Named Nurse Safeguarding Children

Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children

The closing date is 25 January 2026.

The Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children and Lead for Domestic Abuse and Child Protection - Information Systems (CP-IS) plays a pivotal role in ensuring University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Trust (UHBW) delivers safe and effective care, adhering to the Human Rights Act (1998), Children Act 1989/2004, Domestic Abuse Act (2021), Mental Capacity Act (MCA, 2005), and the Mental Capacity Amendment Act (2019) and Care Act (2014).

This incorporates any legislative statutory guidance e.g. Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for more in-depth details of the job description.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

Leadership and Management

Education, Training and Supervision

Communication and Coordination

Audit, Monitoring and Research

Governance, Policy & Service Development

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for more in-depth details of the above domains.

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as 'Good' overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond.

As a forward-thinking multi-award‑winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world‑leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them.

Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

UHBW Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and to protecting them from all risks of harm. The organisation expects all staff to work to national and local children and adult safeguarding policies and procedures. The trust expects all staff and volunteers to be dementia aware and to support the care of people with dementia.

All staff are expected to share this commitment and meet the competencies relevant to their role.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for details.

• Has a minimum of 2 years practice working in a safeguarding role with responsibility for giving advice and support to health professionals
• Advanced knowledge of safeguarding legislative frameworks for children
• Experience and advanced knowledge of managing complex safeguarding concerns in a multiagency context, for example domestic abuse, neglect, child exploitation
• Experience of quality improvement approaches
• Experience of the development and delivery of training content
• Experience of assessment of risk and information sharing for statutory and non‑statutory processes in safeguarding children. For example, strategy discussions and ICPC, MARAC & MASH
• Excellent knowledge of contemporary safeguarding issues for children and families
• Experience of line managing staff
• Experience of/ participation in, statutory review processes. For example, Rapid Reviews and Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews
• Experience of providing safeguarding supervision

• Ability to build professional relationships with multi‑agency colleagues
• Ability to…