Named Nurse Safeguarding Children (INTERNAL)
The closing date is 19 December 2025
Job summary
***INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY***
The Named Nurse will lead on the safeguarding of children and the promotion of their welfare within the Trust. They will be responsible for assuring the Trust Board that a high quality safeguarding service is being provided within WVT NHS Trust.
The Named Nurse role is to seek to improve the health outcomes for children and families by the promotion of innovative practice and collaborative working across our multi-agency arrangements, stimulating the awareness of health needs and influencing policies that affect health and the facilitation of health enhancing activities.
The role involves providing highly specialist advice and clinical support to staff employed and commissioned by the Trust, maintaining appropriate documentation and records. To facilitate and provide a culture of safeguarding support via safeguarding supervision and training whilst being a source of knowledge in the area of safeguarding children.
Main duties of the job
Leadership / Clinical Responsibilities
- Provision of professional leadership and expertise
- Provide expert advice and support to the Trust Board and the Directors on strategic matters relating to safeguarding children.
- Advise the Trust Board, through the Executive Director, on their responsibilities in relation to safeguarding children and the actions they need to take to ensure that the Trust meets performance indicators relating to safeguarding.
- Advise the Board on the coordination and delivery of safeguarding children services
- Provide expert advice to the managers of all services, on safeguarding children
- Ensure that the Board, and Directors are kept informed of the implications of new government guidance on safeguarding for the provision of services.
- Advise the Board on any safeguarding deficiencies within the Trust and develop action plans for managing any risks identified.
- To develop systems which enhance multi-agency / partnership working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.
- To write, update and implement Trust policies, procedures and protocols in conjunction with other key safeguarding staff and ensure they reflect both evidence based changes in practice and those brought about by legislation/new guidance.
- To establish and maintain effective liaison and working relationships with other areas of the health economy and partnership agencies such as social services, police, education and the voluntary sector
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South WarwickshireUniversity NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.
More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.
Details
Date posted
12 December 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£55,690 to £62,682 a year per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Job share
Reference number
229-COR-7668012
Job locations
Hereford County Hospital
Union Walk
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
Hereford County Hospital
Union Walk
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Named Nurse Safeguarding Children (Herefordshire)
Caron Shelley
07791866145
