Senior Specialist Nurse - Safeguarding Children
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Secondment
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 14/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinical practitioner to join the safeguarding team and lead safeguarding activity within the organisation. The role involves ensuring safe and effective services for vulnerable children and adults across community and acute settings. The successful candidate will need excellent communication skills, critical evaluation abilities, and the capacity to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines. They will also be expected to demonstrate professional curiosity and the ability to make professional challenges.
Essential criteria
- Registered Children's Nurse / Community Public Health Practitioner
- 1st Level Degree
- Evidence of ongoing professional development and training undertaken in respect of safeguarding to minimum Level 3 (as per Intercollegiate Document)
Desirable criteria
- Masters degree or working towards
- Recognised teaching/ mentoring qualification
- Knowledge & Experience
- Knowledge of national and local safeguarding policies, guidelines and recommendations.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation relating to safeguarding children.
- Demonstrates knowledge relevant to patterns of abuse and neglect.
- Experience of safeguarding supervision.
- Experience of multi-agency child protection work.
- Experience of delivering training.
- Experience of policy development and implementation.
- Awareness of issues affecting ethnic minority families and other socially excluded groups..
- Working knowledge of children's health and development and the nature and impact of child maltreatment.
- Experience of multi-agency child protection work.
- Qualification in safeguarding supervision.
- Accredited training qualification.
- Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
- IT skills, including email, word and data collection.
- Presentation skills.
- Ability to analyse, critically evaluate information and record in a concise and accurate manner.
- Confidence to challenge appropriately in difficult situations.
- Ability to communicate across organisational boundaries.
- Ability to work under pressure, to prioritise, work flexibly and to tight deadlines.
- Completion of audits and reports within timescale.
- IT skills relating to Power Point, Excel.
- Other
- Satisfactory enhanced DBS check.
- Credible, decisive and of high personal and professional integrity.
- Car driver and owner, willing to travel within the remit of the service delivery areas.
- Registered Children's Nurse / Community Public Health Practitioner
- 1st Level Degree
- Evidence of ongoing professional development and training undertaken in respect of safeguarding to minimum Level 3 (as per Intercollegiate Document)
- Masters degree or working towards
- Recognised teaching/ mentoring qualification
- Knowledge & Experience
- Knowledge of national and local safeguarding policies, guidelines and recommendations.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation relating to safeguarding children.
- Demonstrates knowledge relevant to patterns of abuse and neglect.
- Experience of safeguarding supervision.
- Experience of multi-agency child protection work.
- Experience of delivering training.
- Experience of policy development and implementation.
- Awareness of issues affecting ethnic minority families and other socially excluded groups..
- Working knowledge of children's health and development and the nature and impact of child maltreatment.
- Experience of multi-agency child protection work.
- Qualification in safeguarding supervision.
- Accredited training qualification.
- Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
- IT skills, including email, word and data collection.
- Presentation skills.
- Ability to analyse, critically evaluate information and record in a concise and accurate manner.
- Confidence to challenge appropriately in difficult situations.
- Ability to communicate across organisational boundaries.
- Ability to work under pressure, to prioritise, work flexibly and to tight deadlines.
- Completion of audits and reports within timescale.
- IT skills relating to Power Point, Excel.
- Other
- Satisfactory enhanced DBS check.
- Credible, decisive and of high personal and professional integrity.
- Car driver and owner, willing to travel within the remit of the service delivery areas.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 6d
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Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Specialist Nurse - Safeguarding Children
The closing date is 14 September 2026
Job summary
This post is an exciting opportunity for a motivated, committed and experienced clinical practitioner to strengthen their safeguarding portfolio and to lead and drive safeguarding activity within the organisation. You will be a key leader in the safeguarding team which consists of Named Nurses (community, acute, adult and midwifery services), Specialist Nurses for Safeguarding, Looked After Children, Multi Agency Safeguarding and Complex Safeguarding Hub Specialist Nurses and Administration staff.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will need to be highly motivated to ensure safe and effective services for safeguarding vulnerable children and adults remains a priority for all colleagues working within the organisation across community and acute services.
You will need excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills and a flair for critically evaluating information and recording it in a concise and accurate manner. Comfortable working under pressure, adept at prioritising and working flexibly often to tight deadline you will possess professional curiosity and the ability to make professional challenge.
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