Livewell Southwest Safeguarding Children Team
Named Nurse & Named Doctor for Child Protection
The Named Nurse and Named Doctor are responsible for monitoring and developing effective professional working practice on all matters relating to Safeguarding Children and Child Protection issues and providing expert professional advice and support to all staff within the organisation including Livewell Southwest Board and identified partner agencies as described in “Working Together to Safeguard Children” (2023) and within the generic framework, as described in “Safeguarding Children and Young People: Roles and Competencies for Health Care Staff- Intercollegiate Document” RCPCH (2019).
The Named Nurse and Named Doctor also have a key role in promoting good professional practice and effective safeguarding children practice within the organisation in compliance with safeguarding children primary legislation and underpinned in Government strategy and national, regional and local guidance, procedures and standards.
The Named Nurse and Named Doctor provide advice and expertise for all staff and ensure safeguarding training is in place and work closely with Livewell Southwest’s Executive Lead for safeguarding, designated health professionals and other statutory safeguarding partners.
Safeguarding Children Team Administrative Lead
The role of the Safeguarding Children Secretary is a highly specialised role within Livewell Southwest and encompasses ensuring the delivery of an effective, comprehensive and competent administration service which is child focussed and promotes good standards of service and effective interagency and partnership working relationships.
They work as part of the wider Safeguarding Children team, managing and coordinating secretarial workload, prioritising tasks and communicating capacity issues as and when they arise.
They lead administration, audit and service projects, providing regular update reports and identifying risks to successful completion. The role involves the responsibility for managing daily administrative support in the wider Safeguarding Children Team ensuring business priorities are met for example: maintaining health records, timely processing of safeguarding information received by the team, co-ordinating the response for legal requests for Court Child Care proceedings and information sharing requests, minute taking, data inputting.
Safeguarding Advisor Health Hub Team in the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)
The Safeguarding Advisors provide appropriate health information and inform multi-agency decision making within MASH.
They also provide support, advice and act as a source of specialist health knowledge in relation to early intervention, child protection and safeguarding children to ensure there are effective outcomes for Children.
They develop partnership working, aid communication and ensure effective and timely outcomes for children when referrals are received by the MASH.
Safeguarding Children Secretary
The Safeguarding Children Secretary provide a comprehensive administration service for the Health Team: MASH and the wider Safeguarding Children Team when required co-ordinating their own workload, prioritising tasks and communicating capacity issues as and when they arise.
The Safeguarding Children Secretary is also responsible for all administrative tasks associated with the service, including, but not limited to, accurate record keeping, minute taking, reviewing health care records and identifying appropriate key points with the support from the health advisors.
