Children's Safeguarding Advisor

The Safeguarding Advisor is an experienced specialist practitioner with in-depth knowledge of child protection and advanced analytical skills for safeguarding children acquired through specialist courses and experiential learning from interagency work. To advise and support staff in complex cases and to work closely with the Trust Named Safeguarding Children Professionals to ensure that appropriate assessment of risks are undertaken in order to improve outcomes for vulnerable/child protection children/families. The post holder will work as part of a dynamic multi-agency team assessing notifications and referrals regarding children aged 0-18 that are received by Multi- Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH). The MASH process includes searching for and collating health information from a range of NHS providers. The post hold will work across acute and community sites as well as within the Local Authority as part of the MASH. The post holder will work with the Safeguarding team to deliver
safeguarding training in line with Intercollegiate Guidance (2014) The post holder will work with the Safeguarding team to deliver safeguarding supervision in one to one, group and reflective learning forums. The post holder will work as part of a dynamic multi-agency integrated team assessing notifications and referrals regarding children aged 0-18 that are received by acute hospital services. The post holder will have line management responsibility for safeguarding administrator The Named Nurse for Safeguarding will undertake monthly clinical supervision with the post holder.