Job summary
- Main area
- Safeguarding
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday Friday.)
- Job ref
- 199-N-7515054-RB-HM
- Employer
- Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Croydon University Hospital
- Town
- Thornton Heath, Croydon
- Salary
- £53,751 - £60,651 per annum, pro rata incl HCAS (Outer)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/11/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 25/11/2025
Employer heading
Paediatric Liaison Public Health Practitioner/ Safeguarding Advisor
Band 7
Croydon is a busy, exciting and diverse place to work. The borough has one of the youngest populations in London and continues to grow.
Croydon Health Services cares for local people at Croydon University Hospital, Purley Memorial Hospital and in clinics and people’s homes all across the borough.
We are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where everyone of our 3600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset and so through Listening into Action – our way of engaging staff - we empower everyone at any level to initiate and bring about real improvements in our care.
Join us and be a part of the team that is making Croydon proud. #choosecroydon
Job overview
Croydon Health Service (CHS) NHS Trust are looking for an enthusiastic practitioner to join the safeguarding team as paediatric liaison public health practitioner/ safeguarding advisor.
CHS has a think family approach to safeguarding children, within our integrated safeguarding team (maternity, children, adults, and children looked after (CHSIST)). We are seeking a specialist nurse practitioner to provide support to children and families at the interface of acute and community care working 30 hours a week.
The paediatric liaison service is an essential post for Croydon health service to support responsibly and safely. The post holder will be based in the hospital working closely with health and social care agencies, acute and community sectors ensure infants. children and young people and families experience is seamless transition after attendance to Croydon University hospital (acute setting).
The post includes delivery training and offering supervision to wide range of health practitioners. The post holder will also collaborate closely with the team of safeguarding advisors to support the team with their statutory responsibilities.
Interview Date: 25th November 2025
Main duties of the job
Develop standards and protocols for liaison and information sharing so that this function is carried out safely and consistently by staff in emergency department while ensuring good record keeping standards in the emergency department.
Identify and implement consultation with colleagues any systems which may improve the hospital contribution to safeguarding children.
Participate in multi-agency safeguarding meetings both within the hospital, pan health and inter agency.
To continue to develop paediatric liaison within the Paediatric and Adult Emergency Department (16 years old to 18 years old go into adult emergency department) as a key team member working closely with hospital departments, community, local authority and other health and multi-agency service.
Forge close working links with adult emergency department ensuring systems are in place for recognition and referral/liaison where parents or carers are seen with features which indicate they could pose a risk to children in their care.
Working for our organisation
Croydon Health Services provides integrated NHS services to care for people at home, in schools, and health clinics across the borough as well as at Croydon University Hospital and Purley War Memorial Hospital.
CUH provides more than one hundred specialist services and is home to the borough’s only Emergency Department and 24/7 maternity services, including a labour ward, midwifery-led birth centre and the Crocus home birthing team.
Purley War Memorial Hospital (PWMH) in the south of the borough offers outpatient care, including diagnostic services, physiotherapy and ophthalmology services run by Moorfields Eye Hospital, alongside an onsite GP surgery.
Our experienced staff take care of people of all ages across the borough of Croydon. We are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where everyone of our 3600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Roles and Responsibilities
Be a resource and provide experts advice on child protection and health promotion for practitioners and clinicians.
· Identify practices and learning needs for the front-line staff and provide learning programme to address these. Establish areas of audit arising from emergency attendance to promote learning and improve childcare and accident prevention ensuring the messages ae shared with community colleagues and other agencies.
· Provide Safeguarding supervision.
· Provide Safeguarding training.
Quality and Performance
1. Ensure timely and accurate information analysis and reporting to Named Professional Safeguarding Children on agreed areas of work.
2. Develop policies and procedures in own work function with an impact on the wider organisation, as required.
3. The post holder is expected to contribute to the process of conducting Serious Case Reviews and Internal Management Reviews for the Trust with the support of the named nurses.
4. To support the Named Professionals in contributing to the CHSIST governance processes in relation to safeguarding children.
5. To attend weekly Trust Safeguarding MDT meetings.
6. To be the lead safeguarding professional within specified services within CHS as agreed with the Named Professionals.
7. To provide practitioners with supportive advice for safeguarding concerns
Communication and Relationship Skills
Establish and maintain clear systems of communication with the Named Nurses for Safeguarding Children, MASH (Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub) public health nurses, Acute services, line managers within CHSIST.
· Effectively communicate sensitive and confidential information in line with current legislation and Trust policy/guidelines.
· Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills.
· Provide advice and guidance to practitioners and partner agencies on sensitive issues in respect of adult safeguarding/protection.
· Ability to manage challenging situations and behaviours.
· Establish and maintain clear systems of communication with Named Nurses/professionals for Safeguarding and service line managers, in order that staff are adequately.
· Supported to ensure that the organisation meets its statutory obligations to safeguard and protect children at risk.
· Storage of records in line with the Data Protection Act, the Caldicott Guardianship, and professional standards.
· Liaise with all external agencies, ensuring effective communication across the acute / community interface.
Person specification
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of MCA, safeguarding children legislation and children's act's and working together
- Knowledge of safeguarding risk
- Sound understanding of safeguarding governance
Desirable criteria
- Worked previously in safeguarding or covered a liaison health visitor role before
Experience
Essential criteria
- Safeguarding post qualification experience ( what elements of safeguarding have been covered in their present role)
Desirable criteria
- Completed a module in safeguarding at post graduate level
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse / health visitor/School nurse or equivalent
- Degree qualification or equivalent
- Relevant post registration qualification
Desirable criteria
- previous experience covering liaison post
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Susan hemming-Clark
- Job title
- Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 274 6328
- Additional information
You can also contact the safeguarding children team on 0208 401 3888 ext two.
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