Child Safeguarding Advisor

Child Safeguarding Advisor

Location: Cross site between Lewisham and Woolwich, South East London

Proposed start date: ASAP

Duration: This is a temporary role for 6 months and likely to be longer

Sector: Healthcare

Working environment: Hospital

Pay Rates:

£23.00-£26.00 paye per hour
£26.00-£29.00 paye inclusive of holiday pay per hour
£29.00-£33.00 umbrella per hour

All of the rates are depending on skill and experience.

Band: 7

Working Days and Hours: 37.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday (on site each day), 9am to 5pm

Job Summary:

The Safeguarding Advisor needs to be 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.

Responsibilities:

1. Work as part of a Team member in the daily screening emergency department attendances, collaborating with internal / external professionals and attending the weekly multi-disciplinary meeting associated with emergency department attendances.
2. Advise and support staff in complex cases and work closely with the Trust Named Safeguarding Children Professionals to ensure appropriate assessment of risks are undertaken to improve outcomes for vulnerable/child protection children/families.
3. Work as part of a dynamic multi-agency team assessing notifications and referrals regarding children aged 0-18 received by Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH).
4. Work across acute and community sites as well as with other multiagency professionals to safeguard children.
5. Deliver safeguarding training in line with Intercollegiate Guidance.
6. Provide safeguarding supervision in one-to-one, group, and reflective learning forums.
7. Have supervision or line management responsibility for a Safeguarding Coordinator.
8. Highlight challenges and document poor practice.
9. Provide advice and support on all matters relating to Child Protection and vulnerable families while implementing evidence-based practice.
10. Disseminate information to promote good practice.
11. Engage fully in the delivery of safeguarding training.
12. Ensure robust safeguarding supervision is implemented within Trust Services in accordance with the Trust safeguarding supervision policy.
13. Provide safeguarding supervision, consultation, professional advice, and guidance to staff, supporting them with issues related to vulnerable families and child protection.
14. Ensure that the child protection supervision contract is discussed and signed by the supervisor and practitioner.
15. Facilitate regular experiential learning forums to share good practice and learn lessons from research around vulnerable families and child protection issues.
16. Work in partnership with Trust Team managers to address clinical governance and performance management issues.
17. Attend bi-weekly Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARAC) and ensure communication of actions/risk to practitioners.
18. Record, interpret, and present health information and issues that can impact on the risk or needs assessment of child/children.
19. Identify service gaps and issues relating to effective clinical pathways and escalate evidence of ineffective safeguarding arrangements within the Trust.
20. Report to the Named Professionals when issues require escalation or where the case is likely to become subject to press or public interest.
21. Scope local needs of vulnerable families and collaborate with frontline staff and the Safeguarding team to develop and implement strategies for supporting vulnerable families.
22. In collaboration with the Clinical Governance Department, undertake child protection quality and audit monitoring.
23. Highlight, challenge, and document poor practice, facilitating inter-agency child safeguarding, contextual safeguarding, and Think Family training.
24. Develop quality assurance and audit programmes to monitor and maintain quality of supervision in line with clinical governance principles.
25. Ensure staff keep accurate and comprehensive records, including reports for case conferences and in preparation for court attendance.
26. Audit and review staff records during supervision sessions, highlighting challenges to staff and managers as appropriate.
27. Support staff in the completion of their court reports.
28. Provide accessible support and supervision for staff working in potentially high-risk situations.
29. Develop dynamic networks and communicate effectively with Trust staff, Community Care Service Providers, Social Care, and other relevant agencies.
30. Raise managers’ awareness of Safeguarding poor practice and associated risks.

Job Info

Job Title: Child Safeguarding Advisor

Company: CV-Library

Location: Cross site between Lewisham and Woolwich, South East London

Posted: [Date]

Closes: [Date]

Sector: Public Sector

Contract: Temporary

Hours: Full Time