A Vacancy at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust.
This role supports to the Head of Safeguarding Adults and Children
The role entails working across the local health and social care economies to prevent harm, fostering and facilitating multi-professional interagency
working in respect of Safeguarding Children.
Ensuring statutory responsibilities of the Children Act (1989 & 2004) are met. These obligations are fulfilled by providing clinical guidance across
the field of safeguarding and protecting children.
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 other NHS Trusts, Local Authority, Police, Education and other Statutory and Voluntary agencies in order to minimise the risks to children and their families.
The post holder is required to use the highest levels of interpersonal and communication skills.
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 (2018) and Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023).
This role supports to the Head of Safeguarding Adults and Children
The role entails working across the local health and social care economies to prevent harm, fostering and facilitating multi-professional
interagency working in respect of Safeguarding Children.
Ensuring statutory responsibilities of the Children Act (1989 & 2004) are met. These obligations are fulfilled by providing clinical guidance across
the field of safeguarding and protecting children.
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 other NHS Trusts, Local Authority, Police, Education and other Statutory and Voluntary agencies in order to minimise the risks to children and their families.
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 using the highest levels of interpersonal and communication skills.
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.
To support and provide guidance to Trust staff on a day to day basis, dealing with cases of actual or suspected child abuse and to
provide practice support for staff delivering services to safeguard children.
To support and provide guidance to the Trust staff, on a day-to-day basis in relation to CDRM and to ensure children are appropriately safeguarded.
To deputise regarding outcomes from CDRM at the Trusts Mortality Review meetings
• Clinical leadership, advice and support, proactive and reactive to Trust staff and their managers in relation to safeguarding children.
• 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 safeguarding children training
needs of Trust staff.
• Ensure newly qualified/appointed Trust staff are introduced to the LSCB’s and Trust policy and procedures, including awareness of the
requirements placed upon them by the Trust, Child Protection training strategy.
• Monitor professional practice, within the identified locality through a variety of methods, including child protection supervision, to ascertain
whether child protection policies, procedures and standards are adhered to.
• Provide and maintain a framework for child protection supervision to Trust staff and act as a supervisor analysing sensitive and complex
information and the range of actions necessary, ensuring compliance with NMC and Trust policies, including record keeping, are adhered to.
• During child protection supervision 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.
Please also see Job Description
This advert closes on Wednesday 12 Mar 2025