Children's services safeguarding link and quality assurance lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. Communication and relationship skills

• To receive complex information and sensitive communications and deliver such information in a meaningful and timely manner to professionals, patients and carers as required, considering, and adjusting communication to any barriers to comprehension.
• Representing Medway Community Healthcare at multi-agency case conferences where some participants may be hostile, confrontational and defensive. Therefore, enhanced communication skills, including coherence, reason and empathy are necessary
• To build and maintain excellent relationships with all internal and external customers

1. Knowledge, training and experience

• Registered nurse, allied health professional or social worker with 5 years post registration experience.
• Educated or working towards degree level.
• Highly developed safeguarding knowledge and leadership, underpinned by theory and experience in practice.
• Experience of working both within a team and autonomously.
• Training in supervision and experience of facilitating supervision where safeguarding is the focus.
• Experience of developing and analysing audit data

1. Analytical and judgement skills

• Ability to analyse and effectively communicate sensitive and complex information with a range of professionals within the multi-agency arena
• Use analytical skills to audit impact of safeguarding policy and procedure on clinical care in conjunction with services.
• Compile reports as required in relation to the implementation of the safeguarding procedures in relation to quality assurance activity.
• Execute a high level of understanding when others may be defensive and/or accusatory

1. Planning and organisational skills

• Ability to plan and organise own workload
• Plan and organise clinical supervision sessions for relevant staff in line with the needs of the organisation and the relevant strategies.
• Plan and organise both patients focussed and service focussed meetings as required

1. Physical skills

• Drive or be mobile.
• Provide timely and comprehensive reports.
• Ability to analyse and present data.
• Use advanced keyboard skills to provide accurate reports/presentations/power point.
• Utilise the internet and other electronic communications in regards to updating own knowledge and communicating with others

1. Responsibility for patient / client care

• Support staff, clients, carers and relatives through the safeguarding process as necessary.
• To support staff where needed with the completion of all documentation in line with safeguarding and supporting staff with attendance as necessary.
• To ensure high standard of own documentation in regards to safeguarding.
• To coordinate responses to and from Medway Childrens Social Care and other agencies in relation to safeguarding and quality assurance

1. Responsibility for policy and service development implementation

• Contribute to policy development related to Safeguarding within Medway Community Healthcare and identify any changes to current practice, suggesting improvements where appropriate.
• To adhere to Medway Community Healthcare policies and procedures.

1. Responsibilities for financial and physical resources

• Personal responsibility for ensuring resources are used effectively

1. Responsibilities for human resources (HR)

• Facilitate own safeguarding supervision in accordance with organisational policy
• Provide Link with safeguarding for Childrens Service.

1. Responsibilities for information resources

• To have skills to write reports using computer software as and when necessary.
• To contribute to and maintain comprehensive safeguarding information systems.
• To comply with information governance requirements, maintaining patient confidentiality appropriately, using agreed organisation wide information systems.
• To comply with information governance requirements where required, in relation to staff confidentiality.

Person Specification

Diseriable

Essential

• good interpersonal skills

Essential

Essential

• shows MCH Values

Desirable

• analytical and judgement skills

Essential

Essential

• experienced Health visitor
• Leadership and management skills

Desirable

• Experience of working with safeguarding Children and Families
• Able to demonstrate community leadership
• Good communication skills

interview

Essential

• good Communication skills

Desirable

• able to work with MDT

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Medway Community Healthcare

Address

MCH House

Bailey Drive

Gillingham

ME8 0PZ

Employer's website

https://www.medwaycommunityhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)