Job summary
- Main area
- Safeguarding
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 214-CEN-7423157
- Employer
- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- King's Mill Hospital
- Town
- Sutton in Ashfield
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Named Nurse Safeguarding Adults
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.
Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
Job overview
Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking an exceptional, dynamic and experienced Named Nurse for Safeguarding Adults to lead and develop our safeguarding adult services within our acute hospital trust. This is a pivotal senior nursing leadership role, ensuring our organisation meets its statutory safeguarding responsibilities while promoting a culture of dignity, safety, and respect.
As the Named Nurse, you will provide expert advice, guidance, and assurance to clinical and non-clinical teams, the Board, and partner agencies. You will lead safeguarding adults strategy, policy development, training, audit, and quality improvement, ensuring our safeguarding response is both robust and compassionate.
Key Responsibilities:
· Provide professional leadership for safeguarding adults across the trust.
· Ensure compliance with the Care Act 2014, NHS safeguarding standards, CQC requirements, and intercollegiate competencies.
· Deliver specialist safeguarding supervision, advice, and case oversight on complex and high-risk cases.
· Lead on safeguarding adult reviews (SARs), Section 42 enquiries, and learning from incidents.
· Collaborate with multi-agency partners to strengthen safeguarding pathways and governance.
Apply now to join our team!
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential criteria
- A robust knowledge and understanding of the National Agenda around Safeguarding Adults and MCA
- A robust knowledge of Safeguarding Adult and MCA issues and training
- Leadership
- Clinical Governance
- Change management
- Standard setting and audit
- Guideline/protocol development
- Analytical skills
- Research skills
- Reflective skills
- Clinical supervision skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to self manage and meet tight deadlines
- Knowledge of adult
- Robust understanding of the Think Family Safeguarding
- Agenda safeguarding
Desirable criteria
- Complaints management
- Budgetary and resource management
- Interagency working
- Court attendance experience
- Experience in participating in serious case reviews
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional Registration ie Registered Nurse or AHP/SW
- Master’s Degree (or working towards a Master’s) or equivalent in-depth knowledge
Further Training
Essential criteria
- Teaching qualification/ or evidence of teaching experience
Desirable criteria
- Management Certificate/Diploma
Experience
Essential criteria
- Awareness of clinical and policy developments in the safeguarding children & adults agenda.
- Significant experience at a senior grade
Desirable criteria
- Recent experience of adults services
Contractual Requirements
Essential criteria
- A full driving licence
Applicant requirements
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
- Lisa Nixon
- Job title
- Head of Safeguarding & Vulnerabilities
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01623 622515
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