Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children

Transformation Unit; Lancashire; Hybrid; GBP 58.000 - 65.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Named Nurse Safeguarding Children to lead safeguarding across clinical and corporate services. The role provides expert advice, governance, and professional challenge to ensure statutory safeguarding responsibilities are met.

The post leads a safeguarding team, develops policies, conducts training, and ensures learning from reviews is embedded into practice, aligning with national guidance and NHS safeguarding requirements.

Qualifikationen

• Current NMC Registration and active practice.
• Degree in Nursing or related health discipline.
• Master's degree or working towards Master's level is desirable.

Aufgaben

• Provide safeguarding leadership across the Trust.
• Offer expert safeguarding advice on high‑risk concerns.
• Lead safeguarding supervision and professional development.

Kenntnisse

Specialist safeguarding advice

Leadership

Communication skills

Policy development

Training delivery

Ausbildung

NMC Registration

Degree in Nursing or related health discipline

Master's degree or progress toward

Jobbeschreibung

Employer Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Town Blackpool Salary £57,528 - £64,750 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 23/11/2026 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.

We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.

We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.

Job overview

The Named Nurse Safeguarding Children is a senior safeguarding leader responsible for providing expert advice, leadership, assurance, supervision and education to ensure the Trust meets its statutory responsibilities to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people. The post holder will lead on safeguarding children across the organisation, supporting staff to recognise, assess and manage safeguarding risks, whilst providing professional challenge and strategic oversight where required

Working as a key member of the Corporate Safeguarding Team, the post holder will work closely with operational services, executive leaders and multi-agency partners to improve outcomes for vulnerable children, young people and families. They will provide specialist safeguarding expertise, contribute to governance and assurance frameworks, lead safeguarding supervision and training programmes, and ensure that learning from reviews, audits and incidents is embedded into practice across the Trust.

The post holder will act as a visible safeguarding leader, promoting a culture of safeguarding excellence, professional curiosity, partnership working and continuous improvement in line with national legislation, statutory guidance and NHS safeguarding requirements

Main duties of the job

• Provide Trust-wide leadership, embedding children’s safeguarding across clinical and corporate services.
• Offer expert advice and professional challenge on complex, sensitive and high-risk concerns, supporting staff to recognise, assess and manage safeguarding risks.
• Lead and manage the Safeguarding Children’s Team, including management and safeguarding supervision.
• Develop policies, procedures and supervision frameworks aligned with legislation, statutory guidance and multi-agency requirements.
• Lead and evaluate safeguarding training to ensure staff competence.
• Provide governance and assurance against CQC standards, NHS requirements, Section 11 duties and performance indicators; identify, record and elevate risks.
• Prepare reports for operational meetings, committees and the Trust Board.
• Lead responses to safeguarding reviews, incidents and patient safety investigations, ensuring learning is embedded through audit, improvement and service development.
• Work with statutory and voluntary partners and support legal processes, including court statements, strategy meetings and child protection conferences.
• Promote the voice of children and young people, involve parents and carers appropriately, and ensure lawful information handling in line with confidentiality, GDPR, Caldicott and information-sharing requirements.

Working for our organisation

BTH is part of the Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Collaborative, therefore all roles will be required to support system wide working across the Lancashire & South Cumbria regions.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Act as the Trust’s Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children, providing visible, expert leadership and promoting safeguarding as everyone’s responsibility.
• Provide professional challenge, strategic direction and highly specialist advice on complex, sensitive and high-risk safeguarding children and child protection matters.
• Embed, monitor and assure robust safeguarding arrangements within clinical governance, risk and quality frameworks, including compliance with legislation, statutory guidance, CQC standards, ICB indicators, NHS England assurance requirements, Section 11 duties and contractual standards.
• Lead, implement and evaluate a Trust-wide safeguarding supervision framework that supports sound decision-making, reflective practice, staff wellbeing and improved outcomes.
• Support practitioners preparing court or witness statements and multi-agency reports, and attending court, strategy meetings or conferences, ensuring lawful and secure information sharing.
• Work with Named and Designated Professionals, service leads, local authorities and partner agencies to embed a holistic, trauma-informed “Think Family” approach.
• Lead the development, implementation, review and monitoring of safeguarding children policies, procedures and guidance across the Trust.
• Analyse safeguarding data, risks, incidents and trends; communicate evidence-based options; raise concerns; and support quality assurance, audit and improvement activity.
• Represent the Corporate Safeguarding Team at Trust-wide meetings and contribute to quarterly and annual reports through governance structures to Board level.
• Line manage the Safeguarding Children’s Team and provide management and professional supervision to safeguarding practitioners.
• Coordinate timely organisational responses and learning from Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews, Safeguarding Adult Reviews, Domestic Homicide Reviews, Child Death Overview Panel outcomes and safeguarding-related Patient Safety Incident Investigations, in line with PSIRF.
• Promote effective partnership working with statutory and voluntary agencies and ensure appropriate Trust participation in safeguarding meetings and case conferences.
• Champion the voice of children and young people and the engagement of parents and carers, while promoting equitable, culturally sensitive, non-discriminatory practice.
• Maintain professional knowledge through research, networks and supervision, uphold confidentiality, equality, professional standards and the relevant code of conduct.

