Job Introduction
As a Health Liaison Officer you’ll be working in partnership with Essex Social Care as part of the wider Essex Safeguarding Team. Your base will be Essex House in Colchester, Essex.
This role is focused on and responsible for leading the interface between Children`s Social Care and the Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service (ECFWS) by working collaboratively across the children`s system in Essex to ensure that family intervention is proportionate to their need.
The post holder will be responsible for leading and managing liaison between the Children and Families Hub and the ECFWS. They will demonstrate and model best practice within a multiagency; building capacity and skills within the ECFWS.
Main Responsibility
Autonomously collaborate with Advisors and Social Workers within the Children and Families Hub as well as practitioners within the Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service (ECFWS) to ensure effective, timely and appropriate triage to inform the lowest level of safe intervention.
Accountable for providing support and influence to practitioners within ECFWS to build on understanding of threshold in line with the Essex Effective Support document.
Develop audit tools that will enable analysis of all ECFWS Requests for Support, give feedback to practitioners on audited practice, develop a full board report that enables targeting of resources and the development of a strategy to improve conversion rates.
Present finding and recommendations at safeguarding and peer review meeting
Develop a programme to share learning of collaborative learning to improve practice across Essex.
Responsible for assisting practitioners to develop a deep and consistent understanding of thresholds at Levels 2-3 and when to implement these.
The Ideal Candidate
You will be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, have a degree in relevant subject area or equivalent experience. You will have a keen interest and experience in Safeguarding Children or substantial relevant experience.
You will have experience in mentorship.
You may have a teaching and assessing qualification.
We have built organisation-wide committees in many specialist fields. You’ll have the option to join your clinical specialism, networking with professionals from across the country. We get together regularly, auditing and sharing standard methodology for innovation and service re-design. You’ll be a part of the pool of subject matter experts bringing together clinical and operational leads. You will be a part of quality improvements, research and development activity. Here we recognise and celebrate clinical excellence and dedication.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
Package Description
As a Health Liaison Officer, you’ll be part of our dynamic team in Essex within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- AFC Band 7 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a number of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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