Job summary
An exciting role has arisen to work as a health representative in the Barnet Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH), where you will work as part of a multi-agency team. The role will require you to collate and analyse health information in relation to risk of significant harm, contribute to multi-agency decision making to safeguard and protect children.
Are you a Specialist Public Health Practitioner, Registered Health Visitor or School Nurse qualified with Safeguarding training and experience? Are you seeking a challenging yet rewarding role that involves working with various agencies to safeguard children and families?
We invite you to consider the pivotal role of a MASH Health Practitioner.
Why this role could be for You:
Play a critical role in safeguarding and protecting children by collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team.
As a key clinician you will analyse health information to assess risks and contribute to crucial multi-agency decision-making processes.
You will work in a team where your expertise will contribute to the day-to-day running of the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub function in safeguarding and protecting children.
If you are passionate about making a difference and have the qualifications and experience required, we would like to hear from you!
Join us and be a part of a dedicated team committed to safeguarding the wellbeing of children and families.
Main duties of the job
Represent Health and work as part of the MASH within Barnet.
Provide a seamless response to all safeguarding concerns to children's social care as part of the single point of access.
Be responsible for health input to the assessment, discussions and decisions made by the MASH team.
Proactively engage with health staff who deliver frontline services and provide specialist children's safeguarding information, advice, guidance, and support to promote the health and welfare of children.
Work with the Whittington Health (Barnet) Children Safeguarding Team to develop and implement the health systems and processes within the MASH and to ensure that there is an effective audit in place for monitoring the management of referrals requiring health input.
Collate qualitative and quantitative data on the workflow through MASH Health.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.
We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.
The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work. Whittington Health is a dynamic integrated care organisation providing community and acute healthcare across several north London boroughs. You will be part of a large safeguarding team, as well as working alongside police and social care.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be part of a co-located multi-agency team including police officers, social workers, probation officers and others (housing, education).
Represent Health at any required subgroups and operational meetings.
Be supported by The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Safeguarding Children Team including for safeguarding/child protection supervision and attending relevant childrens safeguarding meetings.
Have a clear understanding of and work within Whittington Healths safeguarding policies and guidelines.
Through liaison and dialogue identify, collate, and analyse the relevant health information to contribute to the multi-agency risk assessment.
Be required to maintain constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders and specifically health professionals from a wide range of services and disciplines.
Record, interpret and present health information and issues from a range of perspectives that can impact on the risk or needs assessment of children & young people. This may involve disclosing relevant information on the parents or carers to ensure the information is processed fairly and proportionately.
Contribute to the development and implementation of data collection systems andMASH protocols that will provide accurate and timely data safely and effectively with due regard to the UN convention for the rights of children, The Children Act 1989 and 2004 and the Human Rights Act, and within the bounds of patient confidentiality, GDPR and the Data Protection Act.
Be familiar with and work to the London Safeguarding Childrens Boards Child Protection Procedures, Working Together (2023) and current relevant legislation.
Explain clearly, and with sound rationale, highly complex safeguarding children information to a wide range of professionals.
Participate in the MASH multi-agency risk assessment to inform the case management, advising where necessary and challenging decisions when appropriate.
Liaise with health colleagues/other health agencies where necessary and to support their attendance at strategy meetings.
To actively gather, share information and participate in strategy meetings and other MASH safeguarding meetings.
Disseminate and communicate decisions and appropriate health information to relevant health professionals including the Named Nurse and/or Doctor where appropriate and for sharing best practice.
Identify service gaps and issues relating to effective clinical pathways and /or cross-boundary arrangements. Escalate evidence of ineffective safeguarding arrangements within or outside of the MASH.
Immediately report to the statutory Named Safeguarding Children Professionals and/or the Executive Safeguarding Children Lead when issues require escalation or where the case is likely to become subject to press or public interest.
Record appropriate information about health outcomes on the appropriate MASH recording system on a case-by-case basis.
Assist in the evaluation and analysis of the health contribution to the MASH process.
Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services, and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise.
The post holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager and be proactive in covering other aspects of the safeguarding childrens team workload.
The post holder will be part of a co-located multi-agency team including police officers, social workers, probation officers and others (housing, education).
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (Adult or Child) with current NMC registration
- Specialist Public Health Practitioner, Registered Health Visitor or School Nurse with 3 years post qualification experience.
- Educated to degree level.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Sound Knowledge of multi-agency working (children and families).
- Evidence of continuing professional development in safeguarding and protecting children to level 3.
- Experience of managing risks and reporting and escalating concerns.
- Experience of participating in safeguarding strategy meetings, case conferences, writing safeguarding reports and chronologies.
- Sound Knowledge of legislation and policy, e.g. Children Act 1989, 2004, Data protection, NHS Confidentiality Guidance, Working Together and Pan London Child Protection Procedures.
- Experience of holding child protection case load.
Desirable
- Experience in providing safeguarding supervision and have knowledge the supervision process.
- Experience of working in the MASH/or significant Safeguarding experience.
- Experience in providing safeguarding supervision and have knowledge the supervision process.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to partners from a broad range of agencies, disciplines, and services
- Ability to assess, advise and refer appropriately in situations involving complex needs.
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making for safeguarding children and young people.
- Ability to present the health perspective to multi-agency meetings.
- Demonstrate sound decision-making skills.
Desirable
- Ability to be self-motivated, use initiative and work as an autonomous practitioner.
- Ability to provide advice and guidance with tact and sensitivity.
- Ability to be self-motivated, use initiative and work as an autonomous practitioner.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
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 .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Address
London Borough of Barnet
2 Bristol Avenue,
Colindale
NW9 4EW