Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse | Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 22 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 August 2025 |
| Location: | St Albans, AL4 9XR |
| Company: | Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7363474/812-25-ST-SGC-B |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to cover a secondment on a 1 year fixed term contract within the Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust (HCT) Safeguarding Children Team.
As part of Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust (HCT) Safeguarding Children Team you will promote a high standard of safeguarding children work throughout HCT to improve outcomes for children and young people by working in partnership with other organizations and by offering support, training, and high-quality supervision to agreed staff groups and to be part of the Joint Agency Response Rota for unexpected child death.
• To 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.
• To be part of the Joint Agency Response for Unexpected Child Deaths in Hertfordshire
• To 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
• To ensure effective communication and support and a cohesive approach is applied across the organization within its remit to safeguard children.
• To contribute to, facilitate and provide any safeguarding children training within HCT and multi-agency settings. To monitor systems that are in place to audit training needs, training and evaluate outcomes
• To support with any legal requests or records requests that may also include the support of HCT staff in the development of court statements and CAFCASS reports.
• To be responsible for research of cases for Hertfordshire MARAC and MACE and to be an HCT representative for MARAC meetings.
A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
You’ll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff
We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities
Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision
We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds and ages
We don’t want you to miss out so we’d like you to know that if we have a high level of interest in this role, the vacancy may close prior to the advertised closing date, so please make your application as soon as possible - Apply now
You’ve made a great decision to apply to join to HCT - we’re looking forward to taking the next steps of the journey with you.
Please see attached job description for more details
Whilst it is not a legal requirement, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust encourages and supports all staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.
We are committed to supporting flexible working options for staff, wherever possible, and welcome discussions on flexible working patterns to support our staff to maintain a healthy work life balance.
This advert closes on Saturday 2 Aug 2025
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