Children's Safeguarding Care Coordinator

Erewash Health Partnership; Ilkeston; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A local health partnership is seeking a Children's Safeguarding Care Coordinator to improve care coordination for vulnerable families while reducing administrative workload for practices. The ideal candidate will have strong people skills, the ability to manage sensitive information, and experience in a safeguarding environment. Responsibilities include coordinating safeguarding activities across practices and supporting compliance with local regulatory standards. A crucial role within the healthcare team, offering competitive salary based on experience.

Qualifications

• Evidence of working in a safeguarding environment.
• Experience working in a primary care or healthcare setting.
• Experience of multi-tasking and working under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate care for vulnerable families.
• Share safeguarding information with other agencies.
• Participate in child case conferences and strategy meetings.

Skills

Excellent people skills

Organisational abilities

Multi-tasking

Integrity

Education

5 GCSEs or equivalent

Tools

Systm1

Job description

Children's Safeguarding Care Coordinator

We have a fantastic new job opportunity at Erewash PCN. We're hiring a Children's Safeguarding Care Coordinator.

In this role, you will coordinate care for vulnerable families, which will significantly reduce the admin workload for our practices and GPs. You'll also strengthen connections across our practices and improve our regulatory compliance.

As our Children's Safeguarding Care Coordinator, you will provide essential safeguarding support throughout all our practices. This means collaborating closely with clinicians, practice support staff, and external agencies. It's a diverse and challenging role, so you'll need excellent people skills and organisational abilities. You will manage sensitive and confidential information daily, so integrity is crucial.

Main duties of the job

• Gather information to inform the assessment of risk when a concern is raised by a member of staff or advised to the practice by a partner agency.
• Share children's safeguarding relevant information with other agencies in an agreed format and timely manner.
• With the approval of the Lead GP, and oversight by the responsible GP:
  • Partake in child case conferences.
  • Attend Strategy meetings
  • Provide Child protection Conference reports
• Work alongside the practice manager and GP leads to:
  • Coordinate and quality assure regular practice children's safeguarding meetings (Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDTs)).
  • Maintain and utilise children's safeguarding risk registers.
  • Support the audit of practice children's safeguarding activities.
  • Search clinical systems to identify children not brought to appointments.
  • To improve data quality of recording of safeguarding concerns in the patient record.
  • Implement and assure practice policies and procedures that safeguard patients.
  • Embed local and national safeguarding recommendations.
  • Demonstrate a-g above to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) when required.
• Form an important link between the practice and the Derbyshire Children's Safeguarding Board, to:
  • Ensure effective collaboration with statutory safeguarding reviews.
  • Partake in local safeguarding projects and pilots.
  • Provide feedback to Derby & Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (DDICB) teams on how best to support practices.
• Report to EHP Senior Leadership Team and work with the Safeguarding Lead to:
  • Support the audit of EHP children's safeguarding activities.
  • Implement and assure EHP policies and procedures that safeguard patients.
  • Demonstrate a-b above to CQC when required.
• Demonstrate a flexible attitude and be prepared to carry out other duties as may be reasonably required from time to time within the general character of the post or the level of responsibility of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner.
• Work in accordance with the EHP, PCN practices policies and procedures.
• Contribute to the wider aims and objectives of the PCN to improve and support primary care.

About us

Erewash Health Partnership (EHP) was established on 1 April 2018 and is a single GP Partnership comprising eight constituent practices. EHP employs approximately 250 people who work within the eight constituent practices and within the EHP central team, which provides support services (e.g., finance, operational, data & performance).

As well as providing high quality core primary care services, EHP is the prime provider for delivering services to Erewash Primary Care Network (EPCN), as well as operating its own services for EHP Partners.

To provide children's safeguarding support across the practices, you will be working closely with clinicians, practice support staff and external agencies. This is a varied and demanding role requiring the job holder to possess first-class interpersonal and organisational skills. You will be dealing with highly sensitive and confidential information on a day-to-day basis and will demonstrate the highest level of integrity.

The aim of this post is to improve coordination of care for vulnerable families in Erewash, reduce administrative burden on practices and GPs, strengthen connections between practices and improve regulatory compliance.

You will work as part of a small team linking into the wider General Practice Safeguarding lead GPs.

Job responsibilities

Job Summary

To provide children's safeguarding support across the practices, working closely with clinicians, practice support staff and external agencies. This is a varied and demanding role requiring the job holder to possess first-class interpersonal and organisational skills. You will be dealing with highly sensitive and confidential information on a day-to-day basis and will demonstrate the highest level of integrity.

The aim of this post is to improve coordination of care for vulnerable families in Erewash, reduce administrative burden on practices and GPs, strengthen connections between practices and improve regulatory compliance.

Please note this role is not a clinical role.

At all times the post holder is to behave in a professional way that encourages quality care, the development of a team spirit and fosters continual improvement across the PCN.

This job description is not intended to be exhaustive.

The post-holder will be expected to carry out any other duties that may reasonably be required or directed in line with the main duties and level of the role to meet the changing needs of EHP and EPCN.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Gather information to inform the assessment of risk when a concern is raised by a member of staff or advised to the practice by a partner agency.
• Share children's safeguarding relevant information with other agencies in an agreed format and timely manner.
• With the approval of the Lead GP, and oversight by the responsible GP:
  • Partake in child case conferences.
  • Attend Strategy meetings
  • Provide Child protection Conference reports
• Work alongside the practice manager and GP leads to:
  • Coordinate and quality assure regular practice children's safeguarding meetings (MDTs).
  • Maintain and utilise children's safeguarding risk registers.
  • Support the audit of practice children's safeguarding activities.
  • Search clinical systems to identify children not brought to appointments.
  • To improve data quality of recording of safeguarding concerns in the patient record.
  • Implement and assure practice policies and procedures that safeguard patients.
  • Embed local and national safeguarding recommendations.
  • Demonstrate a-g above to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) when required.
• Form an important link between the practice and the Derbyshire Children's Safeguarding Board, to:
  • Ensure effective collaboration with statutory safeguarding reviews.
  • Partake in local safeguarding projects and pilots.
  • Provide feedback to Derby & Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (DDICB) teams on how best to support practices.
• Report to EHP Senior Leadership Team and work with the Safeguarding Lead to:
  • Support the audit of EHP children's safeguarding activities.
  • Implement and assure EHP policies and procedures that safeguard patients.
  • Demonstrate a-b above to CQC when required.
• Demonstrate a flexible attitude and be prepared to carry out other duties as may be reasonably required from time to time within the general character of the post or the level of responsibility of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner.
• Work in accordance with the EHP, PCN practices policies and procedures.
• Contribute to the wider aims and objectives of the PCN to improve and support primary care.

Key internal relationships

• Practice Managers
• Clinicians working within Erewash
• Administrative teams working within Erewash

Key external relationships

• Derby and Derbyshire Children's Safeguarding Partnership
• Other key external agencies e.g., Police

General Responsibilities for All Staff

• Confidentiality

Whilst seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.

In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.

Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practices/EHP/PCN may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Person Specification

Experience

• Evidence of working in a safeguarding environment
• Experience of multi-tasking and working under pressure
• Experience of working in an office environment
• Experience of working in a primary care/healthcare setting
• Experience of using Systm1 clinical system
• Experience of clinical coding
• Experience of medical terminology
• Experience of complex medical terminology
• Experience of complex administration and record keeping

Qualifications

• Secondary education 5 GCSE's or equivalent
• Evidence of continued professional development

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 CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£22,950 to £25,700 a year. Dependent on experience