Senior Named Nurse/Professional Safeguarding Adults and Children
Oxford
Full Time
£57,528 - £64,750 per annum | pro rata
Expires: 15/11/2026
Band 8a
Permanent
About the Role
Job overview
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an exceptional Senior Named Professional Safeguarding Adults and Children to join our specialist safeguarding service. This is a high-profile leadership role offering the opportunity to shape safeguarding practice, provide expert advice and assurance, and drive improvement across health services and multi-agency partnerships.
A significant aspect of this role is providing safeguarding leadership and support to staff across Swindon, Wiltshire and Bath & North East Somerset (BaNES). You will also support safeguarding leadership in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire as part of the role.
You will be expected to maintain a visible presence within services and partner agencies, attending meetings, supervision, training and safeguarding activities in person. The role requires flexibility to work across organisational boundaries and geographical locations to support service delivery and business continuity.
This is an opportunity to join a highly respected safeguarding team and play a vital role in ensuring robust safeguarding arrangements across a large, integrated NHS Trust. You will contribute to strategic leadership, quality improvement, governance, training, partnership working and the development of outstanding safeguarding practice.
If you are looking for a role where you can make a real impact on safeguarding adults and children, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
We are particularly looking for candidates with experience and expertise in both adult and children safeguarding. The successful candidate will provide specialist leadership across areas including:
- Adult safeguarding and Section 42 enquiries
- Child Protection Processes
- Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- Self-neglect/neglect and complex risk management
- Domestic abuse, modern slavery and exploitation
- Safeguarding Adults Reviews
- Local safeguarding children practice reviews
- Facilitating group supervision
- Delivering and developing training
- Audit and quality improvement
- Multi-agency working
Working for our organisation
Please note that this role will require us to undertake a DBS check as a part of your onboarding.
Give yourself the best chance of success by reviewing our Applicant Guide before applying. Your supporting statement should clearly demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria for the role.
Oxford Health delivers physical, mental health and social care services across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Our vision is "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team", and our values are Caring, Safe and Excellent.
We are proud to offer a supportive working environment with opportunities for career progression, learning and development, generous annual leave, pension benefits, wellbeing initiatives and staff networks
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Safeguarding leadership and support to staff across Swindon, Wiltshire and Bath & North East Somerset (BaNES).
Support safeguarding leadership in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire as part of the role.
Facilitate service delivery related to
- Adult safeguarding and Section 42 enquiries
- Child Protection Processes
- Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- Self-neglect/neglect and complex risk management
- Domestic abuse, modern slavery and exploitation
- Safeguarding Adults Reviews
- Local safeguarding children practice reviews
- Facilitating group supervision
- Delivering and developing training
- Audit and quality improvement
- Multi-agency working
- Line management of safeguarding service staff
- Reporting processes
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional registration
- Experience of working at Senior Safeguarding practitioner level
Desirable criteria
- Experience of line management
- Safeguarding Qualification
- Teaching Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of think Family approaches
- Ability to lead organisational change
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel across Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust geographical areas
Skills
Essential criteria
- Strong analytical and report writing skills.
Documents to Download
Senior Named Nurse/Professional Children and Adults (PDF, 208.4KB)
Occy health requirements form (PDF, 112.7KB)
Guidance Notes for Candidates Applying for a job at OHFT (PDF, 424.6KB)
Recruiter Contact Details
Name: Elizabeth Navrady-Wilson
Title: Deputy Head of Safeguarding
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 07825120178