Band 7 Safeguarding Children Liaison Nurse
The closing date is 23 October 2025
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and Registered Nurse to join the Trust's Corporate Safeguarding Children's Team. Applications are invited from nurses currently working at Band 6 and above. The post holder will work closely with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children, in a small team, you will provide effective advice, training, and safeguarding supervision. You will also be expected to contribute to auditing, escalate concerns to partner agencies, take responsibility in the achievement and monitoring of KPIs, produce complex reports and participate in investigations.
The post holder will act as an expert resource within BHRUT, working in collaboration with managers and clinicians of all disciplines, providing expert advice through supervision and by being a visible presence on our wards, to ensure effective delivery of clinical services in accordance with the contractual commitments and associated regulations.
Main duties of the job
o Maintain appropriate communication arrangements with all stakeholders to ensure continuity of care for children attending the Trust about who there may be safeguarding concerns. This will involve effective liaison between acute and community services and work in partnership with all wards and departments where there are safeguarding concerns.
o Review the attendance of children attending the Emergency Care Department and any BHRUT hospital based Walk in Centres and liaise/share necessary information to protect children with Health Visitors /School Nurses/Child Health Department.
o Establish and maintain close links with other Paediatric Liaison Health Visitor/Nurse services in other areas.
o Have specific responsibility for supporting the implementation of the Early Help Assessment (EHA) or Early Help Assessment and Plan (EHA/EHP) process throughout the Trust (replacing the previous Common Assessment Framework - CAF).
o Support the Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP) and act as a coordinator internally/externally in the Child Death Review (CDR) process. Ensure that all documentation following a child's death is completed and relevant meetings held, prior to the case being heard at the CDOP panel, as stated in the national Child Death Review Statutory and Operational Guidance England (2018).
About us
We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with. We're no longer in special measures; we've opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and, in recognition of our progress, we've been shortlisted for Trust of the Year at the Health Service Journal Awards.
We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year.
The majority of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
Details
Date posted
09 October 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£53,751 to £60,651 a year per annum inclusive
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
162-7376-PA
Job locations
Safeguarding Team
Rom Valley Way
Romford
RM7 0AG
Employer details
Employer name
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
Safeguarding Team
Rom Valley Way
Romford
RM7 0AG
Employer's website
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