Safeguarding Nurse for Children and Adults

Job overview

You are invited to apply for an exciting Band 7 Safeguarding Professional role within our dynamic and supportive team.

We are seeking experienced practitioner with strong leadership skills, good safeguarding knowledge, and a commitment to improving outcomes for children, young people, and adults at risk.

This role offers the opportunity to influence practice, shape strategic priorities, and provide expert guidance across the organisation. If you are passionate about driving high‑quality safeguarding standards and ready to take the next step in your professional journey.

Every day you will be using your transferrable knowledge and skills to support the diverse workforce in Oxford Health to safeguard adults and children.

The role will predominantly be adult workforce facing but a strong think family approach will need to be implemented within the role.

The role is very diverse and will include delivering training at L3 , facilitating regular supervision, and supporting consultations with staff will be part of your weekly work.

We are a strong team who receive positive feedback from our colleagues and external partners about our compassionate delivery of the safeguarding work we support and the effectiveness of our work. You could be part of the team who achieve positive outcomes for the people we support and our workforce.

Main duties of the job

We’re looking for an experienced professional with  knowledge of domestic abuse, MARAC processes, self -neglect, exploitation, or wider safeguarding themes to help drive safe, effective practice across the Trust. You’ll provide expert advice, support staff, lead training, shape policy, and strengthen multi‑agency working to ensure robust protection for children and adults at risk.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To work closely with the Deputy Head of Safeguarding (adults/children), line manager, and the wider safeguarding service and other relevant parties (partner agencies) to provide a highly developed specialist Safeguarding Service to Trust staff which is consistent and co-ordinated in approach • To support safe and effective practice by working in partnership with staff and line managers to address performance management issues with the aim of achieving improved outcomes for children and adults at risk Policy/ Strategy Responsibility • To work in partnership with colleagues in the Trust to develop and implement safeguarding children and adult policies in the Trust that reflect relevant legislation, national guidance and Local Safeguarding Board partnerships’ policies and guidance • To work in partnership with Trust Managers and Team leaders to ensure procedures, policies and guidelines are distributed • To contribute to the design, development, co-ordination, delivery and evaluation of the safeguarding training strategy and programme