Job summary
- Main area
- Safeguarding
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months (full time from start date)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 844-7584334
- Employer
- Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mallory Building Birkenhead
- Town
- Birkenhead
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 pa (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/12/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 22/12/2025
Employer heading
Safeguarding Nurse Multi-Agency Child Protection Team
Band 7
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust's common purpose:
We will support you and your community to live well.
Our values:
Compassion
Supportive and caring, listening to others.
Open
Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.
Trust
Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust provides high quality community health and care services which are responsive to the needs of our local population. Services are delivered by our dedicated and innovative multi disciplinary professionals and supported by equally committed staff behind the scenes. We strive to continue developing and improving our services by working with and listening to our populations, partners, commissioners and staff.
WCHC offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based services across Cheshire and Merseyside.
Job overview
Please note, this post will be hosted by Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust Safeguarding Service (Wirral) which is due to TUPE to Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on 1st December 2025.
The Safeguarding Nurse will be the lead health practitioner and adviser for cases being overseen by the MACPT and they will facilitate access to the wider health economy and practitioners. They will develop networks of support and will work in partnership with the other MACPT members to create effective multi-agency interventions and plans, based on a rigorous assessment of risk.
Main duties of the job
The key responsibilities of the post are to:
· Ensure safe and effective service provision for vulnerable children/young people who fall under the remit of the MACPT. Needs will span the health economy, but will likely often be related to mental health, impact of trauma, and sexual health
· Provide co-ordination of health services in respect of any actions for health as part of Child Protection enquiries, ensuring attendance at key meetings such as Strategy Discussions, Initial Child Protection Conferences, and Review Child Protection Conferences
· Ensure the smooth flow and exchange of information from across the health economy to support the timely provision of services to children and young people at risk of or suffering significant harm, and help MACPT members navigate the health landscape
· Support the Local Authority as required in undertaking Section 47 enquiries, this may include visiting children and families and gathering the daily lived experience of family members
· Advise the MACPT, from a health perspective, about the appropriate course of action/interventions for a child, including contributing to assessments and plans
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Working for our organisation
Wirral is one of only ten areas in England chosen as a Families First for Children Pathfinder. The FFC Pathfinder is a Department for Education led Programme to design and test social care reforms which have been developed from the Government’s Stable Homes, Built on Love strategy.
The MACPT is a multi-agency team who will lead the response to the most serious and complex cases of known or suspected significant harm. They also have a key role to play in designing and delivering interventions to cases which have not yet met the significant harm threshold but are likely to do so without intensive support.
The operational MACPT team includes a co-located core team of lead child protection practitioners, social workers, a safeguarding nurse, police officer, education practitioner and a family therapist. The MACPT also maintains strong links to other specialist teams and agencies such as the Compass Child Exploitation, the domestic abuse hub and drug and alcohol services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The safeguarding nurse will be part of a co-located multi-agency team and will be required to maintain supportive and constructive relationships with a broad range of practitioners and agencies from within and outside the health economy.
Person specification
Education Training & Experience
Essential criteria
- • Current Registered Nurse (e.g. RSCN/ RN/ RMHN) or Registered Midwife (RM) or other similar professionally qualified health practitioner
- • 1st Level Degree in a relevant field
- • Evidence of ongoing professional development and training
- • Extensive (at least 3 years) current/recent experience of working with children and their families in a community health setting.
- • Evidence of working with families where safeguarding concerns have been identified.
- • Evidence of working in highly stressful environments
- • Substantial experience of multi-agency working
- • Conducting safeguarding supervision
- • Ability to formulate and implement policies and protocols
- • Planning, delivering and evaluation of safeguarding training
- • Experience of professional challenge and escalation
Desirable criteria
- • Qualification in safeguarding supervision
- • Dispensing qualification
- • Experience of working in sexual health services
- • Understanding of Child Death Review process and the NHS statutory responsibilities following a child death
- • Involvement in Safeguarding Practice Reviews
- • Experience of working with Children subject to a child protection plan
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrates evidence of relevant continued professional development
- • Demonstrates evidence of relevant post registration development
- • Demonstrates expert knowledge of local and national policy relating to safeguarding children and the role of local multi-agency safeguarding arrangements
- • Demonstrates expert interpersonal, communication and leadership skills
- • Demonstrates ability to negotiate and manage change
- • Multi-agency/team working and ability to work co-operatively
- • Demonstrates high standard of presentation and leadership skills
- • Expert written and oral communication skills for variety of audiences, including presentation skills and ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and simply.
- • Demonstrate knowledge of the wider determinants of Public Health
- • Expert written and oral communication skills for variety of audiences, including presentation skills and ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and simply.
- • Expert interpersonal skills, including ability to work effectively with people at different levels of an organisation, sensitivity to different perspectives and organisational cultures, negotiation skills, ability to work in a team.
- • Ability to prioritise competing demands, work effectively to specific timescales and demonstrate good organisational skills.
- • Demonstrates IT skills to a high standard including PowerPoint, data and spreadsheet management. Ability to navigate, document and review Electronic Patient Record Systems.
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of advanced audit and research skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jayne Williams
- Job title
- Named Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07709200241
- Additional information
I am available Monday to Wednesday 9-5pm
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