Job summary
- Main area
- Safeguarding Children Clinical Nurse specialist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 337-NP-9518KS
- Employer
- London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northwick Park Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £55,524 - £62,652 PA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Nurse Specialist safeguarding children and young people
NHS AfC: Band 7
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Find out more about our Trust and why you should join us#WeAreLNWH
Find out more about Our HEART values
Find out more about our Trust Staff Benefits
Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put “Quality at our HEART”. Find out more about our ambitious strategy
We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.
Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.
- H onesty
- E quity
- A ccountability
- R espect
- T eamwork
These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.
LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
The post holder will provide expert clinical leadership and highly specialist advice on all matters relating to the safeguarding of children and young people across the Trust. Working as part of the children safeguarding team to ensure that all staff understand and meet their responsibility in relation to safeguarding the welfare of children in line with local and national guidance.
Working closely with the Named Nurse team, you will ensure the organisation fulfils its statutory requirements as defined by Working Together (2023) and the RCN Intercollegiate Document.
Based primarily at Northwick Park Hospital, you will join a forward-thinking team committed to the "Think Family" model and Transitional / Contextual Safeguarding, ensuring a child-centred and every contact counts approach is embedded across all Trust services.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a dynamic, motivated individual with substantial safeguarding expertise to join our proactive Integrated Safeguarding Children Team at LNWH.
This role involves ensuring robust safeguarding policies and information sharing is completed by working collaboratively with the Safeguarding Children team, Named nurses and doctors and multi agency partners to ensure the Trust meets its Safeguarding Children responsibilities and effectively Safeguarding children.
The post holder will be expected to provide highly specialist advice and clinical support to all healthcare staff in the organisation and to take a leading role in facilitating training and supervision in line with guidelines and legislation.
The successful candidate will be encouraged to develop their own knowledge and potential with support from our Integrated team.
Working for our organisation
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse: e.g. RGN,RSCN, RMN, RM, appropriate to the role
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) – Health Visitor or School Nurse.
- Educated to Degree level or equivalent.
- Level 3 safeguarding children training
- Evidence of professional development within the safeguarding children field
Desirable criteria
- Qualification in Mental Health for children and young people.
- Accredited safeguarding children supervision course.
- Teaching qualification.
- Studies at Post graduate level.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Specialist Knowledge of the Children Act, Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 and other relevant national guidance
- Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the connections between Children and Adult safeguarding
- A working knowledge of the Safeguarding children’s agenda, national and local key policy drivers and legislative framework.
- Experience of working with children and young people subject to Child in Need / Child Protection Plans and those Looked After
- Evidence of facilitating groups and /or delivering training.
- Experience in working collaboratively with other professionals and agencies with complex issues and in complex situations.
- Knowledge and understanding of care planning, risk assessment and management of complex cases.
- Experience of undertaking audit to support practice and service improvement
- Proven verbal and written communication skills
- Able to demonstrate leadership skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in an acute hospital setting.
- Experience of working in CAMHs or Tier 4 provision.
- Experience of working with adolescents in a health setting
- Knowledge of the wider health community.
- Domestic Abuse/MARAC experience
- Facilitation Skills training.
- Experience of report writing and serious incident investigation
Experience
Essential criteria
- 2 years experience working with children and young people subject to Child protection or looked after child plans
- Ability to challenge within a multi-agency arena in order to safeguard children
Skills, abilities and attributes
Essential criteria
- Able to effectively manage risk within a safeguarding context.
- Ability to provide high level reports.
- Ability to analyse issues and think critically.
- Be able to concentrate at high level when reviewing information, undertaking complex work and formulating responses to information provided.
- I.T skills, including Word and Excel.
- Skills and ability for line management for junior members of the team eg management of attendance, appraisals etc.
- Ability to represent Trust at multi-agency forums.
- Able to prioritise and work under pressure to deliver to targets and timescales.
Desirable criteria
- Having a working knowledge of Cerner (electronic patient record).
- Data base Management.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sandra Rose-Campbell
- Job title
- Named Nurse Safeguarding Children and young people
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07957 751758
- Additional information
Caroline Girling [email protected] 07970312655
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