Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse | Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust


Company:	Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
Salary:	£49,387 - £56,515 per annum, pro rata
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	St Albans, AL4 9XR
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	15 Jul 2026
Closing date:	23 Aug 2026

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Summary

Join Our Safeguarding All Ages Team

Are you an experienced and passionate registered nurse with a commitment to safeguarding children and families? We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivatedBand 7 Safeguarding Children Nurse Specialistto 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*

• 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.

• 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 Caring, Pioneering, and Inclusive 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

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.

The use of AI is monitored and if you have used it then you are required to declare this, as well as what type of AI tools you have used and for what purpose. We reserve the right to further test your individual knowledge and skills in relation to the requirements for the post throughrobust and thorough interview and assessment.

This advert closes on Tuesday 28 Jul 2026

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