Named Nurse Safeguarding Adults | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Sutton-in-Ashfield is seeking a Named Nurse for Safeguarding Adults. This pivotal role involves leading safeguarding services, ensuring compliance with statutory responsibilities, and providing expert guidance to clinical teams. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills and experience in safeguarding adults, contributing to a culture of safety and respect within the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience in safeguarding adult services
• Leadership and management skills in a healthcare setting
• Knowledge of Care Act 2014 and NHS safeguarding standards

Responsibilities

• Provide professional leadership for safeguarding adults across the trust.
• Ensure compliance with safeguarding standards and regulations.
• Deliver specialist safeguarding supervision and case oversight on complex cases.

Job description

Overview

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.

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.

Organisation and culture

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.

Visa sponsorship

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

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.

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

How to apply

Apply now to join our team!

This advert closes on Wednesday 8 Oct 2025