Named Nurse Safeguarding Children

1. Leadership Act as the Trusts Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children, providing visible, expert leadership and promoting safeguarding as everyones responsibility. Provide professional challenge, strategic direction and highly specialist advice on complex, sensitive and high-risk safeguarding children and child protection matters. Embed, monitor and assure robust safeguarding arrangements within clinical governance, risk and quality frameworks, including compliance with legislation, statutory guidance, CQC standards, ICB indicators, NHS England assurance requirements, Section 11 duties and contractual standards.

Lead, implement and evaluate a Trust-wide safeguarding supervision framework that supports sound decision-making, reflective practice, staff wellbeing and improved outcomes. Support practitioners preparing court or witness statements and multi-agency reports, and attending court, strategy meetings or conferences, ensuring lawful and secure information sharing. Work with Named and Designated Professionals, service leads, local authorities and partner agencies to embed a holistic, trauma-informed Think Family approach.

Lead the development, implementation, review and monitoring of safeguarding children policies, procedures and guidance across the Trust. Analyse safeguarding data, risks, incidents and trends; communicate evidence-based options; escalate concerns; and support quality assurance, audit and improvement activity. Represent the Corporate Safeguarding Team at Trust-wide meetings and contribute to quarterly and annual reports through governance structures to Board level. Line manage the Safeguarding Childrens Team and provide management and professional supervision to safeguarding practitioners.

Coordinate timely organisational responses and learning from Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews, Safeguarding Adult Reviews, Domestic Homicide Reviews, Child Death Overview Panel outcomes and safeguarding-related Patient Safety Incident Investigations, in line with PSIRF. Promote effective partnership working with statutory and voluntary agencies and ensure appropriate Trust participation in safeguarding meetings and case conferences. Champion the voice of children and young people and the engagement of parents and carers, while promoting equitable, culturally sensitive, non-discriminatory practice.

Maintain professional knowledge through research, networks and supervision, uphold confidentiality, equality, professional standards and the relevant code of conduct.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust