Lead Named Nurse Safeguarding Children

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

The closing date is 15 February 2026

Are you an enthusiastic, and committed nurse with a wealth of experience in safeguarding?

Do you Think Family?

If so, we are interested in you

We are looking for a nurse to lead the Children’s agenda in Safeguarding at CWPT, a multi-faceted Trust covering three Local Authorities.

This is a highly skilled role.

We are appointing someone in our Named Nurse role who will lead the Trust Safeguarding Children’s agenda with innovation, knowledge, passion and dedication. You will need a strategic approach, with excellent communication and leadership skills.

If that person is you, we would like to meet you.

This role supports the Head of Safeguarding and the safeguarding team. The role entails working across the local health and social care economies to prevent harm, fostering and facilitating multi-professional interagency working in respect of safeguarding children.

The role is that of a highly developed clinical specialist for safeguarding children within the Trust, ensuring the Trust implements the elements of the Children Act 1989/2004, Working Together 2023, Children and Social Work Act 2017 and the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 in respect of safeguarding children. These obligations are fulfilled by providing clinical leadership across the field of safeguarding children.

The scope of the post includes liaison across agencies in the contribution and development of child safeguarding practice, supervision, education, accountability, governance, and provision of expert advice based upon mandatory and statutory frameworks and guidelines. Working collaboratively in providing high quality evidence-based services to support the development of effective inter-disciplinary and inter-agency relationships with other NHS Trusts, Local Authorities, Police, and other statutory and voluntary agencies in order to minimise the risks to children.

The post holder is required to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information where significant barriers to acceptance need to be overcome using the highest levels of interpersonal and communication skills.

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• Generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• Excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• Discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• Wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• Staff networks and support groups

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

Please see Job Description attached which details main responsibilities including:

• Training to support the Head of Safeguarding and safeguarding team in identifying the safeguarding children training needs for the organisation
• Promoting Safeguarding to promote the safeguarding of Children within the organisation
• Specialist Knowledge to apply knowledge of the current legislation around promoting and safeguarding the health, welfare, and safety of children
• Advice and Support to promote good professional practice within the Trust around safeguarding children by oversight of the Named professional staff when they are providing…