Vwt Safeguarding Co-ordinator, Band 3 - Gloucester, United Kingdom - Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Gloucester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Permanent, 20 hours a week

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, self-motivated and organised person to provide efficient, confidential and professional administrative support to Safeguarding Vulnerable Womens Team (Unborn).

This interesting and rewarding role will include administration and support of a variety of work programs in relation to Safeguarding Children.

You will need strong IT skills, excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills to liaise between professional teams responsible for Safeguarding Children both within and external to the Trust to enable us to provide a high quality service.

You will need to be adaptable and resilient with the ability to prioritise effectively.

You will need to be able to work on your own initiative in a logical and methodical way but be able to multi-task whilst dealing with interruptions.

You will monitor the department's inbox and incoming phone call and manage the database to which provides management with an overview of safeguarding activity.

You will need to be able to demonstrate

Good written and verbal communication skills with a good command of English, punctuation and grammar
Experience in Microsoft Office packages
IT capable to ensure proficient use of hospital computer systems
An excellent, professional telephone manner
Proven organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workload and to work to deadlines
Ability to work quickly and accurately
Ability to use own judgement and initiative as appropriate

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest employer in the county and with over 8,000 staff, we are one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK.

We offer a generous annual leave allowance, excellent bank rates, access to the excellent NHS Pension Scheme, discounts for local shops, restaurants and services, access to our health and well-being hub, access to our two on-site nurseries, flexible working options, discounted public transport, reward and recognition schemes, exercise and activity classes and membership to our popular hospital choir.

We are a very busy, hardworking but friendly team who need an energetic but exceptionally organised person to join our department.

If you like to be kept busy, enjoy variety and have good attention to detail whilst under pressure, then you could be the person we are looking for to enable us to deliver an excellent service.

In return, we can offer you a job where you are valued in supporting our team and making a difference to patients.

The post-holder will primarily provide efficient, confidential and professional administrative support to Named Nurse and Safeguarding Professionals responsible for Vulnerable Women's Team.

This will include administration and support of a variety of work programs in relation to children's and vulnerable women's safeguarding services.

Good communication skills between professional teams who are responsible for safeguarding both internally and externally to the Trust is essential to provide high quality services.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Educated to GCSE grade C/4 or above (or equivalent) in literacy and numeracy
NVQ level 3 in administration or equivalent experience Minimum 1 years experience in a hospital or office environment
IT experience of Microsoft Office packages
IT capable to ensure proficient use of hospital computer systems
Proven organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workload and to work to deadlines
Good written and verbal communication skills with a good command and understanding of English, punctuation and grammar
Good interpersonal skills for dealing with people internal and external to the organisation
Ability to work quickly and accurately
Ability to use own judgement and initiative as appropriate

KEY RESULT AREAS

Act as a single point of entry for:
Clinical patient specific data relating to our patients
Supporting Vulnerable Women protection activity

- to include

Enter safeguarding alert information on hospital systems for women.
Collation of all safeguarding alerts and referrals submitted to and from social care that relate to the unborn and children (018years) attending the Trust, to ensure the information is entered on to a secure database, actioned and the response and outcome tracked.
Pulling and filing information in notes.
Support the further development of processes and databases to provide managerial oversight of safeguarding processes as guided by clinical staff.
Responsibility for data entry and managing the Safeguarding inbox for the Division.
Assist with the collation of data for trend monitoring of safeguarding activity. e.g alerts received via Datixweb.
Liaise with external agencies on safeguarding matters and coordinate and track requests by the MASH and through GSCB Allegations management.
Follow defined protocols and policy to take actions in response to alerts received escalating to the appropriate