Safeguarding Children Advisor -12months fixed term

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.
Daily screening emergency department attendances, collaborating with internal / external professionals and attending the weekly multi-disciplinary meeting associated with emergency department attendances.
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.
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 post hold will work across acute and community sites as well as other multiagency professionals working to safeguard children.
The post holder will work with the Safeguarding team to deliver safeguarding training.
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 have either supervision or line management responsibility for a Safeguarding Coordinator
The Named Nurse for Safeguarding will undertake line management and monthly clinical supervision with the post holder.
This is a 12months fixed term contract., + Work with the Named Professionals in providing and facilitating Child Protection/Safeguarding training and education for staff working in the Trust. Ensuring a multi-disciplinary approach.
+ In collaboration with Workforce and Development Team identify, implement and facilitate Safeguarding and Think Family training.
+ Ensure robust safeguarding supervision is implemented within Trust Services in accordance with the Trust safeguarding supervision policy.
+ Provide safeguarding supervision, consultation, professional advice and guidance to staff and to sensitively guide and support staff working with issues related to vulnerable families and child protection.
· Ensure that safeguarding supervision is delivered to key professionals working with children.
· Work in partnership with Trust Team managers, ensuring they are aware of issues within clinical practice relevant to safeguarding vulnerable families which impact upon workloads, highlighting areas of clinical risk and working in partnership to ensure clinical governance and performance management issues are addressed.
· Facilitate the participation of staff in safeguarding assessments using the respective local authority Interagency Referral (IAR) as required; ensuring documentation is in line with the NMC Professional Code of Practice.
· Attend bi-weekly Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARAC) and ensure communication of actions / risk to practitioners.

Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream, · Advanced practitioner that is expected to demonstrate best practice in terms of clinical responsibilities.
· Highlight challenges and document poor practice.
+ Provide advice and support on all matters relating to Child Protection and vulnerable families while implementing evidence-based practice.
+ Disseminate information to promote good practice.
+ Work in close collaboration with Named Professionals to provide advice and support to staff working in the Trust.
+ Engage fully in the delivery of safeguarding training.
+ Work with the Named Professionals in providing and facilitating Child Protection/Safeguarding training and education for staff working in the Trust. Ensuring a multi-disciplinary approach.
+ In collaboration with Workforce and Development Team identify, implement and facilitate Safeguarding and Think Family training.
+ Ensure robust safeguarding supervision is implemented within Trust Services in accordance with the Trust safeguarding supervision policy.
+ Provide safeguarding supervision, consultation, professional advice and guidance to staff and to sensitively guide and support staff working with issues related to vulnerable families and child protection.
· Ensure that safeguarding supervision is delivered to key professionals working with children.
· Ensure that the child protection supervision contract is discussed and signed by the supervisor and practitioner.
· To facilitate regular experiential learning forums to share good practice and learn lessons from research around vulnerable families and child protection issues.
· Work in partnership with Trust Team managers, ensuring they are aware of issues within clinical practice relevant to safeguarding vulnerable families which impact upon workloads, highlighting areas of clinical risk and working in partnership to ensure clinical governance and performance management issues are addressed.
· Facilitate the participation of staff in safeguarding assessments using the respective local authority Interagency Referral (IAR) as required; ensuring documentation is in line with the NMC Professional Code of Practice.
· Attend bi-weekly Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARAC) and ensure communication of actions / risk to practitioners.
+ Be part of a collocated multi-agency team including police officers. Social workers and others within the MASH.
+ Maintain constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders and specifically health professionals from a wide range of services and disciplines.
+ Identify and collate the relevant health information to add to the multi-agency risk assessment.
+ Record, Interpret and present health information and issues that can impact on the risk or needs assessment of child/children from a range of health perspectives. This may involve disclosing relevant information on the parents or carers in ensuring the information is processed fairly and proportionately.
+ Develop and implement data collection systems that will provide accurate and timely data safely and effectively with due regards to the UN convention for the rights of children, The Children Act 1989 and 2004 and the Human Rights Act, and also within the bounds of patient confidentiality and the Data Protection Act.
+ Explain clearly, and with sound rationale, highly complex safeguarding children information, to a wide range of professionals.
+ Disseminate and communicate decisions and appropriate health information to relevant health professionals including the Named Professionals where appropriate and for sharing best practice
+ Identify service gaps and issues relating to effective clinical pathways and /or cross boundary arrangements. Escalate evidence of ineffective safeguarding arrangements within the Trust.
+ Immediately report to the Named Professionals when issues require escalation or where the case is of likely to become subject to press or public interest.
+ Record appropriate information about health outcomes
The post holder is expected to contribute to and participate in the process of conducting the Trust Internal Management Reviews within Child Safeguarding Practice Review processes.
+ Identify the need for policy change or development and to participate in the formulation of strategies in line with national policies in coordination with the Named Professionals and relevant stakeholders.
· Represent the Trust at meetings as appropriate.
· Attend weekly safeguarding meetings on the wards as required. Provide professional expertise in the meetings to support a multi-agency approach to meeting the complex health needs of vulnerable young people with safeguarding concerns who attend the department.
· In collaboration with the named professionals to identify, implement and assist in the education and training of programmes within the Trust.
· Ensure up to date current, local and information and research is disseminated.
· Scope local needs of vulnerable families and work in collaboration with frontline staff and the Safeguarding team to develop and implement strategies for supporting vulnerable families.
· In collaboration with the Clinical Governance Department, undertake child protection quality and audit monitoring.
· Highlight, challenge and document poor practice. This will involve:
Ø The adoption of all evidence based approach to supervision and professional development.
Ø Facilitating inter-agency child safeguarding, contextual safeguarding and Think Family training, selecting and supporting a range of learning opportunities for staff and students relevant to their level of practice and expertise.
Ø Develop quality assurance and audit programmes to monitor and maintain quality of supervision in line with the clinical governance principles.
Ø Participating in agreed research project and innovations in Health Service delivery.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.