compliance mandatory training, professional development requirements, and safeguarding supervision. Contributes to maintaining safe systems of work, information governance standards, and adherence to health and safety responsibilities. Models Trust values and professional behaviours, promoting a culture of accountability, respect, learning, and highquality safeguarding practice. Clinical Apply professional safeguarding judgement within the MultiAgency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) to assess, analyse, and contribute health information to multiagency decisionmaking in line with local thresholds and statutory guidance. Ensure safeguarding children procedures are followed within a MASH context, including timely screening, information sharing, escalation, and appropriate onward referral. Identify, challenge, and escalate concerns regarding poor, unsafe, or inappropriate safeguarding practice identified through MASH activity, information sharing, or partner decisionmaking, in line with escalation and professional dispute resolution processes. Collect, collate, and interpret relevant health and safeguarding information to support highquality MASH discussions, risk analysis, and outcomes for children and families. Contribute to minimising organisational and professional risk in relation to legal and statutory safeguarding processes by supporting the preparation, quality, and timeliness of health information and reports used within child protection and care proceedings. Provide specialist safeguarding advice and clinical input within MASH meetings, supporting proportionate decisionmaking and defensible outcomes for children at risk of harm. Support and advise practitioners involved in safeguarding processes by contributing to strategy discussions, child protection meetings, and other multiagency meetings linked to MASH activity. Provide clinical safeguarding guidance to practitioners involved in safeguarding children cases, supporting safe practice, appropriate escalation, and effective multiagency working. Contribute to the delivery of effective safeguarding supervision arrangements by providing casebased advice, reflective discussion, and specialist input in accordance with Trust safeguarding supervision frameworks. Actively engage in peer safeguarding supervision to reflect on complex, emotive, and distressing safeguarding cases and maintain professional resilience within the MASH role. Work in accordance with Safeguarding Children Partnership arrangements and Trust safeguarding policies, procedures, and informationsharing agreements relevant to MASH. Act as a health safeguarding contact point within MASH for referrals and information from internal and external partner agencies, ensuring timely dissemination to appropriate services. Support Trust staff and partner professionals to recognise indicators of abuse and neglect, including risk of significant harm, and advise on appropriate referral pathways through MASH. . Work effectively as part of a multiagency MASH team, demonstrating collaborative practice, professional curiosity, respectful challenge, and shared responsibility for safeguarding outcomes for children. Non Clinical Collect, collate, and provide safeguarding related data and activity information to support reporting, audit, and performance monitoring. Support the Safeguarding team to collate and accurate record safeguarding data that is required for reporting. Ensure that supervision is accessed for support safeguarding, restorative and clinical supervision. Please find full Job Description and Person Specification Attached