Job overview
Safeguarding education is a core patient‑safety and organisational assurance function in a children’s hospital: it equips staff to recognise risk, respond appropriately, share information, and act in a coordinated, child‑centred way—thereby reducing harm and mitigating organisational risk. This role provides Trust‑wide leadership to ensure training provision and compliance align with Working Together to Safeguard Children (statutory guidance that organisations are expected to follow) and its multi‑agency practice expectations. It also ensures the Trust meets the competency and training standards set out in the Safeguarding Children and Young People Intercollegiate Guidance (2023), which defines role‑specific safeguarding competencies across healthcare. In doing so, it supports CQC expectations by evidencing that staff have appropriate safeguarding competence and that the organisation facilitates access to training and maintains robust oversight of compliance—key elements regulators look for when assessing safeguarding arrangements.
Main duties of the job
The purpose of this post is to:
* To act as the operational lead for ensuring the Safeguarding education, training and continuing development of all staff is planned and delivered effectively
* Support the GOSH Learning Academy in establishing multidisciplinary Safeguarding education programmes throughout the Trust.
* To develop and implement Safeguarding into all education plans in conjunction with the GOSH Learning Academy
* Lead on quality assurance including the benchmarking and standardisation of our Safeguarding education
* Oversee the Safeguarding provision of GOSH Learning Academy in house and academic education programmes ensuring high quality education for all
* Collaborate with the Safeguarding team on the induction, education and education for audits for Safeguarding throughout the Trust.
* Provide Safeguarding educational support and educational leadership in the delivery of the policies. This should include providing training and support for the team to upskill their teaching methods and delivery.
* To work collaboratively with the team to instigate and evaluate new Safeguarding developments and initiatives that support and enhance learning in the clinical environment and across organisational boundaries.
* To establish links with educational and any other organisations, as appropriate to further develop and maintain education and development of nursing staff including supporting and developing any Franchise run modules
Working for our organisation
We are committed to recruiting the best person for the job through a fair, open and consistent process that is free from bias and discrimination.
We are working towards becoming an anti-racist organisation. This means creating a workplace where every colleague feels seen, heard and valued, and where racism in any form has no place. Our anti-racism commitment is backed by action through our Anti-Racism Statement and action plan, developed in collaboration with our REACH staff network.
We actively challenge discrimination, dismantle barriers and embed equity across all aspects of our workforce, including recruitment, progression and development. All applicants will receive equal consideration regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, health condition or employment history.
We particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, people with disabilities or long-term health conditions, and LGBTQ+ community members. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a member of the Business Disability Forum, and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.
Our staff networks, including REACH, PRIDE, ENABLED and Women’s Networks, are active and executive supported. These employee-led networks play a vital role in shaping an inclusive culture at GOSH and are open to all colleagues.
Together, we are building a culture where inclusion is not optional - it is essential.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
GOSH Culture and Values
Essential criteria
* Our Always values
Academic/Professional qualification/Training
Essential criteria
* Registered healthcare professional
* Relevant First Degree in health care related subject
* Educated to master’s degree level (working towards) or equivalent level of experience
* Specialist Safeguarding course
* Teaching qualification (PG Certificate Practice Education)
Desirable criteria
* Leadership training
Experience/Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Significant experience in an education role
* effective teams and departments
* Current and extensive knowledge of CYP education and training
* Understanding of inter-professional education
* Understanding of education and commissioning structures
* care, clinical audit, benchmarking, performance standards
* Experience in implementing pan trust clinical improvement projects
* Expert knowledge of Safeguarding procedures, legislation and mandatory requirements
* Experience in Safeguarding education
Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
* workload, working to tight deadlines
* Quality improvement/practice development skills
* Excellent managerial, operational, leadership and organisational skills
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Excellent teaching, training and preceptorship skills
* Excellent presentation skills
* Able to motivate, inspire and develop teams of staff
* Able to problem solve and initiate change
* Able to work across professional team and organisational boundaries and maintain constructive relationships
* Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team