Think Family Safeguarding Children Lead

Cambridgeshire Community Services is looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, Safeguarding Lead who would like an opportunity to be a part of a dynamic, friendly and supportive Safeguarding Team.

If you would like to be part of a Team that plays a crucial role in supporting health practitioners across multiple disciplines within their practice to ensure they can safeguard children and young people, this is the role for you.

A working knowledge of the Working Together 2023 and knowledge and experience of working with Vulnerable Families and multi agencies would be an expectation of a practitioner applying for this role.

This role is based in the Peterborough area; however, there is an expectation of travelling to meet the needs of practitioners.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Lead on the development of defined areas of safeguarding practice as determined by the Named Professional and Head of Safeguarding.
2. Provide support and leadership within and across Cambridgeshire Community Services on all matters relating to safeguarding children and identifying when adults are at risk.
3. Embed the Think Family approach and liaise with the expertise of the adult safeguarding team when working with adults at risk within the family environment.
4. Contribute to the design and implementation of the Think Family approach promoting evidence-based practice in safeguarding within Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust (CCS).
5. Support the robust and effective clinical governance of safeguarding children and adults at risk processes in place.
6. Provide safeguarding advice, support, and safeguarding supervision to frontline staff working with children, young people and their families and signpost to the adult safeguarding team when adults at risk have been identified.
7. Support the safeguarding team in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) ensuring effective timely communication and information sharing both internally and externally which supports multidisciplinary/interagency working.
8. Be an integral part of the Locality leadership team, working alongside other Band 7 colleagues in the office environment under the leadership of the Named Professional to promote a high-quality, efficient and effective service.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name: Tracy Donovan
Job title: Named Professional Safeguarding Children
Email address: tracy.donovan@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07783 885934

Michelle Seddon, Safeguarding Children Lead can also be contacted on: 07983 345423