Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse

Are you an experienced and passionate registered nurse with a commitment to safeguarding children and families? We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Band 7 Safeguarding Children Nurse Specialist to join our dedicated Safeguarding All Ages team, supporting the delivery of high-quality safeguarding services across Hertfordshire.

This is an exciting opportunity to work collaboratively with healthcare professionals, local authority partners, education, police, and voluntary agencies to ensure that children, young people and adults at risk receive safe, effective and compassionate care.

As a Safeguarding Children Nurse Specialist, you will provide expert advice, leadership, education and support to Public Health Nursing and Clinical specialist teams, promoting best practice and ensuring compliance with national safeguarding legislation, statutory guidance and local safeguarding arrangements. You will also be part of the Joint Agency Response Rota for unexpected child death.

Proposed interview date: 11-Aug-2026

• Provide specialist safeguarding children advice and high-quality supervisory support to staff within HCT by providing child protection supervision to health visitors/school nurses and allied health professionals. Contributing to an ethos in which reflective practice and self-questioning are accepted and actively promoted.
• Be part of the Joint Agency Response for Unexpected Child Deaths in Hertfordshire.
• Be part of the safeguarding children duty rota that offers support and guidance to HCT staff where there are concerns regarding the safeguarding of children.
• Ensure effective communication and support and a cohesive approach is applied across the organization within its remit to safeguard children.
• Contribute to, facilitate and deliver safeguarding children training within HCT and multi‑agency settings. Monitor systems that are in place to audit training needs, training and evaluate outcomes.
• Support with any legal requests or records requests that may also include the support of HCT staff in the development of court statements.
• Be responsible for research of cases for Hertfordshire MARAC and MACE and act as the HCT representative for MARAC meetings.

We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds and ages.

• 1st Level Registered Nurse with evidence of further training to degree level.
• Evidence of self‑managed continued professional development.
• Teaching qualification.
• Supervisory qualification or equivalent.
• Qualifications relevant to safeguarding.
• Advanced knowledge of key legislation and documents relevant to safeguarding children; demonstrates knowledge and application of theoretical frameworks used in safeguarding.
• Community Specialist Practitioner (SCPHN) or equivalent post‑registration qualification.

• Previous experience working with families, children and young people.
• Clinical experience of safeguarding children.
• Effective contribution to local multi‑agency groups, systems and networks.
• Experience of working under pressure and to deadlines.
• Experience as a clinical supervisor.
• Delivery of safeguarding children training to health staff and some aspect of multi‑agency training.
• An understanding and experience of court procedures.

• Ability to respond positively to change.
• Excellent communication and listening skills with some understanding of basic counselling skills.
• The ability to transfer the principles of clinical effectiveness into clinical practice.
• Ability to analyse issues and think critically.
• Excellent standard of report writing and record keeping.
• Ability to support staff in decision‑making processes in complex circumstances.
• Ability to work well within multi‑professional and multi‑agency forums.
• Credibility as a clinical expert.
• Innovative and dynamic.
• Able to recognise own stress and take measures to manage it.
• Tactful and diplomatic in negotiating skills.
• Ability to manage complex and stressful situations and issues at local organisational and clinical levels in a calm manner.
• Awareness of issues relevant to black & minority ethnic families and other potentially disadvantaged or socially excluded groups.
• Confidence to challenge colleagues appropriately in difficult situations.

• Willingness to uphold the Trust's values.
• Eligibility to live and work in the UK.
• A full valid driving licence and access to a car to use for business purposes is essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

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.

£49,387 to £56,515 a year pro rata.