MASH Named Health Professional for Safeguarding Children

Job overview

Multi-Agency: Safeguarding Hub (MASH) Named Health Professional for Safeguarding Children - Band 7 Based with MASH Team at Friargate house, Coventry An exciting opportunity for a Multi-agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) health practitioner in Coventry has arisen. The post holder will work in a dynamic team and hold a senior position with a key role in the day-to-day running of the MASH. The applicant needs experience collating information from a wide range of systems including mental health, learning disabilities, autism, and universal services As a key clinician in the MASH, you will be responsible for analysing and interpreting health information, about the risk of significant harm to children and families. You will contribute to multi-agency decision-making to safeguard and protect children. You will have expertise in working with child safeguarding issues and experience in working with multiagency and multidisciplinary colleagues, to inform decisions.

This postholder will need to have a good knowledge of reflective practice and be able to demonstrate this to support themselves and others

Main duties of the job

The main duties are to manage and analyse highly complex information to appropriately inform strategy meetings and risk assessments within the MASH. This will involve you ensuring that information is collated, recorded, and disseminated promptly and participating in MASH management meetings to ensure continued health contribution to the development of the MASH function. To highlight concerns regarding practice to the appropriate Lead Named Professional within the provider organisation. To maintain high standards of record keeping and documentation on cases where information has been shared.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the main description of The MASH Safeguarding Hub Named Health Professional for Safeguarding Children responsibilities please read the job description

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.