Named Nurse​/Professional Safeguarding Children & Young

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The closing date is 15 March 2026

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
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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!

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

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.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs -

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

• 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
• Analytical 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
• Complaints management
• Budgetary and resource management
• Interagency working
• Court attendance experience
• Experience in participating in serious case reviews

• Registered Nurse/ Children’s Nurse/ Midwife/ Health Visitor/ School Nurse
• Master's Degree (or working towards a Master's) or equivalent in‑depth knowledge

• Teaching qualification/ or evidence of teaching experience
• Management Certificate/Diploma

• Awareness of clinical and policy developments in the safeguarding children & adults' agenda
• Minimum 3 years at a senior grade
• Recent experience of children's services

• A full driving licence

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.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust