Hampshire Children's MASH Specialist Nurse

Job summary

We are seeking a compassionate, skilled, and experienced Band 7 Specialist Safeguarding Nurse to join the Hampshire Children's Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH). This is a unique and rewarding opportunity to work at the heart of safeguarding, where timely, high-quality decision-making can change lives and improve children's outcomes.

As a MASH Specialist Safeguarding Nurse, you will play a pivotal role in researching and assessing health information and you will work with partner agencies to support the protection and wellbeing of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. Working within a dynamic, multi-disciplinary environment, you will contribute your clinical expertise to inform risk assessments, promote early intervention, and ensure safeguarding concerns are addressed quickly and effectively, working within existing legal frameworks.

You will work alongside another Specialist Nurse to jointly lead and manage the skilled Hampshire Children's MASH team comprising of practitioners and admin support.

You will bring strong clinical judgement, excellent communication skills, a passion for safeguarding, the ability to work collaboratively and your ability to be flexible and responsive. Experience in safeguarding, children's Health services, or public health is highly desirable and essential to support with improving vulnerable children's outcomes. You will have experience in auditing and providing clear, insightful reports to identify and improve service delivery.

Main duties of the job

*Ensure the Trust meets its statutory obligations to safeguard children, complying with legislation, policy and procedures and relevant frameworks.

*Work within safeguarding frameworks to support the Local Authoritie's role to investigate safeguarding concerns and manage risk where children and young people have experienced or are likely to experience significant harm.

*The post holder will be part of a co-located multi-agency team including police officers, social workers, other health professionals from provider organisations, education representatives, and others.

*The post holder will be required to maintain supportive and constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, specifically health professionals from various services and disciplines.

*Through liaison and dialogue identify and collate and assess the relevant health information to add to the multi-agency risk assessment.

*Record, interpret, assess, and present health information and issues that can impact the risk or need assessment of child/children from a range of health perspectives. This may involve sharing relevant information on the parents or carers and ensuring that the information is processed fairly and proportionally.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Details

• Date posted: 02 June 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 7
• Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year Based on full time hours
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 348-COR-11458
• Job locations: Havant Civic Offices, Civic Centre Road, Havant, Hampshire, PO9 2AX, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.