Job summary
- Main area
- Head of Safeguarding
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-CS282-A
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- West Berkshire Civic Centre, Head of Safeguarding
- Town
- Newbury
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 27/08/2025
Employer heading
Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) Health Professional
Band 6
Job overview
Interview will be held on 27th August 2025
We are offering an exciting opportunity to work in the West of Berkshire Multi-agency Safeguarding Hubs (MASH) as a health practitioner. You will play a vital role working within the multi-agency team helping to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
We welcome applications to work full time, part time or job share arrangements. To be a successful applicant you will hold a specialist community public health nurse qualification or equivalent professional qualification. You will be responsible for gathering, interpreting and sharing relevant health information as part of the MASH enquires, working collaboratively with partners across various agencies. You will interpret and share information necessary to safeguard and promote the welfare of a child.
Main duties of the job
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You will be part of a team co-located within the local authority, with some flexibility for remote working. You will be working alongside a multi-agency team including police officers. Social workers and others.
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You will be required to develop and maintain professional relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders including health professionals from a wide range of services and disciplines.
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The MASH process includes searching for and collating health information from a range of NHS sources both internal and external. With due regard to patient confidentiality, the MASH health professional will interpret and share the information that is necessary to safeguard and/or promote the welfare of a child. This may involve disclosing relevant information on the parents or carers, ensuring the is processed fairly and proportionately.
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You will participate in the MASH multi-agency risk assessment to inform the case management, advising where necessary and challenging decisions when appropriate.
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You will disseminate and communicate decisions and appropriate health information to relevant health professionals including the Named Nurse and/or Doctor and for sharing best practice
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Evidence of ineffective safeguarding arrangements within or outside of the MASH will be immediately reported to the MASH manager and or the Safeguarding Children’s managers for possible escalation.
Working for our organisation
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance
- 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
- Free parking across Trust sites
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
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Registered nurse or midwife
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Safeguarding Experience
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Multi agency working
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Health systems knowledge
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Excellent communication skills
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Effective decision making
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It literacy skills
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Able to work as part of a team
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Fiona Morris on T: 01189044604 M: 07979502929 or email [email protected] who’ll be delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Experience working in the community
- Registered Nurse
- Registered Community and public Health Nurse ( Health Visitor, School Nurse), Registered Midwife.
- Registered Mental Health Nurse.
Desirable criteria
- Educated to degree level.
Continuous Professional Development
Essential criteria
- Evidence of continued professional development in safeguarding children.
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrated experience of co-working in complex and challenging environment.
- Experience of managing risks and reporting and escalating concerns.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Understanding the wider healthcare environment.
- Good understanding of IT and community recording systems
- Sound knowledge of mulit-agency working
- Sound knowledge of legislation and policy, e.g Children Act 1989, 2004, Data protection, and NHS Confidentiality Guidance.
- Experience of assessing risk and need for children
Additional Requirements: Communication Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to partners from abroad range agencies, disciplines and services.
Additional Requirements: Analytical Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- Numerate and able to understand complex data combined with good analytical skills.
- Able to contribute the health perspective to multi agency meetings.
- Able to understand decisions and articulate rationale effectively.
Additional Requirements: Planning skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term time frames and adjust plans accordingly.
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
Additional Requirements: Autonomy
Essential criteria
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Fiona Morris
- Job title
- Named Nurse Child Protection
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07979502929
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