Paediatric Liaison Public Health Practitioner/ Safeguarding Advisor

CROYDON HEALTH SERVICES NHS TRUST; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional NHS health service provider in London is seeking a paediatric liaison public health practitioner to join their safeguarding team. You will provide essential support to children and families, ensuring a seamless care transition. This role includes training provision and collaboration with various health and social care agencies, emphasizing the safeguarding of children. Ideal candidates will have a nursing qualification and experience in safeguarding practices.

Benefits

Supportive work environment

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Experience in safeguarding children and young people.
• Ability to work collaboratively with various healthcare sectors.
• Capable of delivering training and supervision.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to children and families during their care.
• Collaborate with the safeguarding team on statutory responsibilities.
• Participate in multi-agency safeguarding meetings.

Skills

Enthusiastic practitioner

Experience in safeguarding

Collaboration with health agencies

Training and supervision

Education

Nursing qualification

Job description

Croydon Health Service (CHS) NHS Trust are looking for an enthusiastic practitioner to join the safeguarding team as paediatric liaison public health practitioner/ safeguarding advisor., CHS has a think family approach to safeguarding children, within our integrated safeguarding team (maternity, children, adults, and children looked after (CHSIST)). We are seeking a specialist nurse practitioner to provide support to children and families at the interface of acute and community care working 30 hours a week.

The paediatric liaison service is an essential post for Croydon health service to support responsibly and safely. The post holder will be based in the hospital working closely with health and social care agencies, acute and community sectors ensure infants. children and young people and families experience is seamless transition after attendance to Croydon University hospital (acute setting).

The post includes delivery training and offering supervision to wide range of health practitioners. The post holder will also collaborate closely with the team of safeguarding advisors to support the team with their statutory responsibilities., Develop standards and protocols for liaison and information sharing so that this function is carried out safely and consistently by staff in emergency department while ensuring good record keeping standards in the emergency department.

Identify and implement consultation with colleagues any systems which may improve the hospital contribution to safeguarding children.Participate in multi-agency safeguarding meetings both within the hospital, pan health and inter agency.

To continue to develop paediatric liaison within the Paediatric and Adult Emergency Department (16 years old to 18 years old go into adult emergency department) as a key team member working closely with hospital departments, community, local authority and other health and multi-agency service.

Forge close working links with adult emergency department ensuring systems are in place for recognition and referral/liaison where parents or carers are seen with features which indicate they could pose a risk to children in their care.

Croydon Health Services provides integrated NHS services to care for people at home, in schools, and health clinics across the borough as well as at Croydon University Hospital and Purley War Memorial Hospital.CUH provides more than one hundred specialist services and is home to the borough's only Emergency Department and 24/7 maternity services, including a labour ward, midwifery-led birth centre and the Crocus home birthing team.Purley War Memorial Hospital (PWMH) in the south of the borough offers outpatient care, including diagnostic services, physiotherapy and ophthalmology services run by Moorfields Eye Hospital, alongside an onsite GP surgery.

Our experienced staff take care of people of all ages across the borough of Croydon.We are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where everyone of our 3600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset.