Health Practitioner for Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)

Client:

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Thurrock, United Kingdom

Job Category:

-

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

75b572dbede2

Job Views:

16

Posted:

01.05.2025

Expiry Date:

15.06.2025

Job Description:

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

Are you a Registered Children's Nurse/SCHPN qualified or equivalent and have safeguarding training or experience?

Do you have a passion for safeguarding children and improving outcomes for children and families?

Are you interested in multi- agency partnership working?

Then the MASH health practitioner role may be for you!

The principal role of the MASH Health Practitioner is to gather and analyse proportionate health information which contributes to protecting children and improving outcomes for children and families.

Thurrock has a multi-cultural community, providing the opportunity to work with a diverse population. You will work in a supportive, dynamic, integrated team environment. The MASH Practitioner is key in implementing the MASH Health process working collaboratively with team members and other agencies to deliver a true multi agency approach to assess risk and decision making.

Main duties of the job

• To collect and collate information from health records in accordance with agreed Information.
• Sharing Protocol and in compliance with data protection regulations.
  To ensure sharing of relevant information as requested by MASH team .
• Ensure information to be shared is researched and shared within agreed timescales.
• Co-ordinate data to support team activity and the management team in ensuring resources are targeted to areas of greatest need and promoting joint interventions.
• Attending meetings to maintain intelligence gathering and actively engage in panel meetings.
• Attend Daily Risk Management (DRM) and Strategy meetings.

Respond to requests for health information within the MASH, by gathering, analysing and sharing relevant and proportionate health information to safeguard and protect children and improved outcomes for children and families.

To maintain effective working together with partner agencies within the wider MASH Team.

Liaise with health colleagues/other health agencies where necessary in order to gather relevant health information and share concern/decision on a need to know basis with identified health actions.

Working for our organisation

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High Cost Area Supplement - Fringe

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £1,192 to a maximum of £2,011 pro rata for part time).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Specification for further detail for job description and main responsibilities of the role.

Person specification

Qulaification

• NMC pin number
• SCPHN or Equivalent training

Knowledge/experience in partnership working

• Safeguarding training
• Experience working with multi agency working
• Experience working with safeguarding children work
• Good Understanding/ knowledge in MASH

Have a flexible approach to team and autonomous working

• Able to manage own work load
• Able to prioritise work load

Good knowledges of current legislation relating to safeguarding children and young people and how it relates to clinical practice

• Knowledge in local and national policies

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

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Created on 01/05/2025 by TN United Kingdom