Job overview
Join Our Safeguarding All Ages Team
Are you an experienced and passionate registered nurse with a commitment to safeguarding children and families? We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Band 7 Safeguarding Children Nurse Specialist to join our dedicated Safeguarding All Ages team, supporting the delivery of high-quality safeguarding services across Hertfordshire.
This is an exciting opportunity to work collaboratively with healthcare professionals, local authority partners, education, police, and voluntary agencies to ensure that children, young people and adults at risk receive safe, effective and compassionate care.
As a Safeguarding Children Nurse Specialist, you will provide expert advice, leadership, education and support to Public Health Nursing and Clinical specialist teams, promoting best practice and ensuring compliance with national safeguarding legislation, statutory guidance and local safeguarding arrangements. You will also be part of the Joint Agency Response Rota for unexpected child death.
*Proposed interview date: 11-Aug-2026*
Main duties of the job
- To provide specialist safeguarding children advice and high-quality supervisory support to staff within HCT by providing child protection supervision to health visitors/school nurses and allied health professionals. Contributing to an ethos in which reflective practice and self-questioning are accepted and actively promoted.
- To be part of the Joint Agency Response for Unexpected Child Deaths in Hertfordshire
- To be part of the safeguarding children duty rota that offers support and guidance to HCT staff where there are concerns regarding the safeguarding of children
- To ensure effective communication and support and a cohesive approach is applied across the organization within its remit to safeguard children.
- To contribute to, facilitate and provide any safeguarding children training within HCT and multi-agency settings. To monitor systems that are in place to audit training needs, training and evaluate outcomes
- To support with any legal requests or records requests that may also include the support of HCT staff in the development of court statements.
- To be responsible for research of cases for Hertfordshire MARAC and MACE and to be an HCT representative for MARAC meetings.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more details
We are committed to supporting flexible working options for staff, wherever possible, and welcome discussions on flexible working patterns to support our staff to maintain a healthy work life balance.
The use of AI is monitored and if you have used it then you are required to declare this, as well as what type of AI tools you have used and for what purpose. We reserve the right to further test your individual knowledge and skills in relation to the requirements for the post through robust and thorough interview and assessment.
Person specification
Other requirements
Essential
- Willingness to uphold the Trust’s values
- Eligible to live and work in the UK
- A full valid driving licence and access to a car to use for business purposes is essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Personal qualities
Essential
- Credibility as a clinical expert
- Innovative and dynamic
- Able to recognise own stress and take measures to manage it
- Tactful and diplomatic in negotiating skills
- Ability to manage complex and stressful situations and issues at local organisational and clinical levels in a calm manner
- Awareness of issues relevant to black & minority ethnic families and other potentially disadvantaged or socially excluded groups
- Confidence to challenge colleagues appropriately in difficult situations
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to respond positively to change
- Excellent communication and listening skills with some understanding of basic counselling skills
- The ability to transfer the principles of clinical effectiveness into clinical practice
- Ability to analyse issues and think critically
- Excellent standard of report writing and record keeping
- Ability to support staff in decision making processes in complex circumstances
- Ability to work well within multi-professional and multi-agency forums
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Previous experience working with families, children and young people
- Clinical experience of safeguarding children
- Effective contribution to local multi-agency groups, systems and networks.
- Experience of working under pressure and to deadlines.
- Experience as a clinical supervisor
- Delivery of safeguarding children training to health staff and of some aspect of multi-agency training
- An understanding and experience of court procedures
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- 1st Level Registered Nurse with evidence of further training to degree level
- Evidence of self-managed continued professional development
- Teaching qualification
- Supervisory qualification or equivalent
- Qualifications relevant to safeguarding
- Advanced knowledge of key legislation and documents relevant to safeguarding children, Demonstrates knowledge and application of theoretical frameworks used in safeguarding
- Community Specialist Practitioner (SCPHN) or equivalent post registration qualification
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This advert is for Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse with Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust in Welwyn Garden City, East of England, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Clinical nurse specialist role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 per annum, pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 28 Jul 2026.
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