Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) Health Professional Lead

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic lead to provide senior professional leadership for the health contribution to Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

This is a pivotal senior safeguarding role, responsible for leading and coordinating timely, proportionate and high quality health input into multiagency safeguarding decision making. The postholder will work within co located multiagency environments, providing expert clinical oversight, professional challenge and strategic influence, to safeguard children effectively.

The health lead for MASH will also contribute to the wider strategic safeguarding agenda, supporting strong multiagency arrangements and continuous service improvement.

Main duties of the job

This role will provide visible safeguarding leadership for the health contribution within the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hubs (MASH) across Hampshire and Isle of Wight footprint.

You will play a key role in driving improvement and influencing change within complex multiagency system, ensuring high quality, timely health input supports effective, child centred decision making.

Working closely with partners across our four local authorities, including Children's Social Care, Police, Education and Early Help, you will strengthen multiagency collaboration, promote consistent thresholds and model confident professional challenge where require. You will support the development of effective MASH processes, improving information sharing, risk analysis and decision making across the system.

You will provide expert safeguarding advice on complex cases, supporting staff to understand risk, vulnerability and cumulative harm, and ensuring appropriate escalation and outcomes. A key part of the role will be leading quality improvement through audit, performance monitoring and embedding learning from reviews.

You will contribute to workforce development through training and guidance and support the development of policies and practice aligned to local and national safeguarding priorities.

This role requires strong leadership, the ability to influence across organisational boundaries, and a commitment to improving outcomes for children and families.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence