PCN Safeguarding Co-ordinator

The breadth of the role is set out below. Your weekly time will be split proportionally across the Practices. The expectation is that the safeguarding co-ordinator will concentrate on ensuring that Practices have a consistent, safe and effective approach to safeguarding. Ensuring Practices are safeguarding CQC compliant. Supporting the running of effective practice safeguarding MDTs, of which key components include the gathering of intelligence prior to meetings, taking minutes of decisions made at the meetings and ensuring that agreed actions are taken. Another important area is the provision of safeguarding reports to key partners, for example child services. The safeguarding co-ordinator can support Practices in a number of ways, by streamlining the process, thereby reducing the input needed from clinicians., Work very closely with each Practices safeguarding lead to ensure each practice has robust and effective safeguarding procedures that ensures all patients at risk are kept as safe as possible

Ensure safeguarding policies and procedures are up to date and consistent with agreed best practice

Maintain staff safeguarding training records and organise appropriate role-based training for members of staff, leading the training where appropriate.

Manage processing of safeguarding tasks and processing of safeguarding correspondence onto patient records. Support the preparation of timely, relevant and proportionate safeguarding reports.

Support the practices in achieving CQC compliance with respect to the safeguarding of staff and patients.

Organising and leading regular practice safeguarding meetings. Ensure that the practices have a vulnerable patient register which is kept up to date.76. Help the practices foster effective relationships with local safeguarding partners. Ensure the timely sharing of relevant information, when safeguarding concerns arise in respect of both children and adults.

Support the practices in responding to statutory requests for information required by the local authority to carry out local child or adult safeguarding case reviews and assist the practices with section 42 enquiries. Disseminate learning and support the implementation of review recommendations.

Promote the understanding of local safeguarding referral pathways.