At Lakeside Healthcare as part of the PCN expansion, we are looking to employ two part-time (20 hours and 25 hours per week) Safeguarding Care Co-ordinators. The successful candidate will form part of the busy safeguarding team based at Forestgate Surgery.
The Safeguarding team covers all the GP surgeries within the Lakeside Healthcare Group and the 4 PCNs across the county, and the ability to travel between sites is essential.
At Lakeside Healthcare, we work in partnership with countywide professionals to ensure that safeguarding adults and children is high on the agenda. We require staff who share a passion for ensuring adults and children within our geographical area are supported and given the opportunity to achieve in life.
The ideal candidates will be highly motivated, flexible, and able to work competently under pressure within a busy working environment.
We require you to have excellent communication, planning, organisational, and prioritisation skills and the ability to work well as a member of an increasingly busy and demanding team. Previous experience of working in an organisation delivering care to vulnerable children and adults will be of value.
Main duties of the job
* Through liaison, research, and dialogue identify and collate relevant health information to add to multi-disciplinary risk assessment discussions and Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings (MDTs).
* Under the supervision of the Head of Safeguarding, provide timely and accurate case conference reports and health safeguarding reports as requested, as part of the Multi-agency Safeguarding processes across all areas within the Primary Care Network.
Job responsibilities
Job Summary: To carry out the role and responsibilities of a Safeguarding Care Co-ordinator for the Safeguarding Team on behalf of the Primary Care Network Practices.
Job Responsibilities: The post holder will work as a member of the Safeguarding Team to ensure a high-quality safeguarding service is delivered to all PCN GP Surgeries within Rockingham Forest PCN, South Peterborough PCN, St Neots PCN, and Four Counties PCN. This will include providing advice, support, and relevant information to a multitude of professionals, enabling the Safeguarding Team to assess the most appropriate plan of action for each adult and child case reviewed.
* Attend key meetings as required, such as the practice Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings (MDTs).
* Collate and record accurate minutes of any child and adult safeguarding meetings attended and ensure GP actions from these meetings are processed in a timely manner.
* Provide support and guidance to all Primary Care Network staff with support from the Head of Safeguarding.
* Under the guidance of the Head of Safeguarding, proactively review case files for individual patients in relation to levels 2-4 of local Thresholds and Pathways procedure.
* Ensure patient records are reviewed and maintained by the team, complying and adhering to any GDPR, Subject Access requests, and safeguarding report requests while ensuring patient confidentiality in line with the seven golden rules of information sharing.
* Seek to obtain written and or verbal consent for the release of any GP information unless to do so would be detrimental to the child or adult or cause further risk, in line with the Primary Care Network Practice policies.
* Respond to requests for health information in a timely and professional manner.
* Contribute to the collection of data for safeguarding metrics that accurately reflects the safeguarding team activity.
* Participate in audit activity as required within the safeguarding team.
* Manage and maintain the safeguarding information database to ensure cases are reviewed in line with agreed timescales.
* Raise any safeguarding concerns directly to the Head of Safeguarding/Safeguarding Nurse or the Safeguarding practice GP for adults and children.
* Contribute to the delivery of safeguarding information and training for all practices within the Primary Care Network.
Your normal place of work will be Lakeside Healthcare Forest Gate in Corby or within the associated Primary Care Network and its practices, or such other place as the Group may reasonably determine. Ability to travel within these practices will be required at various times during your working week.
Person Specification
Experience
* Computer literate, including Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel. Producing reports and carrying out audits.
* Experience of working as a secretary/administrator.
* Experience of working in a healthcare setting.
* Experience of working directly with the general public.
* System One and EMIS.
* Database Management.
Qualifications
* Good standard of education, min C grade GCSE (or equivalent) in English.
* Excellent use of English (verbal and written) Shorthand.
* RSA 3, City and Guilds, NVQ 3 or equivalent level of knowledge or competency.
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.
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