Job overview
Are you a clinician who likes to problem solve and use your analytical skills to support practitioners managing risk to children, adults and families? Would you like to join a team of compassionate highly-skilled professionals who will support your development in a safeguarding role?
We are seeking a practitioner who has a strong background working with vulnerable children and their families and/or adults with care and support needs. The core function of this post is to support the provision and implementation of safeguarding policies and procedures across the Trust.
You'll work collaboratively with MASH (Multiagency Safeguarding Hub) at County Hall as part of the safeguarding children’s partnerships as well as participating in information sharing and risk management conference. This part of the role will be two days per week but we will need your flexibility to cover additional MASH days where necessary.
You'll need to have excellent communication skills, tenacity, adaptability and resilience to work alongside us in what can be a chaotic but highly rewarding environment.
This is a full time position (37.5 hours per week) based at East Oxford Health Centre with some requirement to work from other sites across the Trust.
If this describes your expertise and sounds like a mission you'd like to be part of, we would love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
1. Sit within the MASH (Multiagency Safeguarding Hub) at County Hall working collaboratively as part of the safeguarding children’s partnerships.
2. Support the safeguarding training team to develop and facilitate safeguarding training across the directorates and multiagency.
3. Maintain regular visits as a link safeguarding professional to individual teams and sites across the trust.
4. Participate in a range of multiagency information sharing and risk management conferences. The safeguarding team are key partners in providing expert support and health information at these meetings including domestic abuse, exploitation and prevent.
5. Participate in safeguarding reviews as partners of the safeguarding boards. This will involve tasks such as writing chronologies and analysing and synchronising information across health records to provide summaries of care provision where an individual has experienced harm.
6. Support with audits and evaluation.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work. To be able to showcase yourself when making an application you are encouraged to read the “candidate guide to making an application” which is attached to all roles.
Please include details of qualifications (including years these were gained particularly if we need to assess for clinical roles that these are still valid) and tailor your supporting statement to the role you are applying for, addressing the essential criteria found in the JD.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who or where you are, you will receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing:
7. Excellent opportunities for career progression
8. Individual and Trust wide learning and development
9. 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
10. NHS Discount
11. Pension scheme
12. Lease car scheme
13. Employee Assistance Programme
14. Mental Health First Aiders
15. Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
16. Staff networking and support groups
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and guidance notes attached for further information on this role
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
17. Relevant practical experience of working with service users
18. Experience of working with children and families
19. Understanding of domestic abuse, substance misuse and mental health risk factors for children and adults
20. Practical experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team
21. Evidence of undertaking risk assessments
22. Practical experience of presenting to groups
23. Experience of mentoring, supervision, coaching colleagues
24. Experience of dealing with complex child protection issues, including attendance at case conference/core groups
Desirable criteria
25. Practical experience of developing, implementing and evaluating training
26. Experience of report writing
27. Practical experience of clinical audit
28. Has an awareness of Mental health Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
29. Evidence of contributing to the development of local policies and procedures
Qualifications – Academic/Skills/Professional
Essential criteria
30. Professional health or social care registration (e.g. NMC/HCPC)
31. Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
32. Teaching/assessing qualification and experience
33. Evidence of continuous professional development including Level 3 training in Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Adults
Desirable criteria
34. Post graduate qualification
Further Training or Job Related Aptitude and Skills
Essential criteria
35. Ability to maintain accurate records within local and national policy
36. Ability to challenge practice constructively and effectively
37. Ability to influence and engage with professionals to achieve identified goals
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
38. Work independently and have the confidence to make sound clinical judgements and decisions
39. Ability to manage your own time and competing priorities, escalating issues as required
40. Ability to work as part of a team in a collaborative manner to promote partnerships across organisational boundaries
41. Ability to identify your own learning needs and negotiate how these are met
42. Ability to demonstrate how you have been accountable for your practice and how this has developed your learning/ influenced your practice
43. Willingness to work flexibly, basing yourself with teams in OHFT as required
44. Awareness of self care strategies to maintain resilience
Contractual Requirements or other requirements
Essential criteria
45. Ability to travel between sites and work at different location as required.
46. All new starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process, aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale
47. Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments.
48. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
49. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
50. We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
51. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
52. Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
53. Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing