Safeguarding Administration Assistant

RSFT Safeguarding Teams Administrative Support

The RSFT safeguarding teams are instrumental in supporting families to keep them safe. The team are looking for administrative support to help them be as efficient as possible in their role and ensure they meet all of the necessary regulatory requirements.

They look forward to welcoming a new team member that is organised, a team player, with initiative and good information technology skills to support them.

If you feel that you have the right skill set and are able to manage the everyday challenges that the NHS and safeguarding adults and children at risk brings then we would like to hear from you.

Purpose of the Role

• To provide a comprehensive, effective and confidential administrative support to Safeguarding nurses/midwives, using a self-motivated and proactive approach.
• To provide a considerate, patient focused service in all dealings with patients and with staff around the hospital and throughout the whole system.
• To provide administrative support to the Safeguarding teams as required, e.g. filing, photocopying, arranging meetings and training sessions, producing training materials and packs, collating and inputting audit data and providing reports as necessary.
• Arrange meetings as requested sourcing a venue, circulating minutes and agendas for the safeguarding teams.
• To be aware of the complaints procedure and use initiative to resolve complaints from patients and any other individuals as far as possible. Escalate outstanding concerns as required.
• To support the named nurse/midwife in collecting information sharing forms around the trust and/or Emergency Department cards and as per direction from named nurse/midwife liaise with community staff as required.
• To receive and process national ‘safeguarding alerts’ notifications and follow the procedure for the trust.