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.
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.
We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with. We're no longer in special measures; we've opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and, in recognition of our progress, we've been shortlisted for Trust of the Year 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 transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub.
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 work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lisa Awong Job title: Matron Email address: Telephone number:
Ext: 6763