Safeguarding Children Clinical Nurse Specialist
Accepting applications until: 25-Oct-2026 22:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 25-Oct-2026 22:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- St Thomas site
- Address
- Westminster Bridge Road
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday: 09.00 - 17.00 hours)
Salary
- Salary
- £58,133 - £65,261 p.a. inclusive of HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Safeguarding Children
- Interview date
- 11/11/2026
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our well-established safeguarding children’s nursing team. You will be required to provide specialist safeguarding advice, education and support to health care professionals and patients.
As a nurse specialist you will ensure that the needs of vulnerable children are recognised and acted upon. The role is a patient facing role and you will have daily contact with vulnerable children and their families. You will be required to undertake direct safeguarding assessments with children and families and ensure that the right support and services are put in place to meet their needs. You will be working side by side with clinical teams. Accessibility and visibility across all trust areas of the post holder is vital.
You will work closely with professionals and external partner organisations. You will be required to attend safeguarding strategy meetings and be able to be part of risk management decision making and planning. Critical thinking, analytical processing and adaptability to changing circumstances are essential requirements.
You will be expected to create an environment of continuous quality improvement and develop safeguarding practice across services; this will be through delivering safeguarding children training, visible leadership, knowledge and expertise in all aspects of safeguarding children.
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- Act as a role model, demonstrating high standards of care and providing expert and professional clinical leadership in safeguarding related matters.
- Demonstrate appropriate expert practice and highly specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care.
- To work within the safeguarding nursing team in managing and overseeing practitioners and their cases of vulnerable children and families whilst working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised care.
- Directly supervise, support, and advise clinical teams, by the provision of specialist knowledge and advice in relation to the safeguarding of children.
- To identify vulnerable children, young people and families early and provide effective programmes of support and care that protects and promotes their health and wellbeing.
- To contribute to child protection case conferences and strategy meetings in order to plan effectively to ensure optimum outcomes for vulnerable children.
- Participate in the delivery of safeguarding children training.
- Provide regular supervision to practitioners in the acute setting of the Trust
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To work within the safeguarding nursing team in managing and overseeing practitioners and their cases of vulnerable children and families whilst working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised care.
- Act as a role model, demonstrating high standards of care and providing expert and professional clinical leadership in the specialist areas.
- Demonstrate appropriate expert practice and highly specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care. Provide professional and clinical leadership and expertise in the speciality and to act as a resource for education and clinical expertise.
- Promote and deliver high standards of practice at all times and assist in the development of the specialist service, through the use of evidence based practice and clinical standards.
- Directly supervise, support, and advise clinical teams, by the provision of specialist knowledge and advice in relation to the safeguarding of children.
- Review families of high concern and provide relevant child protection supervision/ guidance.
- To identify vulnerable children, young people and families early and provide effective programmes of support and care that protects and promotes their health and wellbeing. Provide a seamless high quality service from referral through to assessment, treatment and review.
- Act as an advocate for service users to ensure a child orientated approach to the delivery of care in order to meet standards within the child protection legislation and guidelines.
- Establish, develop and maintain effective working relationship between clinicians, practitioners and managers within the specialty, across the trust and partner agencies.
- To contribute to child protection case conferences and strategy meetings in order to plan effectively to ensure optimum outcomes for vulnerable children. Provide support and guidance to staff who are required to attend these meetings and support individual practitioners’ pre and post conference discussions.
- In conjunction with the Named and Lead Professionals implement and maintain Safeguarding Policies and Procedures in line with Local Safeguarding Children Partnership, Government Policies and Legislation.
- Organise own work and manage caseload and practice, identifying and maintaining supportive networks for self and other staff members.
- Actively participate in local, national and international networking to maintain and develop expert level of knowledge in the specialty.
- To deliver formal safeguarding training sessions to specified staff on Child Protection and safeguarding issues, which facilitates learning and individual personal development.
- The Nurse Specialist will be required to provide regular supervision to practitioners in the acute setting of the Trust at regular intervals as per child protection supervision policy.
- Due to the emotional impact of the role undertake regular support and supervision sessions with the Lead Nurse.
- Identify and intervene where circumstances contribute to an unsafe environment for children.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Education and experience
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse RN child or
- Community Public Health Nurse (HV/SN)
Desirable criteria
- ENB / MSC in Child Protection
- ENB 998 or Teaching Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive post registration experience within children service
- Relevant experience of working in child protection field.
Desirable criteria
- Management responsibilities
- Previous work on interagency committees
- Clinical Supervisor in Child Protection
skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Awareness of recent research and developments relating to Child Protection work and its implications for practice.
- Knowledge of the current Government guidelines relating to Child Protection work.
- An understanding of the implications of the Children Act 1989 & 2004 in relation to Child Protection work.
- Awareness of the effects of culture and family dynamics on parenting and child rearing practices, and of the implication of these for Child Protection work.
- An understanding of the roles and responsibilities of other statutory and voluntary agencies in Child Protection.
- To have awareness and knowledge of issues in clinical supervision and consultation when working with professionals and lay staff.
Desirable criteria
- Understanding the principles of a learning organisation
- Understanding of local authority policy and practice
- Understanding of current NHS policy
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Experience of contributing to research projects
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Debbie Saunders
- Job title
- Head of Nursing Safeguarding Children
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07795 813 503
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