Specialist Health Practitioner - Multi agency Screening Hub (MASH)

Transformation Unit; Halifax; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a compassionate Safeguarding Practitioner at NHS AfC Band 6 level. The role sits within the MASH, providing health-led input to safeguarding referrals for adults at risk.

You will work with statutory partners, review health information, contribute to risk assessments, and support early intervention within legal frameworks. Full-time, permanent contract, 37.5 hours per week, with flexible working.

Qualifications

• Significant post-registration experience in safeguarding environments.
• Experience with multi-agency partnership work.
• Good knowledge of national/local safeguarding policy and guidance.
• Understanding of Mental Capacity Act and relevant legislation.

Responsibilities

• Work within safeguarding frameworks to support investigation of concerns and risk management.
• Maintain knowledge of Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, DPA 2018, GDPR, Caldicott Principles.
• Contribute to initial screening/triage to determine need for safeguarding enquiry.
• Provide timely advice and reports on MASH function for safeguarding governance.
• Lead and supervise in safeguarding practice with regular safeguarding supervision.
• Be flexible to cover safeguarding work across the organisation when needed.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Analytical skills

IT literacy

Report writing

Education

NMC/HCPC registration

Health qualification (RN/Allied Health)

Degree level qualification

Teaching/assessing certificate

Job description

Main area Safeguarding Adults Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (up to 37.5 hours per week) Job ref 372-CORP2089

Employer Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Princess Building Town Halifax Salary £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata, per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 25/11/2026 23:59 Interview date 07/12/2026

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

A compassionate, skilled, experienced Safeguarding Practitioner. A unique opportunity to work at the heart of safeguarding, where timely, high-quality decision-making can change lives and improve outcomes for adults at risk.

• The postholder will work collaboratively with Statutory Safeguarding partners, acting as the dedicated health practitioner within the Calderdale MASH.
• They will review, analyse, and share confidential NHS medical data to help safeguard vulnerable adults (and children/families) at the "single front door" stage of referrals.

As the postholder you will play a pivotal role in researching and assessing health information and will work with partner agencies to support the protection and wellbeing of adults at risk (children and families). Working within a dynamic, multi-disciplinary environment, you will contribute your clinical expertise to inform risk assessments, promote early intervention, and ensure safeguarding concerns are addressed quickly and effectively, working within existing legal frameworks.

Bringing strong clinical judgement, excellent communication skills, a passion for safeguarding, the ability to work collaboratively and your ability to be flexible and responsive to support the needs of adult’s at risk and their families in Calderdale..

The postholder will be employed by CHFT. Line Management responsibility will sit with CHFT, however their daily workload will be directed and overseen by the MASH Operational Manager.

Main duties of the job

Work within safeguarding frameworks to support the Local Authorities’ role to investigate safeguarding concerns and manage risk where adult’s have experienced or are likely to experience harm.

• Demonstrate knowledge in relation to the Care Act 2014; the Mental Capacity Act 2005; the Data Protection Act 2018; GDPR and the Caldicott Principles.
• Have access to patient records to gather, share and record patient information.
• Contribute to the initial screening and triage of safeguarding concerns referred to the MASH, to determine whether the criteria for a section 42 safeguarding enquiry is met, where not met, the postholder will make recommendations about health interventions that could help reduce harm.
• Be required to maintain supportive and constructive relationships with MASH partner agencies.
• May be required to provide cover for essential safeguarding work within their own organisation where capacity allows / directed by the Head of Safeguarding.
• To work independently, be flexible, and adaptable at work to meet competing priorities and deadlines.
• Provide relevant, timely advice and reports on the function of the MASH to the Named Professionals/ Head of Safeguarding, for inclusion in Partnership / Board reports
• Provide effective leadership which promotes high performance standards both individually and as a team.
• Receive safeguarding supervision from safeguarding professionals on a regular basis.

Working for our organisation

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification below for full details about the role.

Person specification

QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING

• Professional qualification in Health (RN on part 1 of the register NMC, or relevant qualification as an Allied Health Professional)
• Current NMC/ HCPC registration
• Degree level qualification (or working towards)
• Recognised teaching and assessing certificate

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

• Significant post registration/qualification experience within a healthcare/safeguarding environment
• Experience of involvement with partnership working, including inter-professional and multi-agency working.
• Clear working knowledge and implementation of national and local safeguarding policy and guidance.
• Clear working knowledge of relevant legislation relating to safeguarding and the Mental Capacity Act.
• Demonstrates knowledge of abuse and neglect in relation to adult’s at risk.
• Experience of working in a clinically demanding and changing environment.
• Understanding of the MASH.
• Ability to appraise and analyse complex health information.
• Ability to receive positive challenge and open discussion about practice, cases management and decision making.
• Experience of delivering training
• Experience of working within the MASH
• Participated in service development and implementation of change.
• Knowledge of the network of services with acute, primary and third sector care orientated to meet the needs of adult’s at risk and their families

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)

• Excellence in interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal, which is dignified, compassionate and culturally respectful.
• High level analytical skills to process complex medical information, coupled with strong verbal communication and resilience for cross agency negotiations
• Excellent time management and self-organisation skills to prioritise workload
• Report writing in relation to safeguarding
• Mentoring and supervision skills
• Experience of working as part of a team and ability to work on own initiative
• Able to manage own workload and work within defined clinical parameters with minimal supervision
• Evidence of clinical leadership through providing a positive role model to effect change and aspire to excellence in quality care standards.
• Competent use of IT systems including electronic clinical records

If you are appointed to a post, information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system. The Inter-Authority Transfer (IAT) process is a critical and beneficial component of ESR and following interview your previous NHS employment data, if applicable will be transferred from your current / most recent employer.

You may be required to undertake a DBS. The Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £46.40, Standard £25.40 or Basic £25.40) from your salary when you commence in post (including Internal staff). You will also be required to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £15 cost per year. This is a condition of your employment.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Hester Litten Job title Head of Safeguarding Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01422 224570 Additional information

Saika Said

Interim Designated Nurse - Safeguarding Adults

NHS West Yorkshire - Integrated Care Board

07974 437804

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