Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children

The Named Nurse Safeguarding Children is a senior safeguarding leader responsible for providing expert advice, leadership, assurance, supervision and education to ensure the Trust meets its statutory responsibilities to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people. The post holder will lead on safeguarding children across the organisation, supporting staff to recognise, assess and manage safeguarding risks, whilst providing professional challenge and strategic oversight where required

Working as a key member of the Corporate Safeguarding Team, the post holder will work closely with operational services, executive leaders and multi-agency partners to improve outcomes for vulnerable children, young people and families. They will provide specialist safeguarding expertise, contribute to governance and assurance frameworks, lead safeguarding supervision and training programmes, and ensure that learning from reviews, audits and incidents is embedded into practice across the Trust.

The post holder will act as a visible safeguarding leader, promoting a culture of safeguarding excellence, professional curiosity, partnership working and continuous improvement in line with national legislation, statutory guidance and NHS safeguarding requirements

Main duties of the job

Provide Trust-wide leadership, embedding children's safeguarding across clinical and corporate services.

Offer expert advice and professional challenge on complex, sensitive and high-risk concerns, supporting staff to recognise, assess, escalate and manage safeguarding risks.

Lead and manage the Safeguarding Children's Team, including management and safeguarding supervision.

Develop policies, procedures and supervision frameworks aligned with legislation, statutory guidance and multi-agency requirements.

Lead and evaluate safeguarding training to ensure staff competence.

Provide governance and assurance against CQC standards, NHS requirements, Section 11 duties and performance indicators; identify, record and escalate risks.

Prepare reports for operational meetings, committees and the Trust Board.

Lead responses to safeguarding reviews, incidents and patient safety investigations, ensuring learning is embedded through audit, quality improvement and service development.

Work with statutory and voluntary partners and support legal processes, including court statements, strategy meetings and child protection conferences.

Promote the voice of children and young people, involve parents and carers appropriately, and ensure lawful information handling in line with confidentiality, GDPR, Caldicott and information-sharing requirements.

BTH is part of the Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Collaborative, therefore all roles will be required to support system wide working across the Lancashire & South Cumbria regions.