Safeguarding Children Nurse

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in Oxford is looking for a Safeguarding Children Named Nurse to provide expert advice and support to health professionals. The role involves safeguarding children and young people, conducting risk assessments, and collaborating with agencies to ensure comprehensive care. Successful candidates should have a relevant nursing degree and a strong understanding of child protection legislation. Join a compassionate team dedicated to delivering excellence in patient care.

Qualifications

• High level of expertise in safeguarding children.
• Ability to work autonomously and make high-level decisions.
• Support for clinical practices and cross-agency collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance and support to health professionals.
• Actively contribute to clinical practice development.
• Ensure safeguarding arrangements are robust.

Skills

Safeguarding expertise

Autonomous decision-making

Risk assessment

Child protection legislation knowledge

Education

Relevant nursing degree

Job description

Responsibilities

The post holder will demonstrate a high level of expertise in relation to safeguarding children and provide specialist advice, education, supervision and support to health professionals.

The post holder is able to work autonomously making high level decisions and work closely with partner agencies to develop a seamless service for children and their families.

This post will be responsible for contributing to the ongoing development of clinical practice, research, audit and the development of policies, protocols and guidelines to contribute to service developments in collaboration with multi‑disciplinary colleagues.

The post supports the Head of Safeguarding & Safeguarding Children Operational Manager, working in partnership with the Safeguarding Team and Named Doctors to ensure comprehensive and robust arrangements are in place for safeguarding children and young people across the OUH.

Work as a member of the organisation’s safeguarding/child protection team.

Support all activities necessary to ensure that the organisation meets its responsibilities to safeguard/protect children and young people.

Support staff in the assessment and analysis of risk for children, young people and families, contributing to formal reports as directed attending conference/strategy meetings to ensure information needed to protect is shared.

Provide advice (direct and indirect) to colleagues on the assessment, treatment and clinical services for all forms of child maltreatment including neglect, emotional and physical abuse, Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII), child sexual abuse, honour‑based violence, trafficking, FGM, and child sexual/drug/, exploitation.

Act as an advocate for service users to ensure a child‑oriented approach to the delivery of care in order to meet standards within the child protection legislation and guidelines.

Assess and evaluate evidence, write reports and present information to child protection conferences and related meetings.

Provide advice and signposting to other professionals about legal processes, key research and policy documents.

Support the Safeguarding Liaison service to ensure information is shared with primary care and children social care when children and families attend the emergency department when safeguarding concerns are identified.

Be responsible to and accountable within the managerial framework of the employing organisation.

About the Trust

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals – the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please viewOUH At a Glance by OUHospitals – Issuu.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Additional Information

Please see Job Description and Personal Specification for the full details of the current job role – Safeguarding Children Named Nurse.

This advert closes on Thursday 5 Feb 2026.