Safeguarding Children Clinical Nurse Specialist: Sponsorship Available

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our well-established safeguarding children’s nursing team. You will be required to provide specialist safeguarding advice, education and support to health care professionals and patients.

As a nurse specialist you will ensure that the needs of vulnerable children are recognised and acted upon. The role is a patient facing role and you will have daily contact with vulnerable children and their families. You will be required to undertake direct safeguarding assessments with children and families and ensure that the right support and services are put in place to meet their needs. You will be working side by side with clinical teams. Accessibility and visibility across all trust areas of the post holder is vital.

You will work closely with professionals and external partner organisations. You will be required to attend safeguarding strategy meetings and be able to be part of risk management decision making and planning. Critical thinking, analytical processing and adaptability to changing circumstances are essential requirements.

You will be expected to create an environment of continuous quality improvement and develop safeguarding practice across services; this will be through delivering safeguarding children training, visible leadership, knowledge and expertise in all aspects of safeguarding children.

Main duties of the job

  • Act as a role model, demonstrating high standards of care and providing expert and professional clinical leadership in safeguarding related matters.
  • Demonstrate appropriate expert practice and highly specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care.
  • To work within the safeguarding nursing team in managing and overseeing practitioners and their cases of vulnerable children and families whilst working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised care.
  • Directly supervise, support, and advise clinical teams, by the provision of specialist knowledge and advice in relation to the safeguarding of children.
  • To identify vulnerable children, young people and families early and provide effective programmes of support and care that protects and promotes their health and wellbeing.
  • To contribute to child protection case conferences and strategy meetings in order to plan effectively to ensure optimum outcomes for vulnerable children.
  • Participate in the delivery of safeguarding children training.
  • Provide regular supervision to practitioners in the acute setting of the Trust

Person Specification

Education and experience

Essential

  • Registered Nurse RN child or
  • Community Public Health Nurse (HV/SN)

Desirable

  • ENB / MSC in Child Protection
  • ENB 998 or Teaching Qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive post registration experience within children service
  • Relevant experience of working in child protection field.

Desirable

  • Management responsibilities
  • Previous work on interagency committees
  • Clinical Supervisor in Child Protection

skills and abilities

Essential

  • Awareness of recent research and developments relating to Child Protection work and its implications for practice.
  • Knowledge of the current Government guidelines relating to Child Protection work.
  • An understanding of the implications of the Children Act 1989 & 2004 in relation to Child Protection work.
  • Awareness of the effects of culture and family dynamics on parenting and child rearing practices, and of the implication of these for Child Protection work.
  • An understanding of the roles and responsibilities of other statutory and voluntary agencies in Child Protection.
  • To have awareness and knowledge of issues in clinical supervision and consultation when working with professionals and lay staff.

Desirable

  • Understanding the principles of a learning organisation
  • Understanding of local authority policy and practice
  • Understanding of current NHS policy
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office
  • Experience of contributing to research projects

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 October 2026

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