Safeguarding Specialist Practitioner - Children and Young

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 04 March 2026

Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking a dedicated and experienced Specialist Practitioner to join our team, focusing on safeguarding children and young people. This role is pivotal in ensuring excellence in safeguarding practices throughout the Trust.

• Safeguarding Excellence: Ensure robust safeguarding processes within the Trust's clinical governance framework.
• Expert Advice: Provide expert advice and support on safeguarding issues to the Trust.
• Clinical Supervision: Actively maintain safeguarding clinical supervision processes.
• Staff Support: Assist staff with day-to-day safeguarding concerns and multi-agency liaison and planning.
• Service Delivery: Deliver high-quality safeguarding expertise, offering professional advice, support, and education to the multi-professional team.
• Communication: Convey and present complex information both written and verbally, formally and informally.
• Policy Development: Collaborate with Named Professionals to develop evidence-based patient care policies and procedures.
• Training Strategy: Implement and deliver the Trust-wide safeguarding training strategy, ensuring all staff receive the necessary education and training.
• Evaluation: Record, monitor, and evaluate the effectiveness of the safeguarding training strategy.

If you are passionate about safeguarding, we would love to hear from you.

Apply now to make a difference in healthcare!

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other.

We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

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Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

• A robust knowledge and understanding of the National Agenda
• A robust knowledge of the Think Family Safeguarding agenda
• A robust knowledge of Safeguarding Children & Adult issues and training.
• Clinical Governance
• Change management
• Standard setting and audit
• Analytical, research and reflective skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to self manage and meet tight deadlines
• Complaints management
• Interagency working
• Court attendance experience
• Experience in participating in Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews / Safeguarding Adults Reviews

• RGN / RSCN (RNCB) / Social worker / AHP
• Degree in related subject or equivalent in depth knowledge
• Specialist Practitioner - Health Visiting, School Nursing or community nursing
• Evidence of working towards masters level qualification or equivalent

• Teaching qualification
• Safeguarding Supervision training

• Awareness of clinical and policy developments in the safeguarding children & adults agenda
• Significant experience at a senior level
• Recent experience of children's or adults services

• A full driving licence

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£47,810 to £54,710 a year (pro rata)