# MASH Named Health Professional for Safeguarding Children > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/mash-named-health-professional-for-safeguarding-children/2c91ac3f-e817-4543-8dce-fbd1f089b8df - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/mash-named-health-professional-for-safeguarding-children/2c91ac3f-e817-4543-8dce-fbd1f089b8df.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust - **Location:** Wayside House - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum - **Contract type:** Secondment: 7 months - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-01T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-18T14:21:46.883Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Warwickshire/Coventry/Coventry_Warwickshire_Partnership_NHS_Trust/Registered_Professional/Registered_Professional-v8234456 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8234456?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Able to travel for work purposes and have access to an independent means of transport. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered Professional - Educated to degree level/Professional Health Registration or experience in safeguarding /child protection ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Excellent knowledge/skills in safeguarding children, young people/Evidence of continued professional development in safeguarding children to level 3 (Intercollegiate Guidance 2019) - Understanding of the multiagency roles involved with children & families / Think Family/wider healthcare environment and multidisciplinary roles - Sound knowledge of local and national legislation and policy, e.g., Children Act 1989, GDPR, Working Together to Safeguarding Children (2023) Care Act 2014, Domestic Abuse Act 2021 - Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to partners from a broad range of agencies, disciplines, and services. - Ability to analyse very complex issues where the material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources. - Able to challenge decisions and escalate in an articulate rational manner - Experience/skills in identifying and responding to Children who have been the victims of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) ## Documents - [flexible working policy (pdf, 347.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1155) - [application guidance notes (pdf, 157.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1157) - [terms and conditions nhs jobs (pdf, 19.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1158) - [equality and diversity leaflets (pdf, 838.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1159) - [the prince's trust help 16-30 year olds into work (pdf, 192.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2706) - [secondment for multi-agency safeguarding hub (mash) (pdf, 400.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10544726) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.