Job summary
Safeguarding is everyone's business.
The breadth of the role is set out below. Your weekly time
will be split proportionally across the Practices. The expectation is that the safeguarding
co-ordinator will concentrate on ensuring that Practices have a consistent,
safe and effective approach to safeguarding. Ensuring Practices are
safeguarding CQC compliant. Supporting the running of effective practice
safeguarding MDTs, of which key components include the gathering of
intelligence prior to meetings, taking minutes of decisions made at the meetings
and ensuring that agreed actions are taken. Another important area is the
provision of safeguarding reports to key partners, for example child services.
The safeguarding co-ordinator can support Practices in a number of ways, by
streamlining the process, thereby reducing the input needed from clinicians.
Main duties of the job
Work very closely with each Practices safeguarding lead
to ensure each practice has robust and effective safeguarding procedures that
ensures all patients at risk are kept as safe as possible
Ensure safeguarding policies and procedures are up to
date and consistent with agreed best practice
Maintain staff safeguarding training records and organise
appropriate role-based training for members of staff, leading the training
where appropriate.
Manage processing of safeguarding tasks and processing of
safeguarding correspondence onto patient records. Support the preparation of
timely, relevant and proportionate safeguarding reports.
Support the practices in achieving CQC compliance with
respect to the safeguarding of staff and patients.
Organising and leading regular practice safeguarding
meetings. Ensure that the practices have a vulnerable patient register which is
kept up to date.76. Help the practices foster effective relationships with
local safeguarding partners. Ensure the timely sharing of relevant information,
when safeguarding concerns arise in respect of both children and adults.
Support the practices in responding to statutory requests
for information required by the local authority to carry out local child or
adult safeguarding case reviews and assist the practices with section 42
enquiries. Disseminate learning and support the implementation of review
recommendations.
Promote the understanding of local safeguarding referral
pathways.
About us
A bit about us:
MWEB PCN serve 37,000
patients in the Northamptonshire area, made up of 4 practices and 2 branch
sites. With all demographics there are significant health challenges and our
PCN is no exception. Our aim is to deliver excellent care, and you will be part
of an experienced, stable and happy team, providing support to all Practices.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Safeguarding is everyone's business.
The breadth of the role is set out below. Your weekly time
will be split proportionally across the Practices. The expectation is that the safeguarding
co-ordinator will concentrate on ensuring that Practices have a consistent,
safe and effective approach to safeguarding. Ensuring Practices are
safeguarding CQC compliant. Supporting the running of effective practice
safeguarding MDTs, of which key components include the gathering of
intelligence prior to meetings, taking minutes of decisions made at the meetings
and ensuring that agreed actions are taken. Another important area is the
provision of safeguarding reports to key partners, for example child services.
The safeguarding co-ordinator can support Practices in a number of ways, by
streamlining the process, thereby reducing the input needed from clinicians.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Safeguarding is everyone's business.
The breadth of the role is set out below. Your weekly time
will be split proportionally across the Practices. The expectation is that the safeguarding
co-ordinator will concentrate on ensuring that Practices have a consistent,
safe and effective approach to safeguarding. Ensuring Practices are
safeguarding CQC compliant. Supporting the running of effective practice
safeguarding MDTs, of which key components include the gathering of
intelligence prior to meetings, taking minutes of decisions made at the meetings
and ensuring that agreed actions are taken. Another important area is the
provision of safeguarding reports to key partners, for example child services.
The safeguarding co-ordinator can support Practices in a number of ways, by
streamlining the process, thereby reducing the input needed from clinicians.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- - Good interpersonal skills
- - Good organisational skills planning, prioritisation, time management
- - Good team worker
- - Shows high ethical integrity - understands confidentiality
- - Respectful of diversity and the different life choices made by individuals
- - Personalised approach to the needs of individuals
- - Attention to detail
- - Understands the importance of compliance with best practice care pathways and CQC guidance
- - Ability to recognise and work within limits of competence and seek advice when needed
- - Commitment to working with people who are disadvantaged by adverse circumstances
- - Strong interest in safeguarding
- - Experience of working in the health or care sector
- - Experience of coordinating meetings and minute taking
- - Experience of using electronic health or care records
- - Creation of reports using Microsoft Word
- - Presenting information using Microsoft PowerPoint
- - Meets DBS reference standards and criminal record checks
- - Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis
- - Appropriate emotional resilience given the nature of the role
- - Able to use a keyboard and VDU for sustained periods as required by the role
Desirable
- - Experience of direct contact with patients/service users and their carers or families
- - Experience of working within a multi-professional team
- - Experience of chairing meetings
- - Experience of introducing and training on the use of new procedures and protocols
- - Experience of working in Primary Care
- - Experience of clinical terminology and coding
- - Experience of working with SystmOne
- - Experience of safeguarding in any capacity (work or voluntary)
- - Auditing adherence of colleagues to organisational policies and procedures
- - Creating a chronology of events from a health or care record based on a protocol
- - Identifying risk factors from a clinical or care record based on a protocol
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- - Good interpersonal skills
- - Good organisational skills planning, prioritisation, time management
- - Good team worker
- - Shows high ethical integrity - understands confidentiality
- - Respectful of diversity and the different life choices made by individuals
- - Personalised approach to the needs of individuals
- - Attention to detail
- - Understands the importance of compliance with best practice care pathways and CQC guidance
- - Ability to recognise and work within limits of competence and seek advice when needed
- - Commitment to working with people who are disadvantaged by adverse circumstances
- - Strong interest in safeguarding
- - Experience of working in the health or care sector
- - Experience of coordinating meetings and minute taking
- - Experience of using electronic health or care records
- - Creation of reports using Microsoft Word
- - Presenting information using Microsoft PowerPoint
- - Meets DBS reference standards and criminal record checks
- - Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis
- - Appropriate emotional resilience given the nature of the role
- - Able to use a keyboard and VDU for sustained periods as required by the role
Desirable
- - Experience of direct contact with patients/service users and their carers or families
- - Experience of working within a multi-professional team
- - Experience of chairing meetings
- - Experience of introducing and training on the use of new procedures and protocols
- - Experience of working in Primary Care
- - Experience of clinical terminology and coding
- - Experience of working with SystmOne
- - Experience of safeguarding in any capacity (work or voluntary)
- - Auditing adherence of colleagues to organisational policies and procedures
- - Creating a chronology of events from a health or care record based on a protocol
- - Identifying risk factors from a clinical or care record based on a protocol
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
