Child Death Review Practitioner

The Child Death Review Team is a small, professional and supportive team who are looking to welcome a new member. We review all child deaths from 0-17 years throughout Southend, Essex and Thurrock.

We are looking for a new team member to assist in the provision of high standards of holistic, family-centred care, supporting families who have experienced the death of a child.

The successful candidate will work in partnership with agencies to ensure a co-ordinated approach within the Child Death Review process to support families, ensure a thorough, robust review and to share the learning from the review. You will also be an expert resource for the multi- professional team.

• All requests for a JAR will be met within 24 hours, by the participation in a county wide rota to enable an on-call response for 58 hours per week, which will be supported by other team members.
• To collaborate with Designated and Named Professionals across SET to

ensure that there is a consistent and co-ordinated approach to child death review practice across the health economy.

• To provide expert up to date advice, training and supervision to appropriate professionals working with children on issues relating to child death review practice.
• Have advanced understanding of child care legislation, information sharing, information governance, confidentiality and consent, and be able to give advice to others on these.
• Organisation and representation at relevant meetings.
• Promote and facilitate good partnership working with all agencies enabling effective outcomes for children and young people.
• Ensure that performance data and supporting evidence for reporting

frameworks is maintained.

• To participate in the dissemination of information and learning from child death reviews, in a variety of educational forums, to all members of the multiagency teams across the health economy.

Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise To Our Patients As Identified By Our 3 Values Which Will Contribute To Improving Our Patient Experiences

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Zekiye Degmenlibey Job title: Child Death Review Team Lead Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01279 357 996

Sharon D’Cruz (Deputy Team lead) is also contactable by email- sharon.d’[email protected]

Informal visits are welcome with prior arrangement.