Safeguarding Administration Assistant

Employer Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Whiston Hospital Town Prescot Salary £24,465 Per Annum, Pro Rata Salary period Yearly Closing 09/03/2026 23:59 Interview date 20/03/2026

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Administrator to join our Safeguarding Team here at Whiston Hospital.

(Hours are required to be worked over 5 days Mon-Friday)

To provide administrative support to the Maternity Safeguarding Practitioners, based within the Safeguarding Children Team. The role of the team is to ensure that safeguarding processes are followed where necessary for women, children and unborn infants accessing maternity services. Additional administrative support will be provided to the wider safeguarding team.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

• Manage invites to safeguarding meetings ensuring attendance by allocated midwife.
• Update and manage electronic calendars.
• Create and manage spreadsheets to collate relevant data.
• Add safeguarding information to electronic patient records
• General filing duties and clerical support
• Adding and maintaining alerts on the electronic patient records
• Collate information required for multi-agency meetings
• Answering telephone calls and passing information to the safeguarding team
• Capture relevant data and maintain databases
• Support the Team in maintaining Safeguarding training compliance

The duties contained in this job description are not intended to be exhaustive. It is intended that the post holder will be flexible in the duties that he/she performs. Following consultation with the post holder his/her duties may be varied from time to time, in order to meet changing priorities and to maintain the service effectiveness. A review of the job description will be carried out on an annual basis or earlier if required.

• Educated to GCSE level or…