Safeguarding Lead – Children and Young Person Service

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £35.5k - £43k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Psychiatry UK

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2012

🏥 Healthcare

👥 B2C

Healthcare • B2C

Psychiatry UK is the UK’s leading provider of digital psychiatry services, offering online assessment, diagnosis and treatment for a range of mental health conditions. Using secure video links, it connects patients with specialist doctors and provides consultations, assessments and ongoing psychological support with an emphasis on accessibility and convenience. Psychiatry UK operates as a fully remote business, works with many self-employed clinicians, and focuses on pathways including ADHD and ASD while promoting diversity, safety and clinical quality.

📋 Description

• Provide specialist safeguarding advice and support to clinicians, operational teams and senior leaders working with children and young people • Support identification, assessment, management and escalation of safeguarding concerns • Advise on child protection, parental responsibility, consent, confidentiality, information sharing, Gillick competence and best-interest decision making • Support complex cases involving abuse, neglect, exploitation, domestic abuse, contextual safeguarding, online harms, self-harm and suicide risk • Complete or support safeguarding referrals to Children’s Social Care and other relevant agencies • Develop and communicate clear safeguarding management plans • Provide timely advice on high-risk or urgent safeguarding concerns • Collaborate with local authority Children’s Services, education providers, NHS organisations, police, safeguarding partnerships and third-sector organisations • Attend child protection conferences, strategy discussions, case conferences and other multi-agency meetings • Support clinicians preparing safeguarding reports and information for external agencies • Provide safeguarding supervision and support reflective practice • Contribute to safeguarding training, guidance and learning resources • Support audits, safeguarding reviews, incident learning and quality-improvement activity • Monitor safeguarding themes, trends and risks and contribute to reports, dashboards and governance updates • Support development and review of safeguarding policies, procedures, pathways and care plans • Respond to internal safeguarding alerts on the RADAR system and complete workflow and investigation requirements • Forward completed RADAR reports in PDF format to the Quality and Safety Clinical Governance Lead for external police or local-authority reporting to CQC • Work with the Head of Safeguarding and IT colleagues to maintain RADAR and other digital processes • Contribute to reviews, recommendations and lessons learned • Embed safeguarding throughout the CYP patient journey from referral to discharge • Promote safeguarding as everyone’s responsibility • Maintain accurate, confidential and contemporaneous safeguarding records • Escalate significant safeguarding or organisational risks to the Head of Safeguarding • Contribute to the PUK Safeguarding Committee and governance meetings • Maintain specialist safeguarding knowledge and undertake continuing professional development • Support clinicians managing concerns during video, telephone and digital consultations • Advise on verification of identity, location, parental responsibility and emergency contacts • Support urgent escalation of immediate safeguarding risks remotely • Identify appropriate local authorities and emergency services across geographical areas • Maintain awareness of online safety, digital harms and emerging risks in remote healthcare • Report to the Head of Safeguarding

🎯 Requirements

• Applicants must reside in the UK • Registered healthcare or social care professional with an appropriate professional body • Safeguarding Children Level 4 training or equivalent specialist safeguarding qualification • Significant experience safeguarding children and young people within healthcare, mental health, social care or a related setting • Strong working knowledge of safeguarding legislation, statutory guidance and child protection processes • Knowledge of the Children Act 1989 and 2004 and Working Together to Safeguard Children • Knowledge of parental responsibility, consent, confidentiality, Gillick competence and information sharing • Knowledge of domestic abuse, exploitation, contextual safeguarding and online harms • Experience of multi-agency safeguarding working • Experience of safeguarding supervision • Experience of complex safeguarding risk assessment and decision-making • Experience delivering safeguarding training or education • Ability to provide clear, proportionate and defensible safeguarding advice • Good report-writing, governance and IT skills • Highly organised, resilient, able to prioritise effectively, work autonomously and collaboratively, make proportionate and defensible decisions, and communicate sensitively • Desirable: experience of remote or digital healthcare • Desirable: recent specialist safeguarding children training • Desirable: experience developing safeguarding training programmes • Desirable: experience of audit, quality improvement or policy development • Desirable: experience preparing safeguarding assurance for CQC, NHS commissioners or other regulatory bodies

🏖️ Benefits

• £1,000 WFH allowance • Health Cash Plan • Well Hub Subscription • Employee Assistance Programme • Annual Volunteering Day • Enhanced Sickness and Family Leave pay • Length of Service Bonus • Work from Home allowance • Pension options • Flexible remote full-time role • Reasonable adjustments and accessible recruitment process