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Child Death Review & Safeguarding Children Training Administrator

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279)
Lyndhurst Road, Worthing, BN112DH Posted 6 November 2026 Apply by 22 November 2026
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Salary for this role£28,392 – £31,157 a year
Health and Care route minimum£25,000 a year
Pay basisNational pay scales (NHS bands)

This occupation falls under the Health and Care Worker route. Salaries set by national pay scales (NHS bands) at or above the relevant band rate typically meet the occupation's requirement.

Closest occupation match: SOC 2236, Registered children’s nurses. Pay for this occupation is set by national pay scales (NHS bands), so no single Home Office going rate applies.

Individual eligibility depends on personal circumstances. These figures are public reference information, not advice or a verdict on this job.

Role description

Job summary

This role provides an opportunity to develop your business support and administration skills within children's safeguarding team, whilst working within a supportive friendly and caring team. You will work closely with the safeguarding children's team; patient safety team and child death clinical leads in relation to the child death review process. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the child death review processes within the Trust and provide business support for the safeguarding children governance arrangements.

This vacancy is advertised as a time-limited opportunity is expected to be undertaken on a secondment basis.

Before applying, employees must discuss the opportunity with their current line manager to confirm whether they may be released from their substantive role if successful. Release to undertake a secondment is not an automatic entitlement and must be agreed by all relevant parties: the employee, their current line manager, and the recruiting line manager.

Main duties of the job

The role has two core elements:-

Providing administrative support for the child death review (CDR) process at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (UHSx). This includes responsibility for coordinating the CDR process, scheduling CDR meetings adhering to statutory timeframes, preparing the agenda, circulating papers and minute taking of meetings involving child health and safeguarding discussions (which can be of a highly complex, sensitive and emotional nature), recording and maintaining activity data, supporting the inputting data onto the electronic child death (eCDOP) System and providing a central communication point for child death review process at UHSx.Providing business support for the children's safeguarding governance arrangements. This will include coordinating training and inputting of data onto the electronic training platform (Iris), administering surveys, analysing data, formatting documents, presentations and reports; providing communications support (eg. drafting and formatting newsletters and maintaining safeguarding content on UHSx internal and external facing web pages), data input, maintaining data collection programme databases.

About us

Working for our organisation

At UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us always deliver Excellent Care Everywhere, as shown in our Outstanding for Caring CQC rating. Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of staff networks to help break down barriers, and can offer abuddy to help new members settle in. We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 3) and a Veteran Aware Trust.

Candidate Pack

Details

Date posted

06 November 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£28,392 to £31,157 a year Per annum pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

3 years

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

279-8361221-NOV26

Job locations

Worthing Hospital

Lyndhurst Road, Worthing

BN112DH

United Kingdom


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please note: This role does not meet the minimum criteria for visa sponsorship under the current UK immigration rules, which set specific salary and skill thresholds. As such, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this post. Applicants will therefore need to already have the right to work in the UK to be considered. We include this information at the outset to provide clarity and avoid unnecessary inconvenience for applicants.

If you do not meet the sponsorship requirements, and you are applying using a Graduate visa as your right to work, you must have a minimum of 18 months remaining on your visa at time of application.

The successful candidate will support the Child Death Review processes across the Trust as a whole and Safeguarding Children Governance arrangements. You will work closely with the Trusts Child Death Review Lead doctors and assist members of the Joint Agency Response (JAR) in accessing information and records held Within the Trust. They will hold responsibility for co-ordinating and facilitating the safeguarding children governance arrangements and provide high level administrative support in this area. For more detail about the main duties of this role, please see the job description below.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

  • NVQ level 4 or equivalent in an area related to the Post
  • Demonstrate ability to devise, implement and monitor administrative systems.
  • Experience of responding effectively to non-routine queries, and developing alternative standard operating procedures (SOPs) in response.
  • Experience of producing and designing reports
  • Experience of working collaboratively.
  • Evidence of developed communication skills, able to convey information effectively.
  • A good understanding of confidentiality and the ability to apply this to the role and work.
  • Effective time management and prioritisation
  • Ability to manage databases and analyse basic data sets
  • The postholder will need to act independently within guidelines, and appropriately determine when it is necessary to refer issues to their manager.

Desirable

  • ECDL or equivalent in an area related to the post
  • Experience of Website creation and management
  • Structured training (and ideally accreditation following competency assessment) in business or project management.
  • Previous experience of administration to support business and governance arrangements
  • Skills in design (esp. newsletters, web pages).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279)

Address

Worthing Hospital

Lyndhurst Road, Worthing

BN112DH

United Kingdom


Employer's website

https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/

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