Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Multi-agency Child Protection Strategic Health Lead
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Role: Strategic Health Lead for Families First Partnership Programme
An experienced and influential safeguarding professional is required to lead the health system's contribution to the implementation of the Families First Partnership Programme (FFPP) across Oldham.
About the Role
This is a unique strategic leadership role at the forefront of national social care reform for children and families. Working on behalf of the Northern Care Alliance and the Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board (ICB), you will serve as the Strategic Health Lead, representing the statutory safeguarding partner across the local health economy on a 12-month secondment.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape how services work together to improve outcomes for children and families, ensuring that health plays a central role in designing, implementing and embedding a new system of help, support and protection.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic System Leadership and Quality Assurance
- Provide health representation within the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT), contributing to partnership performance monitoring, audits and safeguarding practice reviews.
- Deliver expert, highly specialised advice and support across the health economy on all safeguarding matters relating to children and young people.
- Represent and articulate agreed health system positions within programme governance arrangements, design forums and multi-agency working groups, reducing the need for routine escalation to senior ICB leadership.
- Work with health providers and commissioners to agree how health practitioners contribute to MACPT and Family Help Teams, Section 47 enquiries, child protection conferences and statutory decision-making processes. This includes establishing clear escalation pathways and ensuring access to medical expertise and advice where concerns about significant harm arise.
- Support the alignment of health pathways, including 0-19 services and relevant community health provision, with the end-to-end Families First Partnership Programme (FFPP) model, avoiding duplication, fragmentation and parallel processes.
- Lead and support the design and mobilisation of MACPTs by shaping and agreeing health's contribution to ensure that service models reflect statutory safeguarding responsibilities, local health system realities and the expectations set out in Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023).
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About Us
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
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As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
Benefits
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Agnes Leopold-James
Job title: Head of Nursing
Email address: agnes.leopold-james@nca.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07873700569
Jennifer Robertson
Designated Nurse Safeguarding Children, Oldham
NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care
Mobile: 07929861484
Email: jennifer.robertson13@nhs.net
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