Job overview
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Band 6 Nurse to take on the role of Safeguarding Lead within our Theatres, Day Surgery and Recovery department. This unique position combines leadership in safeguarding with hands-on clinical expertise, offering the opportunity to make a real difference to patient safety and quality of care.
As the departmental lead for safeguarding, you will champion best practice for both adults and children, ensuring policies are embedded, incidents are managed robustly, and effective communication is maintained with colleagues and external agencies. You will provide expert advice, guidance, and support to the team, helping to maintain a culture of vigilance and accountability.
Alongside your leadership role, you will deliver direct clinical care during paediatric surgical sessions, with a focus on the immediate post-anaesthetic and post-operative period. Your theatre experience will enable you to support patients throughout their surgical journey, ensuring the highest standards of compassionate, safe, and effective care.
This is a varied and rewarding role for a dynamic individual who thrives on responsibility, teamwork, and making a difference in safeguarding and perioperative care. If you are ready to develop your career and lead safeguarding practice within a supportive and forward-thinking team, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be dedicated to Theatres, Day Surgery, and Recovery, providing visible clinical support and acting as a safeguarding liaison nurse. They will offer advice, support, and training on safeguarding, demonstrating initiative, flexibility, and the ability to manage a busy workload.
To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service,
all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate BHRUT’s ‘PRIDE’ values of Passion, Responsibility, Innovation, Drive and Empowerment.
We are looking for a committed, enthusiastic and dedicated individual to join our forward thinking and growing team. The successful candidate will have a passion for delivering high quality services in Recovery and be flexible to work in a dynamic environment.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in ; we’ve opened at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and, in recognition of our progress, we’ve been at the Health Service Journal Awards.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year.
The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited. We’re proud to be a employer.
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Registered Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner (RGN/RN/ODP)
Desirable criteria
2. Degree in Professional Practice or working towards
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
3. Extensive experience across adult and paediatric recovery and ward settings.
Desirable criteria
4. Competent IT Skills
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
5. Demonstrates a clear understanding of budget management
Desirable criteria
6. Can demonstrate a clear understanding of Clinical Governance and Audit
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.