Band 8a Named Nurse for Safeguarding
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Job Introduction
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 practiti
As the Named Nurse for Safeguarding, you will be an integral part of the organisation’s Safeguarding Team and accountable within the managerial framework of the Lancashire 0–19 Public Health Nursing Service. You will support the Safeguarding Lead in ensuring that the organisation meets all contractual and statutory safeguarding responsibilities, working collaboratively with partner agencies and the wider safeguarding network across HCRG Care Group.
You will provide leadership and management to the Safeguarding Specialist Nurses, supporting their professional development, delegating work appropriately, and offering high‑quality supervision. You will also deputise for the Safeguarding Lead when required and contribute to both the children’s and adults’ safeguarding agendas across the organisation.
What you'll do:
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 practiti
As the Named Nurse for Safeguarding, you will be an integral part of the organisation’s Safeguarding Team and accountable within the managerial framework of the Lancashire 0–19 Public Health Nursing Service. You will support the Safeguarding Lead in ensuring that the organisation meets all contractual and statutory safeguarding responsibilities, working collaboratively with partner agencies and the wider safeguarding network across HCRG Care Group.
You will provide leadership and management to the Safeguarding Specialist Nurses, supporting their professional development, delegating work appropriately, and offering high‑quality supervision. You will also deputise for the Safeguarding Lead when required and contribute to both the children’s and adults’ safeguarding agendas across the organisation.
What you'll do:
- 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.
Essential Education & Qualifications
- 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.
- 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.
What HCRG Care Group offer:
As a Named Nurse for Safeguarding you will be part of our valued team in our Lancashire Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £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 you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your 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 your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do .
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broa
d, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone .
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
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While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
Attached documents