Named Professional for Maternity Safeguarding

3 days ago


Swindon, United Kingdom Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Named Professional for Midwifery Safeguarding will ensure the delivery of a comprehensive strategic and operational vision for the continued development and delivery of statutory and contractual safeguarding arrangements and provision within the Maternity Units, community midwifery services and the wider Trust to ensure that the Maternity service meets its responsibilities to safeguard and protect babies, children, and young people.

They will provide highly expert advice and support to the Midwifery Team about all aspects of safeguarding work with reference to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), mental health, domestic abuse, substance, and alcohol misuse. learning disability and autism.

Working in partnership with other Trust Named Safeguarding Professionals, safeguarding operational leads and other internal and external stakeholders, the post holder will ensure the organization provides an effective service to safeguard babies, young people, and their families within our care.

The post holder will ensure that safeguarding provision continues to develop according to need and is delivered in an evidence-based, child/family focused manner in accordance with the National and Statutory Safeguarding agendas.

Provide highly specialist midwifery safeguarding advice within the Trust, working as an expert to support and facilitate the safeguarding of unborn babies/babies, in collaboration with other named professionals and multi professionals’ teams. Information and advice maybe extremely sensitive or complex in nature.
Receive, analyze, and process information in relation to safeguarding situations resulting in formulation of risk analysis based on available information, and use this information to provide advice and guidance to clinicians regarding appropriate action which is in line with national, local and Trust policies and procedures.

They will take leadership in developing and implementing the Safeguarding training strategy within Maternity and assist with other safeguarding professionals across the Trust in the delivery of training to meet all educational/training requirements, including training of Consultant and Senior Obstetricians and Gynecologists', provide supervision in safeguarding, and lead the development of clinical practice guidelines and safeguarding related audits for Maternity.

The Integrated Safeguarding team at the Trust is a dynamic and forward thinking team, who are passionate about safeguarding our most vulnerable service users. Small in size but big in heart the team works collaboratively together to respond to risk escalation and co-ordinate/formulate comprehensive safety plans. The team also has a wide and interesting remit in terms of delivering and developing safeguarding education, training, audit, policy and practice development, safeguarding partnership working and we look to learn from safeguarding review processes (all ages). The team is supportive, creative and driven to deliver and we look forward to welcoming our newest member into the team.

Provide highly specialist midwifery safeguarding advice within the Trust, working as an expert to support and facilitate the safeguarding of unborn babies/babies, in collaboration with other named professionals and multi professionals’ teams. Information and advice maybe extremely sensitive or complex in

Receive, analyze, and process information in relation to safeguarding situations resulting in formulation of risk analysis based on available information, and use this information to provide advice and guidance to clinicians regarding appropriate action which is in line with national, local and Trust policies and procedures.

Work to introduce systems and processes that will empower Health Professionals to act independently and autonomously to protect children.

Accountable to The Trust for the delivery of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults’ agenda within Maternity

In collaboration with other safeguarding professionals lead the delivery of a comprehensive vision for the continued development of safeguarding arrangements and provision within the

Work closely and collaboratively with the Band 7 Maternity Safeguarding Professional on all aspects of maternity safeguarding work, covering priority elements of the role in their absence

Ensure that effective, timely communication both internally and externally, compliments multidisciplinary/Interagency working.

Ensure that there is appropriate management of risk notifications and that pre-birth assessment and planning in place to safeguard children and vulnerable people with effective communication of recommendations of aftercare arrangements for the newborn baby and family support. Plans maybe complex in

With colleagues maintain and keep up to date Safeguarding Partnership quality assurance dashboards and internal databases/folders that allow for scrutiny of practice and the collation of practice themes and trends from which to inform the Partnership and Trust Execu



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