Paediatric Liaison Specialist - safeguarding children

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Uxbridge; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in West London is seeking a Paediatric Liaison Specialist to enhance communication between hospital and community services. This role involves providing expert advice on child safeguarding, supporting discharge planning, and promoting children's well-being. Candidates should possess strong safeguarding knowledge and communication skills. The position is crucial for delivering high-quality care and ensuring compliance with national guidelines.

Qualifications

• Experience in safeguarding and child welfare.
• Ability to analyse and assess safeguarding situations.
• Strong communication skills for liaising with professionals.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating communication between acute and community services.
• Providing specialist advice on safeguarding children.
• Participating in audits and supporting quality service initiatives.

Skills

Safeguarding knowledge

Communication skills

Clinical effectiveness

Job description

Job Overview

The paediatric liaison specialist contributes to the strategic development and operational implementation of the safeguarding agenda across The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder will develop, promote and facilitate appropriate referral and liaison between hospital services at The Hillingdon Hospital and Mount Vernon Hospital, Urgent Care Centre, Health Visitors, School Nurses and other community practitioners as required. Acting as a professional resource and link between Acute, Community and Primary Care services establishing good communications within these areas including wards, out-patients, A&E and maternity services. The post holder will support and work closely with the Named Professionals and Safeguarding Children Advisor in partnership to provide specialist advice on the management of safeguarding children, ensuring that children and young people and unborn who encounter services at the Trust, including children of adult patients where safeguarding concerns are identified, are safeguarded and their welfare promoted in accordance with Department of Health guidance "Working Together to Safeguard Children" (2023), Laming Enquiry and the National Service Framework for children and relevant national recommendations and guidelines.

Main Duties of the Job

This will improve and facilitate robust methods of communication enabling professionals to become more effective in identifying vulnerability indicators in children, young people and families and ensure School Nurses/Health Visitors are involved in effective discharge planning arrangements of children as appropriate. The service aims to achieve long-term health gains for children by sharing information enabling preventative work, targeted support and early intervention to improve the health and well-being of all children (including the unborn).

There is an expectation that the post holder will participate in and undertake audit as required and provide data and information as requested by the organisation to promote a quality service and support research and evidence based practice and provide day to day management of the paediatric liaison administrator.

Responsibilities and Key Result Areas

• Vision, Strategy and Business Development: The Paediatric Liaison post is the key conduit and pivotal to ensuring good communication between the acute setting and community services, ensuring that effective communication pathways and systems are in place to share information about children.
• Provide specialist knowledge, advice and guidance and be a point of contact. Analyse and assess safeguarding situations appropriately and act accordingly. Demonstrate clinical effectiveness and application of policies and procedures in practice.

About The Trust

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute Hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. The Trust's services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit and outpatient clinics.

The safety and well-being of our patients and of our staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this - particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress and going forward by working in partnership with local GPs, charities, community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitals provide high quality, safe and compassionate care, while drive forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.

We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.