Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner for Children in Care
| Posting date: | 30 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 January 2026 |
| Location: | Lancaster, LA1 4RP |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9331-25-1147 |
Summary
The post holder will work within the Safeguarding Children team providing an effective and evidenced based advice and consultation service to Trust staff who raise safeguarding concerns. The post holder is responsible for leading the Children in Care workstream across the Trust and advocating for patients who are in care or care experienced. Introducing awareness across the trust of the Language That Cares document, changing the way that professionals talk about Children in Care. Raising awareness of Children in Care within the trust. Provide visible, accessible clinical leadership in all areas of the Trust where patients are in care or care experienced. Participate in any multi-disciplinary meetings where a Child in Care is a patient. Provide Trustwide advice and consultation whenever and however safeguarding concerns are raised, whether or not the concern is eventually substantiated as a safeguarding concern. Coordinate with other safeguarding specialists to ensure cover is provided in the safeguarding team. Produce chronologies for Rapid Reviews and Local Safeguarding Practice Reviews and deputise for the Named Nurse in those meetings if required. Understand and contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/ protocols/ guidelines relevant to Safeguarding Children with a focus on Children in Care.