MASH Support Officer

The Support Officer will work within the Central Referral Unit (CRU) in the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) as part of a multi-agency response to Domestic Abuse, Child Abuse and Adult Abuse in County Durham and Darlington. This includes supporting MARAC that deals with high-risk domestic abuse and Strategy Team support regarding child protection.

What You’ll Do

To provide a complete, comprehensive and confidential support service to the CRU, MASH, MARAC, Strategy Team, internal professionals, external Police Forces and key partner agencies.

To be a point of contact for advice and information and foster good relations with departments within own force, external forces and partnership agencies to facilitate the exchange of data and information

Perform detailed and thorough interrogation and research of police databases and intelligence systems to identify and record relevant information so allow an assessment and identification of risk to any child or vulnerable adult.

Perform detailed and thorough interrogation of police databases and intelligence systems to identify and record relevant information. To prepare reports for multi-agency meetings, child protection conferences and confidential reports.

(This will also involve being exposed to information or material of a sensitive and distressing nature).

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