Pathway Co-ordinator Rainbow Centre - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Rainbow Centre is a part of Alder Hey's safeguarding service providing an assessment facility for children and young people where there is suspected physical abuse, neglect or child sexual abuse.

We are a stand alone safeguarding hub within the hospital. A team of specialist doctors, nurses and psychologist along with support staff are based in the department.

The Rainbow Centre provides child protection medicals, where there is a suspicion of neglect, physical or sexual abuse for children and young people across Merseyside.

Safeguarding and child protection multi agency meetings are conducted within Rainbow Centre; as well as strategy meetings held following unexpected child deaths.

The specialist safeguarding nurses co-ordinate the identification and ongoing support and referrals for any children or young people identified as vulnerable who have attended Alder Hey.

They provide safeguarding oversight and supervision for staff across the trust, including community staff based in Sefton.

The department can at times, be a high pressured environment with numerous deadlines and targets.

We report to internal and external governance committees on our activity; as well as the rapid multi agency 'wraparound' procedures, when a child or young person is at significant risk of harm.

The purpose of this post is to provide a comprehensive administrative service within the Rainbow Centre at Alder Hey NHS Foundation Trust.

The post holder's main duties will include planning, organising, directing and coordinating the work of the department.

The post holder will be responsible for the typing of safeguarding reports for children and young people following attendance for child protection medicals.

They will also be required to develop and maintain data spreadsheets in regards to the activity delivered by the service and produce analytical reports in respect of this data in accordance with service KPI's.

The post holder will be expected to work with the minimum of supervision.

He/she will be able to demonstrate flexibility and use own initiative to carry out duties in such a way as to make a direct and positive contribution to the organisation and families who are required to attend the Rainbow Centre.

The post holder will provide a confident professional service to all children and their parents, whilst supporting them throughout their pathway of care.

It is vital that confidentiality be maintained at all times.

The post holder will also need to be confident in speaking with multi agency professionals during child protection investigations.

The post holder must adhere to Trust Policies and Procedures at all times.

As one of Europe's biggest and busiest children's hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions.

In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man.

We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.

Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children's medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world's leaders in children's healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children's specialists.

Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.

We know that a children's hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual.

As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow.

At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS:

Communicate professionally and effectively with patients/parents/carers, the general public and all internal and external agencies both verbally and non-verbally in a timely manner.

Ensure diplomacy, empathy and confidentiality when dealing with distressed children/young people/parents/carers.

Liaise with clinical and non-clinical staff to resolve any issues that may arise, to the mutual benefit of all concerned.

Meet and greet external visitors to the department in a professional and polite manner.

Attend and contribute to departmental meetings, team briefs etc.

Undertake minute taking responsibilities at multiagency professional meetings

ANALYSIS AND JUDGEMENT SKILLS:

Typing of minutes of meetings and general departmental correspondence when required and within locally agreed timescales.

Typing of reports, court reports, statements relating to the ch