Nursing Senior Manager -Deputy Designated Nurse Safeguarding: Sponsorship Available

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

Job summary

Job Overview

NHS South Yorkshire
Integrated Care Board is seeking an enthusiastic individual with a passion
for improving outcomes for children, young people and care leavers to join
our Safeguarding Team as Deputy Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children
and Looked After Children.

This strategic role
provides safeguarding leadership, advice and assurance, supporting the ICB to
meet its statutory responsibilities in line with the NHS England Safeguarding
Accountability and Assurance Framework (SAAF). Working with designated
professionals, commissioned services and system partners, you will strengthen
safeguarding governance, provider assurance, partnership working and quality
improvement. You will support learning from reviews and audits, identify
risks and help ensure childrens voices inform commissioning and system
improvement.

We are looking for
an experienced safeguarding practitioner with strong leadership, analytical
and influencing skills, able to provide advice and professional challenge.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties and Responsibilities

The postholder will:

  • Support the Designated Nurse in providing strategic and professional safeguarding leadership across the South Yorkshire health and care system.
  • Provide expert advice, guidance and constructive professional challenge on complex, sensitive or contentious safeguarding matters.
  • Support the ICB to fulfil its statutory safeguarding responsibilities and provide assurance in line with the NHS England Safeguarding Accountability and Assurance Framework.
  • Develop and maintain robust safeguarding governance and assurance arrangements across NHS-funded and commissioned services.
  • Work collaboratively with designated professionals, NHS providers, local authorities, safeguarding partnerships and other system partners to strengthen safeguarding arrangements and improve outcomes.
    • Build effective relationships across organisational boundaries, influencing strategic policy, service development and commissioning decisions.

    Contribute to the development and monitoring of safeguarding standards, key performance indicators, quality measures and improvement plans

  • Analyse complex qualitative and quantitative information to identify themes, risks, gaps and opportunities for system improvement.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • The post holder will have significant experience in Nursing / Quality service assurance / Safeguarding Children or Adults as appropriate.
  • Significant experience of managing projects and delivering them within agreed timescales and budgets.
  • Experience of leading change projects.
  • Experience of providing support and input into complex programmes.
  • Experience in managing stakeholders, taking account of their levels of influence, and particular interests.
  • Experience of preparing briefing papers and correspondence at project board level.
  • Experience of managing a team.
  • Must understand the background and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this.
  • Must understand the relationship between the Department of Health & Social Care and individual provider and commissioning organisations.

Qualifications

Essential

  • The postholder must be a Registered Nurse in relation to Safeguarding Children posts or a Registered Professional in relation to Safeguarding Adults posts.
  • Educated to Masters level in a relevant area of academic practice or equivalent experience working at a commensurate band / level.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to role.
  • Member of relevant professional body

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: 25 September 2026

To apply for this job please visit www.jobs.nhs.uk.