0-19 years Safeguarding Administrator

Job summary

0-19 years Safeguarding Administrator

Full Time - Permanent - Band 3

The 0-19 Safeguarding Administrator will take the lead for providing seamless, confidential support to the 0-19 Public Health Nursing (PHN) Team on all matter relating to safeguarding.

They will be based within the 0-19 universal children's administration hub but have a strong link to the Croydon Health Integrated Safeguarding Team to ensure continuity and act as a conduit between the two services, providing efficient support to PHN's. This will include administrative management of safeguarding processes, maintenance of accurate and up to date data systems, information sharing processes and effective team working.

Proposed Interview Date - 6th February 2025

Main duties of the job

• To be the key point of contact for all matters relating to 0-19 years safeguarding administrative activity.
• To provide support to assist communication between hospital and community staff regarding the 0 - 19 service users, this will entail using a combination of telephone, email, and postal communication systems.
• To work closely with the ED Health Visitor Liaison, disseminating patient ED Discharge Summaries/other sensitive documents as required for 0 - 19-year-olds, including processing of records and database as needed.
• To maintain administrative systems, including effective and up-to-date data filing, tracking systems and maintaining of the safeguarding databases for patients/clients.
• Support the maintenance of a safeguarding training and supervision database for practitioners.
• To provide data relating to 0-19 safeguarding activity to both the safeguarding and PHN managers as and when required
• To undertake work processing of letters, reports and other documents and information using IT systems, such as Cerner, EMIS and Microsoft Office programmes as required.

About us

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provide hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon. The Trust was formed on 1st August 2010 through the integration of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust. Around 4,100 staff provide services for a population of over 360,000 people who are relatively young with a high level of ethnic diversity.

Our main hospital site, Croydon University Hospital is one of the busiest in London. We're also leading the way in providing more healthcare outside hospitals at clinics, specialist centres and in people's homes. Our experienced district nursing teams, Allied Health Professionals and community matrons look after people of all ages across Croydon and our Children's Hospital at Home cares for children with long-term conditions without them having to come to hospital.

Across the NHS everyone is working hard to meet growing demand and we're no exception. But with the right people on board, we are rising to this challenge, putting our people in the driving seat, encouraging innovation and transforming our services to give local people the quality of care they deserve. Croydon Health Services puts a great deal of importance on education and training throughout the careers of all of our staff. As well as offering access to a range of core skills training and professional development.