Coordinator for Child Death Review Meetings

Job summary

This role supports the Head of Safeguarding Adults and Children and Patient safety.

The role offers opportunity to build and develop CWPTs response to their statutory duties regarding the Child death review meeting process.

The role entails working across the local health and social care economies to respond, review and develop learning from the deaths of children who are under the care of CWPT.

The scope of the post includes cooperation across agencies in the contribution and development of child protection practice, supervision, education, accountability, governance, and provision of expert advice based upon mandatory and statutory frameworks and guidelines. Working collaboratively in providing high quality evidence-based services to support the development of effective inter-disciplinary and inter-agency relationships with the Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP) other NHS Trusts, Local Authority, Police, Education, and other Statutory and Voluntary agencies in order to minimise the risks to children and their families.

CDOP is a multi-agency group responsible for reviewing all child deaths (up to age 18) within a specific local authority area. The purpose of the CDOP is to identify any modifiable factors that may have contributed to the death and to make recommendations to prevent future similar deaths.

The post holder is required to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information where significant barriers to acceptance need to be overcome.

Main duties of the job

• The work as the Coordinator for the Child Death Review Meetings (CDRM), organising the processes and statutory requirements to allow the trust to fulfil their duties under the Child Death Review Statutory and Operational Guidance (England October 2018)
• Support staff, and work in a multi-agency way to Chair and adhere to the CDRM.
• To support and provide guidance to Trust staff on a day-to-day basis, regarding the CDRM process.
• Clinical leadership, advice, and support, proactive and reactive to Trust staff and their managers in relation to the CDRM process.
• Promote best practice within the Trust and with other agencies.
• Contribute to the development of the Trust training programme, participating in the delivery to meet the CDRM training needs of Trust staff.
• Monitor professional practice, within the identified locality through a variety of methods, to ascertain whether child protection policies, procedures and standards are adhered to in the CDRM process.
• Provide and maintain a framework for CDRM ensuring compliance with NMC and Trust policies, including record keeping, are adhered to.
• Facilitate the sharing of professional information, knowledge, and experience to challenge assumptions and attitudes that may influence practice.
• Maintain and improve the quality of services to children in need/need of protection, through audit and evaluation and monitor quality of provision.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.