Safeguarding Liaison and Child Mortality Team Leader

6 months ago


Headington, United Kingdom Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

To provide an effective comprehensive range of administration support to the safeguarding liaison and child mortality team, being sensitive and maintaining a professional response to the challenging work required. This will require the use of excellent interpersonal and communication skills in dealing with patients, relatives, work colleagues and external organisations.

The post holder will have key responsibility to organise and support safeguarding liaison and child mortality activity; maintain activity data logs, support the child death process including minute taking and report writing and provide a central communication point for the Trust’s safeguarding and child mortality teams.

To provide high-quality, comprehensive, and professional administrative support to the safeguarding and child mortality teams.

To support the maintenance of a consistent level of liaison between the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the community which will include Social Care, Primary Care. Support Services, Child Health, CDOP and the MASH. This will require the post holder to work autonomously and as part of a team.

To efficiently complete the assigned tasks and deal with all information in a sensitive, confidential manner.

To assist in implementing any new or further systems to provide an equitable service across Oxfordshire and out of area counties where required.

To undertake audit and projects related to safeguarding and child mortality.

Time management skills with the ability to work under pressure to achieve objectives and deliver within tight deadlines.

Have an ability to always operate at a high level of tact and diplomacy.

Experience of supporting and supervising staff and working within a team to meet targets and deliver results.

See full attached Job Description

You will be joining a friendly team who are proud to work at OUH.

If you are looking for a rewarding job and enjoy working with a committed team, then we would encourage you to apply.
- To develop and maintain strong, professional working relationships with other professionals to ensure delivery of a robust service and develop joint working.
- To display excellent verbal and written communication skills, using understanding and compassion when communicating complex or distressing information to colleagues at all levels across the Trust and with external professionals.
- To communicate information on a range of topics.
- Supporting staff and negotiating and influencing skills to help empower staff to take the necessary action to safeguard children and their families.
- Work with others towards achieving shared values and learning from mistakes. Being open to the opinion of others, and able to give and receive constructive feedback to help build team cohesion and development.
- Respond constructively to complex queries on a range of topics.
- Analyse information and data for reports and linking themes to identify risk.
- Demonstrate knowledge and expertise of safeguarding and an overview of the child mortality process.
- Educated to degree level or acquired equivalent expertise through training and experience.
- Experience of providing a high level of administrative to support to the team and senior management.
- Accurate typing skills with an advanced level of IT skills, including extensive experience of using Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Time management skills with the ability to work under pressure to achieve objectives and deliver within tight deadlines.
- Have an ability to always operate at a high level of tact and diplomacy.
- Experience of supporting and supervising staff and working within a team to meet targets and deliver results.
- View change as an opportunity.
- Make the best use of time and available resources to achieve goals for service delivery.
- Take responsibility for own actions and self-development to prove effective team leadership.
- Cope with uncertainty. Assessing the situation and minimising risk.
- Plan and organise daily workload utilising individual and team skills to help achieve the best outcome. Manage the objectives of the service as required whilst negotiating challenging or conflicting commitments.

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