Person specification

Education & Qualification

• Current NMC Registration
• Degree in Nursing or related health discipline
• Evidence of continuous professional development relevant to safeguarding children
• Master's degree or working towards Master's level qualification

Experience & Knowledge

• Significant post-registration experience working with children and families within acute, community or specialist safeguarding services
• Extensive safeguarding children experience at a senior level
• Experience of managing complex child protection concerns and providing expert advice
• Experience of multi-agency working with Children's Social Care, Police and Education
• Experience of chairing and contributing to safeguarding meetings
• Experience of delivering safeguarding supervision to healthcare staff
• Experience of developing and delivering safeguarding training programmes and disseminating learning from Statutory Safeguarding Reviews
• Comprehensive knowledge of safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance including: Children Act 1989 & 2004, Working Together to Safeguard Children, Human Rights Act, Mental Capacity Act, Prevent, Domestic Abuse Act and relevant NHS England guidance
• Understanding of child protection processes, exploitation, serious youth violence, contextual safeguarding, trafficking and complex safeguarding presentations
• Understanding of NHS governance, quality assurance and risk management processes
• Detailed knowledge of intercollegiate safeguarding competencies and training requirements
• Knowledge of commissioning and safeguarding assurance processes
• Previous experience in a Named Nurse, Designated Nurse or safeguarding leadership role
• Experience of managing staff or professional leadership responsibilities

Skills & Ability

• Ability to provide highly specialist safeguarding advice and challenge across all levels of the organisation
• Ability to provide professional leadership and strategic direction for safeguarding children across the Trust
• Experience of leading service improvement initiatives and experience of safeguarding audits, quality reviews and service evaluations
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills including influencing senior clinicians and managers
• Ability to support workforce development and professional supervision arrangements
• Ability to influence practice and drive organisational change
• Ability to analyse highly complex information and exercise professional judgement in situations of uncertainty
• Ability to write high-quality reports, policies and assurance papers and ability to interpret and present safeguarding performance data and assurance information
• Ability to present information to Boards, Committees and external agencies
• Facilitation and teaching skills
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work autonomously
• Strong IT and data analysis skills
• Self-motivated with a commitment to safeguarding excellence
• Demonstrates compassion, integrity and professionalism
• Commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion and anti-oppressive practice
• Experience of presenting at conferences and regional networks
• Experience of research, publication or contributing to regional/national safeguarding workstreams

Any invitation to interview will be sent to the email account stated on your application form.

If the role you have applied for requires a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check we will administer this as part of your pre-employment checks. Please note, you will be required to repay the cost on appointment. This will be collected via a salary deduction. You can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months from your salary or as a one-off payment on commencement in post. The level of check required depends on the role that you have been offered. Currently the charges are - Basic DBS check £24, Standard DBS check £24 and Enhanced DBS check £45.

You are encouraged where possible, to register for the DBS update service. This is an annual registration fee of £15. By registering for the update service you will not have the additional cost of repeated disclosures.

Should you withdraw your application, you may be required to reimburse the cost of the DBS check.

DBS checks remain free of charge for volunteer positions.

By submitting an application for this vacancy you are confirming your agreement to the above in the event you are successfully appointed.

The DBS Code of Practice can be accessed here .

Please ensure that you read the Person Specification attached below as your application will be judged against this.

Please note that every effort will be made to keep the vacancy live until published closing date, though there may be instances where such interest is generated, that for administrative reasons the post may close earlier.

Please note that in line with national NHS guidelines this Trust operates a strict non-smoking policy. Members of staff are not permitted to smoke on Trust premises or grounds at any time nor take breaks during working hours for the purposes of smoking.

The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.