Child Death Review & Safeguarding Children Training AdministratorNHS

Job summary

This role provides an opportunity to develop your business support and administration skills within children's safeguarding team, whilst working within a supportive friendly and caring team. You will work closely with the safeguarding children's team; patient safety team and child death clinical leads in relation to the child death review process. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the child death review processes within the Trust and provide business support for the safeguarding children governance arrangements.

This vacancy is advertised as a time-limited opportunity is expected to be undertaken on a secondment basis.

Before applying, employees must discuss the opportunity with their current line manager to confirm whether they may be released from their substantive role if successful. Release to undertake a secondment is not an automatic entitlement and must be agreed by all relevant parties: the employee, their current line manager, and the recruiting line manager.

Main duties of the job

The role has two core elements:-

Providing administrative support for the child death review (CDR) process at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (UHSx). This includes responsibility for coordinating the CDR process, scheduling CDR meetings adhering to statutory timeframes, preparing the agenda, circulating papers and minute taking of meetings involving child health and safeguarding discussions (which can be of a highly complex, sensitive and emotional nature), recording and maintaining activity data, supporting the inputting data onto the electronic child death (eCDOP) System and providing a central communication point for child death review process at UHSx.Providing business support for the children's safeguarding governance arrangements. This will include coordinating training and inputting of data onto the electronic training platform (Iris), administering surveys, analysing data, formatting documents, presentations and reports; providing communications support (eg. drafting and formatting newsletters and maintaining safeguarding content on UHSx internal and external facing web pages), data input, maintaining data collection programme databases.

Job description

Please note: This role does not meet the minimum criteria for visa sponsorship under the current UK immigration rules, which set specific salary and skill thresholds. As such, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this post. Applicants will therefore need to already have the right to work in the UK to be considered. We include this information at the outset to provide clarity and avoid unnecessary inconvenience for applicants.

If you do not meet the sponsorship requirements, and you are applying using a Graduate visa as your right to work, you must have a minimum of 18 months remaining on your visa at time of application.

The successful candidate will support the Child Death Review processes across the Trust as a whole and Safeguarding Children Governance arrangements. You will work closely with the Trusts Child Death Review Lead doctors and assist members of the Joint Agency Response (JAR) in accessing information and records held Within the Trust. They will hold responsibility for co-ordinating and facilitating the safeguarding children governance arrangements and provide high level administrative support in this area. For more detail about the main duties of this role, please see the job description below.

About us

Working for our organisation

At UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us always deliver Excellent Care Everywhere, as shown in our Outstanding for Caring CQC rating. Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of staff networks to help break down barriers, and can offer abuddy to help new members settle in. We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 3) and a Veteran Aware Trust.

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