Safeguarding Specialist Nurse​/Professional

Overview

Lincolnshire Community Health Services has an exciting opportunity for an exceptional professional to apply for the post of Specialist Safeguarding Nurse/Practitioner. As a Trust we are committed to delivering safe, effective and compassionate care to our patients and delivering excellence in safeguarding practice. Our Safeguarding and Vulnerabilities Team are looking for a self-motivated and enthusiastic individual with post-registration safeguarding experience, who is passionate and committed to improving outcomes for both vulnerable children and adults.

LCHS are part of the Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals Group (LCHG) working in partnership with United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals to ensure high quality of care across Lincolnshire community and hospital settings. Since the formation of the Group both safeguarding teams now work in partnership providing greater oversight of our vulnerable client groups.

About us

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.

At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS' workforce.

LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an 'earn while you learn' apprenticeship programme. Visit our Learning and Development page to find out more.

• To support the Group Director of Safeguarding, Named Nurse Safeguarding Adults and Group Named Nurse Safeguarding Children in the execution of statutory roles and responsibilities.
• To promote quality and effectiveness of health workers responses to safeguard children and adults at risk.
• To work as a specialist practitioner providing supervision, advice, and training to staff around safeguarding.
• To take part in developing and implementing policies and procedures and audit in partnership with other organisations.
• To demonstrate active leadership skills in the management of safeguarding within a multiagency setting.
• To interpret and apply relevant, up to date research to clinical practice in consultation with the senior safeguarding team.
• To promote high standards of practice relating to the safety and welfare of children and adults at risk in all areas of service provision.

Date posted: 19 February 2026

• Pay scheme:
  Agenda for Change
• Band:
  Band 7
• Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 per annum
• Contract:
  
  Permanent
• Working pattern:
  Full-time, Flexible working
• Location:
  
  Beech House, Witham Park, Waterside South, Lincoln, LN5 7JH

• Professional Registration
• Post Graduate Safeguarding education
• Experience of managing multi-agency working / relationships
• Evidence of the proactive involvement in the supervision and development of members of the multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of working in an acute / Community Trust

• Supervision / Mentoring qualification
• Experience of developing and delivering educational programs

• Ability to represent the organisation within safeguarding meetings
• Able to make operational judgments
• Effective written and oral communications

• Ability to manage highly complex problems
• Experience in undertaking audit

• Sound working knowledge of safeguarding and its application within a community / acute care organisation
• Sound working knowledge regarding the recognition and impact of abuse and neglect, capacity, and consent
• Evidence of specialist professional knowledge in the Safeguarding agenda supplemented by specialist training and CPD
• Understanding of national and local policy in relation to vulnerable adults and domestic abuse

• Have a high level of understanding of court and criminal justice systems

• Experience of managing multi-agency working / relationships
• Evidence of the proactive involvement in the supervision and development of members of the multi-disciplinary team
• Evidence of involvement and leadership in teaching and mentoring learners and training needs analysis

• Experience of developing and…