Deputy Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children: Sponsorship Available

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We are looking for an experienced safeguarding professional to join the newly formed Bristol NHS Foundation Trust as Deputy Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children.

Working closely with the Named Nurse and Lead for Safeguarding Children, the postholder will play a key role in providing specialist safeguarding leadership, advice and assurance across the organisation. This is an opportunity to work across a diverse range of acute and specialist services and to help shape consistent, high-quality safeguarding practice as our new Trust develops.

We are looking for an experienced, motivated and compassionate practitioner with significant safeguarding children expertise, strong leadership and communication skills, and the confidence to influence, challenge, and support practice across a complex organisation.

Main duties of the job

The Deputy Named Nurse will support the Named Nurse and Lead for Safeguarding Children in the delivery of the Trust’s statutory safeguarding responsibilities. The postholder will provide expert advice and professional leadership to staff managing complex safeguarding concerns and promote high standards of safeguarding practice across the organisation.

Key responsibilities will include providing safeguarding supervision; supporting the development and delivery of safeguarding training; contributing to policies, procedures and service development; and supporting safeguarding assurance, audit, performance monitoring and reporting.

The postholder will contribute to statutory safeguarding reviews, including Rapid Reviews and Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews, and will support the management of allegations against staff where there is a safeguarding children element.

A key part of the role will be developing strong relationships with clinical teams, senior leaders and multi-agency partners, representing the Trust within relevant safeguarding forums and contributing to a culture of professional curiosity, constructive challenge, learning and continuous improvement.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

  • Registration with NMC Part 1 Children’s Nurse or Part 3 SCPHN (Health Visitor or School Health Nurse)
  • Masters level qualification in a safeguarding field or demonstrable equivalent experience
  • Post-registration training in safeguarding
  • Clinical leadership skills/qualifications
  • Teaching qualification

Knowledge, skills and abilities

Essential

  • Court skills
  • Supervision and management skills
  • Ability to lead, develop, deliver, and evaluate children’s safeguarding training within BFT, and multi-agency partnerships
  • Skill in evaluating training effectiveness at different levels and producing reports
  • High-level teaching and communication skills for diverse audiences
  • Brings a strong blend of sophisticated theoretical safeguarding knowledge and substantial practical experience in related work procedures and practices, exhibiting a high degree of proficiency in safeguarding
  • Systematic understanding and expertise in safeguarding children with up-to-date critical awareness of current issues, legislation and best practice
  • Ability to use, analyse and apply research findings to ensure best practice and improve service delivery
  • Demonstrates a strong capacity for critical judgement in the context of exceptionally complex safeguarding circumstances
  • Engagement in clinical and safeguarding supervision

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in delivering induction, refresher, and specific safeguarding training (e.g. neglect, FGM, domestic abuse, PREVENT) at levels in line with the Intercollegiate Document
  • Proficiency in ensuring policy and procedure accessibility
  • IT skills for developing and delivering teaching programmes
  • Up-to-date knowledge of safeguarding research and its implications
  • Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information appropriately
  • Proficiency in using various communication mediums (telephone, emails, etc)

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Commitment to professional development
  • Maintain personal professional registration
  • Adherence to professional codes of conduct and employer policies
  • Ability to establish and maintain professional networks
  • Embrace the core values of the organisation and demonstrate an attitude which respects and values patients and their relatives and carers, and actively promotes the wellbeing of staff
  • Recognises the harmful effects of discrimination and inequality on health and outcomes for adults and children. Visibly promotes and drives equality, diversity and inclusion
  • Flexible in style and approach to the role to best support individual team members at a time of change
  • Frequent concentration required for analysing complex information, writing reports, and conducting meetings
  • Safeguarding work necessitates flexible and unpredictable work patterns, requiring frequent and sometimes prolonged periods of intense concentration
  • Ability to travel to other sites and attend external partnership meetings as required

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 10 November 2026

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