Safeguarding Team
Non-urgent advice: Domestic abuse and Safeguarding Health Coaches
- Provide specialist support, completing person-centred support plans and risk assessments
- Providing support to individuals and families who may have diverse or complex needs
- Collaborate with patients in a trauma-informed way identifying the needs of our patients, providing appropriate advice and support to ensure patients maintain their own safety and move towards being safe and independent
- Support patients making police statements
- Seek legal advice for patients when required
- Regularly engage with groups such as LGBTQ+ communities, older people, BAME, cultural communities and many other isolated group
Non-urgent advice: Safeguarding Co-Ordinator
- Reviews safeguarding registers to make sure they are up to date
- Reviews incoming correspondence for patients on the safeguarding register
- Reviews all patient DNAs, for primary and secondary care to make sure patients aren't missing important appointments.
- Arranges, chair and minute safeguarding meetings within the practice team.
- Attends Team Around the Child, Team Around the Adult, Team Around the Family, Strategy and Child Protection Case Conferences and feeds back to the relevant GP team
- Prepares reports for outside agencies including Child Protection Case Conferences, PREVENT, social workers etc
- Recalls children for immunisations to make sure they are protected from disease
- Refers patients to social care if required
- Follows up on safeguarding concerns reported by staff
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Page last reviewed: 23 October 2026
Page created: 15 March 2024
Page created: 15 March 2024