Mash Health Practitioner

6 days ago

St Albans, United Kingdom Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen to support our Band 7 Safeguarding Children Nurse Specialists for the Hertfordshire Multi
- Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH).

We are looking to appoint one full-time Practitioner and one part-time Practitioner (18.75 hrs equivalent) at Band 6.

Please note these posts will be for a 6 month fixed term.

**For further information please contact**:
Our nurses work to ensure that health is an active partner in the multi-agency risk assessment, notification and referral of children (0-18 yrs).

You will be required, after initial training, to work autonomously searching for and collating health information from HCT records system (SystemOne) with due regard to patient confidentiality.

You will collate and share information necessary to safeguard and/or promote the welfare of a child onto a pre-formatted template and return within prescribed timelines having an awareness and understanding of issues of consent to share and when they can be overridden. This will also include ensuring information is shared with relevant practitioners in Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust (HCT).
- A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
- You’ll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff
- We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities
- Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision
- We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds

To support the Band 7 nurses for the MASH in ensuring that health is an active partner in the multi-agency risk assessment, notification and referral of children in need of safeguarding (0-18yrs) ensuring that information is also collated, recorded and disseminated in a timely manner to health practitioners. The successful applicant will demonstrate commitment to the Safeguarding Children agenda and be able to work autonomously, using skills of risk assessment and analysis, to interpret and share robust health responses to MASH enquiries.

The MASH has been designed to facilitate information gathering and sharing within a fire-walled environment. The Local Authority hold the statutory responsibility for the management of notifications and referrals, but the decision and planning required to inform the outcome of the notification or referral of children is made by the integrated MASH team. This type of multi-agency cooperation is a statutory duty of all professionals delivering care to children and families. The post holder will be required to collate and record information
from SystemOne records in order to provide the MASH with information to ensure a timely risk assessment of children and young people.

PLEASE REFER TO THE JOB DESCRIPTION FOR FURTHER INFORMTION.

Whilst it is not a legal requirement, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust encourages and supports all staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.

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