Safeguarding Health Practitioner, Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH

at  Swindon Borough Council

Job Purpose To work as part of the safeguarding team MASH, to be a source of advice and expertise on all safeguarding children matters to all childrens community health staff. To demonstrate a high level of expertise in relation to the safeguarding of children and promote the wellbeing of children and respond in line with Working Together (2018) in order to put the child at the centre of safeguarding. To work to support practitioners to deliver a service which improves outcomes for vulnerable children and families, including those involved in domestic abuse and court procedures as required. To promote the use of timely, robust and consistent risk assessment of information gathered and shared across the agencies involved which will enable the proportionate, necessary and lawful disclosure of information at the earliest opportunity.
To contribute to safeguarding decision making. Key Accountabilities Develop and maintain relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders. Specifically health professionals from a wide range of services and disciplines Role model, promoting good practice and effective communication between all agencies, sharing proportionate information in accordance with GDPR (2018) To provide professional challenge as necessary to ensure the child is kept the focus of any safeguarding work and to support the use of the escalation process as required Working with the safeguarding team to ensure that new national and local guidance, policies and procedures are disseminated Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub To organise and collate the information gathering exercise linked to referrals to ensure a full and rich source of information to inform the decision making process To provide a summary and recommendation for the next course of action within the joint decision making forum using the agreed processes and procedures To disseminate the MASH outcomes for specific children to all relevant health practitioners including the referrer Work collaboratively with the workforce leads in health services to ensure that early intervention and prevention are prioritised rather than a focus on referral escalatio

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