Conflict of interest.

[Jussy71]

I have just been offered a role within the initial response team in safeguarding, however, my daughter has been contacted by the Mash team in the same department as I have been offered the role due to her ex partners behaviour towards her and she has young children with him. Will this affect my role ?

I don't think it should (but you need to be honest) as long as you have no involvement from a professional point of view.
I worked for an nhs /social services combined team and 3 times I turned down cases that I felt were a conflict of interest, it was never an issue, however would have been if I hadn't divulged the conflict.

Just tell them that your daughter is currently known to the MASH team (particularly if she has a different surname etc) and they will make sure that she isn't allocated to you. They will also lock down your record so that it can't be seen by anyone you work with. And being obvious, but don't ever look up her records as it would be an immediate breach.

Thank you, I didn’t think it would be a concern, however, I just thought I would check anyway. I wouldn’t dream of hiding anything like this from the people I am going to work alongside and would never look up my daughters records.
just a big relief knowing that it won’t impact my new job.