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Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to join our well established Safeguarding Team.  

Predominately providing safeguarding children advice, supervision, and training to HHFT staff; and support the Named professionals in ensuring the Trust meets its responsibilities to safeguard children.  The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop learning to support the adult team in delivering support across the Trust.

There will also be the chance to support Hampshire Hospital’s Foundation Trust’s Child Sexual Abuse Service.  Working with children and families to provide support and signposting.

Main duties of the job

• Working alongside the Specialist Practitioner and Specialist Midwife Safeguarding Children in providing a robust Health Liaison process is in place within the Trust
• To ensure appropriate and proportionate information is shared with health partners where it is identified that a child may be at risk of harm
• To promote the sharing of information with agency partners as defined in Working Together 2023 is timely, appropriate and proportionate
• To provide guidance to staff with regard safeguarding children practices and processes
• Where required support the clinical care for children who have been referred to the child sexual abuse service
• To provide support for families and carers who attend the clinic for initial appointments or follow-up
• Provide ongoing support to families wishing to seek emotionally and psychological support by signposting to local and national support services
• Developing specific expertise in children’s health and development, child maltreatment and local arrangements for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
• Contributing to the safeguarding children training strategy, facilitating, and delivering the safeguarding children training within the Trust.
• Support the Named Nurse and team in reporting on serious incidents including serious case reviews and responding to complaints

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.