Job summaryAn exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Health Visitor or School Nurse to join the Multi Agency Child Protection and Assessment Team. The post holder will be key in offering a health perspective as part of the child protection process. This team will include a mix of social workers, health practitioners, police and education.
Main duties of the job- To be a health expert in safeguarding and child protection.
- To interpret health information accurately to support the safeguarding process and offer relevant advice and guidance to the wider multi agency team.
- To work in collaboration with the multi agency team.
- To be a conduit between children's social care and the wider health network to ensure timely and relevant information is shared as part of the child protection process.
- To be the lead professional where required.
- To deputise when required in the team managers absence and delegate appropriately to junior staff.
- To be responsible for organising and prioritising own workload in the day to day allocation of work.
- To offer clinical health advice to support decision making within the child protection process and support the lead for health within the team.
- To have organisational, local and national knowledge surrounding safeguarding and child protection to inform decision making.
- To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
- To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting.
- To employ professional curiosity in your day-to-day role and act upon any findings appropriately.
- To be able to analyse and interpret health information to inform multiagency risk assessments and safety plans.
About usNELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex.
We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.
Our Values 2025 - 2030Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT. They are:
- We are kind.
- We are respectful.
- We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
Starting with NELFTNELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Goodmayes, Essex.
Probationary PeriodThis post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
High-Cost Area SupplementThis post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,870 and a maximum payment of £6,137) pro rata for part time staff.
Certificates of SponsorshipAlthough we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based systemUse of AIApplications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Person SpecificationQualificationsEssentialDesirableExperienceEssentialDesirableDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
