Senior Child Death Overview Panel and Safeguarding Administrator

This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in supporting the CDOP and safeguarding team and provide a highly efficient specialist Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP) and safeguarding business, secretarial and administrative support to a wide range of meetings and functions across the CDOP team, including highly sensitive and confidential information.

Maintain an oversight of the CDOP and safeguarding team members diaries, work plans etc and work in partnership to coordinate and plan a variety of activities whilst also completing own work and coordination of the work of others.

Support the delivery of statutory safeguarding and child death review functions involving highly sensitive and confidential information., Work with NHS HIOW's Safeguarding Children Team to managing the effective running of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP) and the delivery of excellent outcomes in reducing the number of child deaths across NHS HIOW and the 4 Local Authorities.

Provide assistance and advice to a wide variety of stakeholders as required, signposting to the Designated Professionals if necessary. To ensure that work is completed in line with timescales and legal requirements and that issues and concerns are escalated when required in an appropriate and timely manner.

Be the first point of contact with multi-agency partners. Deal with telephone calls and email enquiries in an efficient, empathetic an sensitive manner. Using own initiative and knowledge of safeguarding to process and signpost these, finding resolutions where applicable and escalating when appropriate.

We offer excellent employment opportunities to new and existing staff. We aim to be a model employer by embedding best HR practice and to support new ways of working.

We pride ourselves on offering good working conditions, job security, lifelong learning, fair pay and benefits, staff involvement and a balance between work and personal life.

We enjoy a forward thinking and innovative culture and our vision is to have healthy people, living healthy lives in healthy communities. We understand the only way to deliver this is to have the right people with the right skills.

Here is a summary of some of the benefits and services which are on offer to staff:

27 days paid minimum holiday and bank holiday entitlement

NHS pension scheme

Sick pay policy

Occupational health services including staff counselling services

Flexible working and family friendly policies

Flexible retirement and retirement vouchers

Health Service Discounts - offers for stores, travel, equipment etc.

Successful candidates will be subject to a six-month probationary period.