Job summary
The post holder will join the Corporate Safeguarding Team to help deliver high-quality safeguarding services for children and young people and adults under the "Think Family" agenda, with an emphasis on Awaken (violence reduction/serious violence response) and Youth Justice pathways. This role is key in ensuring the Trust fulfils its statutory safeguarding responsibilities according to the Children Act 1989/2004 and Working Together guidance, supporting better outcomes for vulnerable children, including those at risk of exploitation, serious violence, or criminal justice involvement.

Main duties of the job

• Offering specialist safeguarding advice and support to Trust staff, including daily safeguarding supervision for others.
• Enhancing connections between health services, Youth Justice Services, child exploitation teams, and multi-agency safeguarding partners.
• Assisting with the implementation of the Awaken programme and related violence reduction initiatives.
• Participating in multi-agency safeguarding efforts, such as strategy discussions and case reviews.
• Helping develop best practices and facilitating shared learning to shape services and initiatives that address local needs.

About us
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.

We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.

We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexi time working can be explored.

Date posted 13 July 2026
Pay scheme Agenda for change
Band Band 6
Salary £39,959 to £48,117 a year pro rata
Contract Secondment
Working pattern Full-time
Reference number 382-COR38-26
Job locations blackpool teaching hospitals, Whinney Heys road, Blackpool, FY3 8NR, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities
Planning and Organisational Skills

• Plans and organises a range of safeguarding tasks, activities, and programmes, including ongoing initiatives, ensuring statutory safeguarding duties are coordinated and all actions comply with established procedures.
• Participates in governance processes to ensure lessons from incidents and investigations are captured and applied.

Analytical & Judgemental Skills

• Exercise sound judgement in situations involving a range of safeguarding issues, requiring careful analysis and comparison of possible safeguarding options.
• Demonstrate skills in assessing and interpreting the complex needs of children and young people, including evaluating risks, identifying signs of abuse or neglect, interpreting safeguarding assessments, and determining suitable interventions to ensure their welfare.
• Provide specialist advice on safeguarding children and young people at risk of harm, such as exploitation, serious youth violence, and offending behaviour.
• Support frontline staff in recognising safeguarding concerns and carrying out appropriate actions and referrals.
• Contribute to safeguarding assessments, risk assessment and risk management, care and safety planning, and collaborative multi-agency working.
• Promote and support the delivery of trauma-informed and child-centred care approaches.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role, including the main responsibilities and essential criteria.

Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential

• A Registered General Nurse (Adult or Child), a Registered Midwife, or an individual holding a relevant first-level degree with at least 3 years' experience working in safeguarding.
• Evidence of continued professional development including safeguarding specific learning and training children such as child protection, exploitation, youth justice, domestic abuse, serious violence, trauma-informed practice, teaching or supervision.
• Expert knowledge of safeguarding legislation and procedures for both adults and children.

Desirable

• Has attended Safeguarding Supervision Course

Experience and Knowledge
Essential

• Experience of working with children, young people, families or vulnerable adults in health, social care, safeguarding, youth justice or a multi-agency setting.
• Understanding of the role of universal services, specialist services and multi-agency partnership arrangements in supporting children, young people and adults at risk
• Experience in dealing with highly emotive and confidential information
• Experience of identifying and responding to safeguarding concerns including abuse, neglect, exploitation, contextual safeguarding and serious youth violence.
• Experience in supporting staff in the management of safeguarding cases and experience of working across statutory bodies and organisations.
• Knowledge of safeguarding children legislation, statutory guidance and local safeguarding partnership arrangements, including the Children Act 1989/2004, Working Together guidance, information sharing, consent, confidentiality, GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
• Family approach and the impact of adult vulnerabilities on children and young people.

Desirable

• Knowledge of Awaken or equivalent serious violence/violence reduction pathway, contextual safeguarding, exploitation, youth justice or trauma-informed practice.
• Experience contributing to safeguarding audits, reviews, action plans, service improvement or learning from incidents.

Skills and Ability
Essential

• Excellent oral and written communication skills and an ability to communicate effectively with people who use Trust services, carers, families, and multi-agency partners.
• Compassionate, resilient, reflective and professionally curious, with a commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion, anti-discriminatory practice and Trust values.
• Able to provide safeguarding advice, support and supervision to staff. Able to contribute to safeguarding assessments, safety planning, risk management, strategy discussions, case conferences and multi-agency meetings.,
• Able to analyse safeguarding information, identify risk and protective factors and support proportionate decision-making.
• Demonstrates the capacity to work independently, with the skills to effectively plan, prioritise, and manage a diverse safeguarding workload within a dynamic and occasionally unpredictable setting.
• Ability to influence, negotiate and professionally challenge to internal and external partners in a constructive and appropriate manner where required and demonstrate professional credibility with colleagues
• Ability to communicate effectively through email and to use Microsoft word, PowerPoint, excel, clinical records and data base systems.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).