Job summary
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for an experienced and committed safeguarding professional to join our organisation as the Named Nurse/Professional for Safeguarding Children & Young People.
As a senior member of the Trust's 'Think Family' safeguarding team, and reporting to the Head of Safeguarding & Vulnerabilities, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the Trust fulfils its statutory duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people in line with Working Together to Safeguard Children, the Children Act 1989/2004, and relevant NHS England safeguarding standards.
You will provide strategic leadership, expert advice, and professional oversight to ensure safeguarding is consistently visible, prioritised, and embedded across all acute hospital services. Your role will be central to strengthening organisational compliance, improving safeguarding outcomes, and supporting a culture where safeguarding is recognised as everyone's responsibility.
We are seeking a highly motivated and resilient professional with excellent organisational and communication skills, who thrives in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. You will bring substantial safeguarding expertise, confidence in multi-agency working, and the ability to influence and support colleagues at all levels.
Apply now to join our team!
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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Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- A robust knowledge and understanding of the National Agenda
- A robust knowledge of Safeguarding Children issues and training
- Leadership
- Clinical Governance
- Change management
- Standard setting and audit
- Guideline/protocol development
- Analytical skills
- Research skills
- Reflective skills
- Clinical supervision skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to self-manage and meet tight deadlines
- Robust understanding of the Think Family Safeguarding agenda safeguarding
Desirable
- Complaints management
- Budgetary and resource management
- Interagency working
- Court attendance experience
- Experience in participating in serious case reviews
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse/ Children's Nurse/Midwife/Health Visitor/School Nurse
- Master's Degree (or working towards a Master's) or equivalent in-depth knowledge
Further Training
Essential
- Teaching qualification/ or evidence of teaching experience
- Management Certificate/Diploma
Experience
Essential
- Awareness of clinical and policy developments in the safeguarding children & adults' agenda
- Minimum 3 years at a senior grade
Desirable
- Recent experience of children's services
Contractual Requirements
Essential
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- A robust knowledge and understanding of the National Agenda
- A robust knowledge of Safeguarding Children issues and training
- Leadership
- Clinical Governance
- Change management
- Standard setting and audit
- Guideline/protocol development
- Analytical skills
- Research skills
- Reflective skills
- Clinical supervision skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to self-manage and meet tight deadlines
- Robust understanding of the Think Family Safeguarding agenda safeguarding
Desirable
- Complaints management
- Budgetary and resource management
- Interagency working
- Court attendance experience
- Experience in participating in serious case reviews
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse/ Children's Nurse/Midwife/Health Visitor/School Nurse
- Master's Degree (or working towards a Master's) or equivalent in-depth knowledge
Further Training
Essential
- Teaching qualification/ or evidence of teaching experience
- Management Certificate/Diploma
Experience
Essential
- Awareness of clinical and policy developments in the safeguarding children & adults' agenda
- Minimum 3 years at a senior grade
Desirable
- Recent experience of children's services
Contractual Requirements
Essential
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
