Safeguarding Facilitator

NHS; Welwyn Garden City; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS seeks candidates to join their Safeguarding Team, focusing on administering safeguarding referrals and ensuring patient safety. This role will require strong administrative skills and a commitment to managing sensitive information responsibly while contributing to a collaborative and effective safeguarding environment.

Qualifications

• Administrative experience required for managing safeguarding referrals.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential data effectively.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate administration of safeguarding referrals and incident management.
• Support data entry, general enquiries, and reports.

Skills

Administrative Experience

Job description

To facilitate the administration of timely, accurate, and high-quality safeguarding referrals, in partnership with the wide Safeguarding Team. The post holders will also support the administration of safeguarding-related incident management, multiagency working, information requests, reports, data entry, and general enquiries.

Main duties of the job

Principle Responsibilities will include (please see attached job description):

1. Work as part of the safeguarding team to form a dedicated Safeguarding Hub under the guidance and leadership of the Safeguarding Facilitatory Team Lead, Head of Safeguarding, and Safeguarding Lead.
2. Facilitate the administration of timely, accurate, and high-quality safeguarding referrals to support patient safety and wellbeing following concerns identified by HUC colleagues throughout the services.
3. Support the administration of wider safeguarding workstreams, including incidents, complaints, audits, multiagency working, information requests, reports, data entry, and general enquiries.
4. Be a role model to colleagues and promote Think Family Principles across the organisation.
5. Manage sensitive and confidential data professionally and responsibly.
6. Cross-reference safeguarding concern forms for both children and adults with Adastra to ensure correct details are shared with the appropriate agency.
7. Transpose information from safeguarding concern forms to the appropriate Local Authority, ensuring the full patient journey is captured prior to submission.

About us

Every patient deserves our highest standard of care and commitment. By working together innovatively, transparently, and constructively with the local community and stakeholders, we can deliver services that meet their specific needs. We learn by listening to patients' views and experiences. We are passionate about sharing our knowledge and expertise by encouraging dialogue both internally and externally to meet our high expectations for patients.

Job responsibilities

For full details of the job description and person specification, please see attached documentation.

Person Specification

Skills

• Administrative Experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, a submission for Disclosure will be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.