Children's Safeguarding Advisor - London, United Kingdom - Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, Safeguarding Team has vacancies for Safeguarding Advisors working within Community Health Services in Lewisham, University Hospital Lewisham and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich.

You will work within the Safeguarding Team which covers acute and community health services.

You will be involved in providing support, supervision and training to staff and will engage in multi-agency working via attendance at MARAC and MASH as required.

Applicants need to have a sound understanding of safeguarding and experience of working with child protection and vulnerable families. They should have a minimum of 3 years post qualification experience within their specialist practice area of work.

In return you will work with a team that aims to deliver a first class service and aspires to continuously improve

This is a very exciting and unique opportunity to develop and extend your skills and knowledge in the safeguarding children field.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley.

With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham.

We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

As an organisation, we've made significant improvements for patients and staff in the last two and-a-half years.

This is reflected in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection (from February 2020), which found improvements across the organisation and gave us an improved rating of "Good" in the Well-Led and Effective domains, in addition to the rating of "Good" that we had already achieved in the Caring domain.

Our staff culture change programme has been key to the Trust's improvement journey, as we've stabilised our workforce by reducing vacancy rates and improving staff retention.

We've also significantly increased the representation of minority ethnic leaders across our clinical and corporate teams.

The Safeguarding Advisor is an experienced specialist practitioner with in-depth knowledge of child protection and advanced analytical skills for safeguarding children acquired through specialist courses and experiential learning from interagency work.

To advise and support staff in complex cases and to work closely with the Trust Named Safeguarding Children Professionals to ensure that appropriate assessment of risks are undertaken in order to improve outcomes for vulnerable/child protection children/families.

The post holder will work as part of a dynamic multi-agency team assessing notifications and referrals regarding children aged 0-18 that are received by Multi

Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH). The MASH process includes searching for and collating health information from a range of NHS providers.

The post hold will work across acute and community sites as well as within the Local Authority as part of the MASH.

The post holder will work with the Safeguarding team to deliver safeguarding training in line with Intercollegiate Guidance (2014)

The post holder will work with the Safeguarding team to deliver safeguarding supervision in one to one, group and reflective learning forums.

The post holder will work as part of a dynamic multi-agency integrated team assessing notifications and referrals regarding children aged 0-18 that are received by acute hospital services.

The post holder will have line management responsibility for safeguarding administrator

The Named Nurse for Safeguarding will undertake monthly clinical supervision with the post holder.