# Deputy Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North Bristol NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-named-nurse-for-safeguarding-children/d6d4e813-6a6c-4180-ac43-df8d062aab34 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-named-nurse-for-safeguarding-children/d6d4e813-6a6c-4180-ac43-df8d062aab34.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** North Bristol NHS Trust - **Location:** Southmead Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday, multiple site working) - **Closing date:** 2026-11-10T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-20T11:10:33.691Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Bristol/Bristol/Bristol_NHS_Foundation_Trust_BFT/Safeguarding/Safeguarding-v8346654 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8346654?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nbt.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview 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. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Support the Named Nurse and Lead for Safeguarding Children in providing professional leadership for the safeguarding children agenda. Provide expert advice and support in complex safeguarding situations, including risk assessment, escalation and decision-making. Lead and contribute to safeguarding children training, supervision and workforce development. Line manage and provide professional support to members of the safeguarding team. Develop and maintain effective relationships with clinical teams, senior leaders and multi-agency safeguarding partners. Represent the Trust at relevant multi-agency safeguarding meetings, forums and partnership arrangements. Contribute to Rapid Reviews, Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and other statutory safeguarding reviews. Support the management of allegations against staff and liaison with Local Authority Designated Officers (LADO). Contribute to the development, implementation and review of safeguarding policies, procedures and guidance. Lead identified areas of the safeguarding children workplan and support service development and continuous improvement. Support safeguarding governance and assurance through audit, performance monitoring, data analysis and reporting. Contribute to quarterly and annual safeguarding reporting and provide assurance on the quality and effectiveness of safeguarding arrangements. Promote learning from safeguarding incidents, reviews, audits and research and support its translation into clinical practice. Provide professional challenge and influence practice to ensure that children and young people are effectively safeguarded across all Trust services. Promote the voice and lived experience of children, young people and families within safeguarding practice and service development. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### 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 ### 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 ## Documents - [dbs charges information (pdf, 71.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3004) - [dbs charges information (png, 132.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2398) - [deputy named nurse for safeguarding children jd/ps (pdf, 304.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10672716) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.