Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children | Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children. The post provides expert leadership and strategic oversight to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people across the Trust, guiding staff to recognise, assess and manage safeguarding risks with professional challenge.

Working within the Corporate Safeguarding Team, the role collaborates with operational services, executives and partners to embed safeguarding

Responsibilities

• Provide Trust-wide leadership, embedding children’s safeguarding across clinical and corporate services.
• Offer expert advice and professional challenge on complex, high-risk safeguarding concerns, supporting staff to recognise, assess, escalate 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 and multi‑agency requirements.
• Lead safeguarding training to ensure staff competence.
• Provide governance and assurance against CQC standards, NHS requirements and safeguarding indicators; identify and escalate risks.
• Prepare reports for operational meetings, committees and the Trust Board.
• Lead responses to safeguarding reviews, incidents and patient safety investigations, embedding learning through audit and quality improvement.
• Work with statutory and voluntary partners to support legal processes, including court statements and strategy meetings.

Job description

Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children | Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Company: Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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

• 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, escal**ate** 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 escal**ate** 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, quality 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.

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.

• 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; escal**ate** 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.

This advert closes on Monday 23 Nov 2026