Job summary
- Main area
- Quality
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 116-8417437
- Employer
- NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Home Breweries Building
- Town
- Daybrook
- Salary
- £66,582 - £77,368 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Designated Nurse Safeguarding (Looked After Children)
NHS AfC: Band 8b
JOIN A CONNECTED SYSTEM CARING FOR 3.25 MILLION LIVES ACROSS THE EAST MIDLANDS
Three ICBs, one mission: partnering across Derby & Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottingham & Nottinghamshire.
The DLN Cluster has been established to support the wider health and social care needs of the population across Derby & Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottingham & Nottinghamshire and will focus on reducing health inequalities, moving care closer to home, and ensuring long-term financial and service sustainability. Its core framework targets prevention, integrated neighbourhood health models, and managing high-risk multimorbidity.
As an employee within the DLN Cluster, you will work in a progressive environment that connects regional strategy with local delivery. While our primary headquarters is at Sir John Robinson House in Arnold, Nottinghamshire, our teams work flexibly across multiple locations throughout the cluster footprint. This role could be employed by any of the organisations within the DLN Cluster. We champion professional development, multi-organisational collaboration and digital enablement, giving our workforce the opportunity to help shape the future of the NHS.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has become available for the post of Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire as part of the cluster ICB changes. This is a strategic statutory role within the ICB. The post is open to staff with clinical children’s registration with extensive knowledge and experience in safeguarding children and who have the ability to work across partnerships to ensure that Children and Young People are safe and can develop and met their ambitions.
The post holder needs to be able to show a commitment to lead and provide specialist advice across the partnerships and within the ICB as required.
Main duties of the job
The main responsibilities of the post are to:
· Provide senior leadership for safeguarding children, including statutory partnership engagement
· Provide professional safeguarding advise across partners and within the ICB
· Support named safeguarding roles and professional networks across the system
· Ensure statutory safeguarding duties and partnership requirements are met
· Ensure appropriate escalation and management of safeguarding risks
Working for our organisation
The DLN Cluster, comprising Derby & Derbyshire ICB, Lincolnshire ICB, and Nottingham & Nottinghamshire ICB, offers prospective employees a unique opportunity to contribute to healthcare innovation focused on reducing health inequalities and improving outcomes for local communities. By joining our team, you will help develop integrated neighbourhood health models that bring care closer to home and support proactive, preventative approaches. We are committed to sustainable, high-impact clinical excellence and support innovation through dedicated transformation funding, turning ideas for improvement into frontline delivery. At the DLN Cluster, your career will be shaped by meaningful system-wide change, collaborative working, and the opportunity to help build a healthier, fairer future for diverse communities across the region.
This role may be employed by any organisation within the DLN Cluster.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please note that this advert and recruitment is subject to any appeals outcome and may be withdrawn. The interviews for this post will be held W/C 30th November 2026 for an informal discussion about this role please email Nicola Ryan Deputy Director of Quality, Safeguarding and Partnerships ([email protected])
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- Member of relevant professional body. nurse, midwife, medic, AHP, pharmacist or social worker
- Master's level qualification or equivalent experience working at a senior level in at a minimum one of the Specialist areas of the Portfolio
- Evidence of continued professional development and professional leadership
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Ability to travel across the DLN footprint
- Leadership of complex and challenging transformation projects
- Financial stewardship and budget management
- Experience working across providers, primary care and other system partners
- An understanding of the statutory duties of the ICBs in relation to the Portfolio
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicola Ryan
- Job title
- DD Quality, Safeguarding and Partnerships
- Email address
- [email protected]
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