Clinical Nurse Specialist safeguarding children and young people

Job summary

The post holder will provide expert clinical leadership and highly specialist advice on all matters relating to the safeguarding of children and young people across the Trust. Working as part of the children safeguarding team to ensure that all staff understand and meet their responsibility in relation to safeguarding the welfare of children in line with local and national guidance.Working closely with the Named Nurse team, you will ensure the organisation fulfils its statutory requirements as defined by Working Together (2023) and the RCN Intercollegiate Document (2025).Based primarily at Northwick Park Hospital, you will join a forward-thinking team committed to the "Think Family" model and Transitional / Contextual Safeguarding, ensuring a child-centred and every contact counts approach is embedded across all Trust services.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a dynamic, motivated individual with substantial safeguarding expertise to join our proactive Integrated Safeguarding Children Team at LNWH.

This role involves ensuring robust safeguarding policies and information sharing is completed by working collaboratively with the Safeguarding Children team, Named nurses and doctors and multi agency partners to ensure the Trust meets its Safeguarding Children responsibilities and effectively Safeguarding children.

The post holder will be expected to provide highly specialist advice and clinical support to all healthcare staff in the organisation and to take a leading role in facilitating training and supervision in line with guidelines and legislation.

The successful candidate will be encouraged to develop their own knowledge and potential with support from our Integrated team.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.