Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children

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This full-time permanent Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children role at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, operating across the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth trusts, offers NHS Band 8A pay of £57,528 to £64,750 and is based at Queen Alexandra Hospital with travel between sites. You will strategically lead safeguarding to meet statutory duties under Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 and the Children Act, manage the Child Safeguarding Team and budget, and work with Police and Children’s Services on safeguarding alerts. Essential: NMC registered nurse, degree or working towards Masters, minimum two years as safeguarding specialist, leadership and change management, knowledge of section 11 duties and audit cycles. Tips: tailor your CV to show inter-agency collaboration, budget accountability, and training delivery; provide concrete examples of governance success and readiness for multi-site leadership.

Company Description

Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this. 

The single corporate service is delivered across both organisations.  You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.

Job Description

NHS Band 8A Salary:   £57,528 - £64,750 per annum

Hours per week:    Full time 37.5

Contract:      Permanent

Location Base:  Queen Alexandra Hospital, Southwick Hill Road, Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 3LY

To fulfil the role and responsibilities of the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children as detailed in ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’ (2023), The Children Act (1989 and 2004), and the ‘Safeguarding Children and Young People, Roles and Responsibilities for Health Care Staff’ (Intercollegiate Document 2019).

Strategically lead and support all activities necessary to ensure that the organisation meets the statutory responsibilities to safeguard and protect children and young people.

Specific Core Functions

• To proactively and strategically lead the Trust in maintaining compliance to statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements set out in safeguarding law and policy.
• Effective use of the child safeguarding team budget.
• Direct line management of Child Safeguarding Team.
• Required to work closely with multi-agency safeguarding teams to investigate safeguarding alerts in which health concerns are a major issue. This will involve close working with safeguarding agencies throughout Hampshire including but not limited to the Police, Children’s Services and other safeguarding colleagues.
• Develop, implement and provide a wide range of training and supervision across the Trust in line with national policy and local strategy.

For full job details please refer to enclosed job description.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse currently on NMC register.
• Degree (or working towards a Masters) or equivalent in-depth knowledge.

Desirable:

• Teaching Qualification
• Leadership Qualification
• Supervision training

Experience

Essential

• A minimum of 2 years as a safeguarding specialist.
• Experience in leading, managing and implementing change.
• Evidence of robust inter- agency and partnership working.
• Expert knowledge and experience of working with current legislation and developments within Child protection.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Full understanding of the statutory duty for the NHS Trust’s under section 11 of the Children Act 2004.
• Understanding of audit cycle.

Additional Information

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs. 

For more information, please see our People and OD Strategy 2026