Band 8a Named Nurse Safeguarding

Are you an experienced safeguarding professional ready to take the next step into a pivotal leadership role? HCRG Care Group is seeking a Named Nurse for Safeguarding to provide expert guidance, strong leadership, and professional oversight to ensure our organisation meets its responsibilities to safeguard children, young people, and adults with care and support needs. This is an exciting opportunity to influence safeguarding strategy, support the development of specialist practice, and be an integral part of the organisation’s Safeguarding Team.

• Support the Safeguarding Lead to ensure the organisation meets its responsibilities in safeguarding children, young people, and adults with care and support needs.
• Deputise for the Safeguarding Lead when required.
• Work collaboratively as a core member of the Safeguarding Team.
• Provide leadership, management, and supervision to Safeguarding Specialist Nurses.
• Support and facilitate the ongoing professional development of the Specialist Safeguarding Nursing team.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of the wider safeguarding agenda across HCRG Care Group.
• Build strong partnerships with internal teams, external agencies, and multi‑agency safeguarding partners.
• Produce high‑quality written reports, reviews, and safeguarding documentation as required.

• Registered on Part 1 of the NMC register as a Registered Children’s Nurse and/or Registered Adult Nurse.
• Registered on Part 3 of the NMC register as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse, with a programme focused on children and families.
• Completed post‑registration safeguarding or looked‑after‑children training (including law, policy, and practice at Level 2 or PGDip or equivalent).

• Excellent IT literacy and confident use of digital systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent literacy, analytical, and report‑writing abilities.
• Able to work effectively with children, young people, and adults.
• Ability to travel across the locality as required.

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in healthcare roles relating to babies, children, young people, and safeguarding/children in care.
• Experience working as a Safeguarding Specialist Nurse within a safeguarding team.
• Proven experience producing detailed and comprehensive reports and reviews.
• Demonstrated experience working effectively across multi‑agency and organisational boundaries.

• Thorough understanding of safeguarding legislation for children, young people, and adults, including the Mental Capacity Act.
• Understanding of the complex health needs of adults, children, and looked‑after children.
• Awareness of confidentiality principles, information‑sharing legislation, and best practice.
• Good understanding of health promotion and public health practice.

• £55,690‑£62,682 (Band 8a AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving access to discounts on everyday purchases such as grocery shopping, cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face‑to‑face help with mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges to post‑trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through the ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture encouraging the implementation of ideas that help deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ring‑fenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards, with the majority of rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

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