MASH Named Health Professional Safeguarding Children

Position: MASH Named Health Professional for Safeguarding Children
Job summary

Multi-Agency:
Safeguarding Hub (MASH) Named Health Professional for Safeguarding Children - Band 7

Based with MASH Team at Friargate house, Coventry An exciting opportunity for a Multi-agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) health practitioner in Coventry has arisen. The post holder will work in adynamic team and hold a senior position with a key role in the day-to-day running of the MASH.The applicant needs experience collating information from a wide range of systems including mental health, learning disabilities, autism, and universal services

As a key clinician in the MASH, you will be responsible for analysing and interpreting health information, about the risk of significant harm to children and families.

You will contribute to multi-agency decision-making to safeguard and protect children. You will have expertise in working with child safeguarding issues and experience in working with multiagency and multidisciplinary colleagues, to inform decisions.

This postholder will need to have a good knowledge of reflective practice and be able to demonstrate this to support themselves and others

Main duties of the jobThe main duties are to manage and analyse highly complex information to appropriately inform strategy meetings and risk assessments within theMASH. This will involve you ensuring that information is collated, recorded, and disseminated promptly and participating in MASH management meetings to ensure continued health contribution to the development of the MASH function.

To highlight concerns regarding practice to the appropriate Lead Named Professional within the provider organisation. To maintain high standards of record keeping and documentation on cases where information has been shared.

About us At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much asthey care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:o generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with uso excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much moreo salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and moreo discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHSdiscount schemeso wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and moreo staff networks and support groups

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

Details Date posted
18 August 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

BandBand 7

Salary
49,387 to 56,515 a year

per annum

Contract Secondment Working  pattern

Full-time

Reference number-CORPJob locations

Wayside House Wilsons Lane, Longford

CoventryCV6 6NY
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Job responsibilities

For the main description of The MASH Safeguarding Hub Named Health Professional for Safeguarding Children responsibilities please read thejob description

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential Registered Professional Educated to degree level/Professional Health Registration or experience in safeguarding /child protection

Knowledge and Skills

Essential Excellent knowledge/skills in safeguarding children, young people/Evidence of continued professional development in safeguarding children to level 3 (Intercollegiate Guidance 2019)
Understanding of the multiagency roles involved with children & families / Think Family/wider healthcare environment and multidisciplinary roles

Sound knowledge of local and national legislation and policy, e.g., Children Act 1989, GDPR, Working Together to Safeguarding Children (2023) Care Act 2014, Domestic Abuse Act 2021

Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to partners from a broad range of agencies, disciplines, and services.

Ability to analyse very complex issues where the material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.

Able to challenge decisions and escalate in an articulate rational manner

Experience/skills in identifying and responding to Children who have been the victims of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA)

Other

Essential Able to travel for work purposes and have access to an independent means of transport.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential Registered…