Named Nurse Safeguarding Adults

NHS; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS organization is looking for an experienced Named Nurse for Safeguarding Adults to lead and develop safeguarding services. This pivotal senior role involves ensuring statutory compliance, providing expert guidance, and promoting a culture of safety and respect. The ideal candidate will have robust knowledge in safeguarding adults alongside significant experience in healthcare leadership.

Qualifications

• Robust knowledge of National Agenda around Safeguarding Adults and MCA.
• Significant experience at a senior grade.
• Awareness of clinical and policy developments in the safeguarding children & adults agenda.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional leadership for safeguarding adults across the trust.
• Lead on safeguarding adult reviews (SARs) and learning from incidents.
• Ensure compliance with the Care Act 2014 and NHS safeguarding standards.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical skills

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Clinical supervision skills

Change management

Interagency working

Education

Professional Registration ie Registered Nurse or AHP/SW

Master's Degree (or working towards a Master's)

Job description

Named Nurse Safeguarding Adults – Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 08 October 2025

Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking an exceptional, dynamic and experienced Named Nurse for Safeguarding Adults to lead and develop our safeguarding adult services within our acute hospital trust. This is a pivotal senior nursing leadership role, ensuring our organisation meets its statutory safeguarding responsibilities while promoting a culture of dignity, safety, and respect. As the Named Nurse, you will provide expert advice, guidance, and assurance to clinical and non-clinical teams, the Board, and partner agencies. You will lead safeguarding adults strategy, policy development, training, audit, and quality improvement, ensuring our safeguarding response is both robust and compassionate.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide professional leadership for safeguarding adults across the trust.
• Ensure compliance with the Care Act 2014, NHS safeguarding standards, CQC requirements, and intercollegiate competencies.
• Deliver specialist safeguarding supervision, advice, and case oversight on complex and high-risk cases.
• Lead on safeguarding adult reviews (SARs), Section 42 enquiries, and learning from incidents.
• Collaborate with multi-agency partners to strengthen safeguarding pathways and governance.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

• A robust knowledge and understanding of the National Agenda around Safeguarding Adults and MCA
• A robust knowledge of Safeguarding Adult and MCA issues and training
• Leadership
• Clinical Governance
• Change management
• Standard setting and audit
• Analytical skills
• Clinical supervision skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to self manage and meet tight deadlines
• Knowledge of adult
• Robust understanding of the Think Family Safeguarding
• Complaints management
• Budgetary and resource management
• Interagency working
• Court attendance experience
• Experience in participating in serious case reviews

Qualifications

• Professional Registration ie Registered Nurse or AHP/SW
• Master's Degree (or working towards a Master's) or equivalent in-depth knowledge

Further Training

• Teaching qualification/ or evidence of teaching experience
• Management Certificate/Diploma

Experience

• Awareness of clinical and policy developments in the safeguarding children & adults agenda.
• Significant experience at a senior grade
• Recent experience of adults services

Contractual Requirements

• A full driving licence

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 name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust