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Job summary

Main area
Registered Professional
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
444-6942970-BL
Employer
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Wayside House
Town
Coventry
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
09/02/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust logo

MASH Named Health Professional for Safeguarding Children

NHS AfC: Band 7

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.

Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services

We recognise the benefits of flexible working and support applications wherever possible. If you would like to work flexibly please ask the recruiting manager for more information.’

Armed Forces Community welcome to apply.

PLEASE NOTE that this vacancy can be closed as soon as sufficient applications are received. Staff at risk within the Trust will be given priority.

Please check your emails, including junk and spam folders, regularly throughout the process of your application for any notifications from the Recruitment Team.   If you have any queries regarding your application please phone the Partnership Trust Recruitment Department.

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Job overview

Multi-Agency: Safeguarding Hub (MASH) Named Health Professional for Safeguarding Children - Band 7
Based with MASH Team at Friargate house, Coventry
An exciting opportunity for a Multi-agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) health practitioner in Coventry has arisen. The post holder will work in a
dynamic team and hold a senior position with a key role in the day-to-day running of the MASH.
The applicant needs experience collating information from a wide range of systems including mental health, learning disabilities, autism, and
universal services
As a key clinician in the MASH, you will be responsible for analysing and interpreting health information, about the risk of significant harm to
children and families.
You will contribute to multi-agency decision-making to safeguard and protect children. You will have expertise in working with child safeguarding issues and experience in working with multiagency and multidisciplinary colleagues, to inform decisions.

This postholder will need to have a good knowledge of reflective practice and be able to demonstrate this to support themselves and others

Main duties of the job

The main duties are to manage and analyse highly complex information to appropriately inform strategy meetings and risk assessments within the
MASH. This will involve you ensuring that information is collated, recorded, and disseminated promptly and participating in MASH management meetings to ensure continued health contribution to the development of the MASH function.
To highlight concerns regarding practice to the appropriate Lead Named Professional within the provider organisation. To maintain high standards
of record keeping and documentation on cases where information has been shared.

Working for our organisation

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.
These include:
• 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 groups
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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the main description of The MASH Safeguarding Hub Named Health Professional for Safeguarding Children responsibilities please read the
job description

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Professional
  • Educated to degree level/Professional Health Registration or experience in safeguarding /child protection

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent knowledge/skills in safeguarding children, young people
  • Evidence of continued professional development in safeguarding children to level 3 (Intercollegiate Guidance 2019)
  • Understanding of the multiagency roles involved with children & families / Think Family
  • Understanding of the wider healthcare environment and multidisciplinary roles
  • Sound knowledge of local and national legislation and policy, e.g., Children Act 1989, GDPR, Working Together to Safeguarding Children (2023) Care Act 2014, Domestic Abuse Act 2021
  • Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to partners from a broad range of agencies, disciplines, and services.
  • Ability to analyse very complex issues where the material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
  • Able to challenge decisions and escalate in an articulate rational manner
  • Experience/skills in identifying and responding to Children who have been the victims of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA)

Other

Essential criteria
  • Able to travel for work purposes and have access to an independent means of transport.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

National Interim Quality MarkNHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Penny Wilson
Job title
Lead Nurse for Safeguarding Children
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07917132090
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