Named Professional for Safeguarding Children
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 14/08/2026
- Closes
- 01/09/2026
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Role summary
This role supports the Head of Safeguarding Adults and Children, working across health and social care to prevent harm and facilitate multi-professional interagency working in Safeguarding Children. It ensures statutory responsibilities of the Children Act are met by providing clinical guidance and expert advice. The post involves cooperation across agencies in child protection practice, supervision, education, accountability, and governance. It aims to minimise risks to children and families by fostering effective inter-disciplinary and inter-agency relationships.
Essential criteria
- Relevant Professional Qualification
- Educated to Degree level or equivalent experience
- Knowledge and Skills
- Knowledge of child safeguarding and domestic abuse issues including policies and procedures
- In depth knowledge of the nature and effects of child abuse.
- Understanding of local partners to be engaged and knowledge of the NHS, and Local Authorities
- A proven track record of innovative practice and change management related to service development.
- has a sound knowledge of contextual safeguarding
- Extensive Experience of working in a complex multi professional organisational environment and strategic partnership level with other statutory, voluntary and private sector organisations.
- Appropriate demonstrable experience in an area related to safeguarding Children and Adults with Think Family in mind
- Relevant Professional Qualification
- Educated to Degree level or equivalent experience
- Knowledge and Skills
- Knowledge of child safeguarding and domestic abuse issues including policies and procedures
- In depth knowledge of the nature and effects of child abuse.
- Understanding of local partners to be engaged and knowledge of the NHS, and Local Authorities
- A proven track record of innovative practice and change management related to service development.
- has a sound knowledge of contextual safeguarding
- Extensive Experience of working in a complex multi professional organisational environment and strategic partnership level with other statutory, voluntary and private sector organisations.
- Appropriate demonstrable experience in an area related to safeguarding Children and Adults with Think Family in mind
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.
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Job summary
This role supports to the Head of Safeguarding Adults and Children
The role entails working across the local health and social care economies to prevent harm, fostering and facilitating multi-professional interagency working in respect of Safeguarding Children.
Ensuring statutory responsibilities of the Children Act (1989 & 2004) are met. These obligations are fulfilled by providing clinical guidance across the field of safeguarding and protecting children.
The scope of the post includes cooperation across agencies in the contribution and development of child protection practice, supervision, education, accountability, governance and provision of expert advice based upon mandatory and statutory frameworks and guidelines. Working collaboratively in providing high quality evidence based services to support the development of effective inter-disciplinary and inter-agency relationships with other NHS Trusts, Local Authority, Police, Education and other Statutory and Voluntary agencies in order to minimise the risks to children and their families. The post holder is required to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information where significant barriers to acceptance need to be overcome using the highest levels of interpersonal and communication skills.
Main duties of the job
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