Band 6 Children in care Nurse

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Duty Nurse position focusing on the health needs of Children in Care. Working under the Lead Specialist Nurse, you will assess and plan care, maintain clinical standards, and support young people and families to engage with health services.

You will be responsible for a caseload, professional accountability for your own practice, and contributing to service development.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan and review the health needs of Children in Care.
• Support development and innovation of the service to provide timely, evidence-based provisions.
• Support children, young people and families to follow health plans in residential settings.
• Manage complex patient casework and oversee clinical functions with sensitivity.
• Carry out holistic health assessments and develop individualized health plans.

Job description

Be Part of Our Team

The post holder will ensure the individual health needs of Children in Care are met to enable access to appropriate health advice and services and to encourage the engagement in a healthy lifestyle.

Engage with the relevant multidisciplinary services to ensure service delivery and clinical standards are maintained and provide information, advice and practical support in all areas that impact on a child and young person’s health.

• Under the guidance of the Lead Specialist Nurse, be responsible for assessing, planning and reviewing the health needs of Children in Care. Identifying outstanding health needs and supporting young people to address their health requirements
• To support the Lead Specialist Nurse and be professionally and legally be accountable and responsible for all aspects of own work and caseload.
• To assist and support the development and innovation of the service within, to enable the team to provide provisions in a timely and up to date evidence based manner.
• To support children, young people, their families and carers to implement appropriate health plan and work effectively within residential settings, providing advice, guidance and support as appropriate.
• To manage a variety of complex and sensitive patient casework commensurate to the nature of the post. This will include exposure to a variety of conditions, overseeing clinical functions, managing distressing situations and undertaking administrational activities to ensure records and information is uploaded onto systems in a timely and accurate way, to ensure effective integration of practice.
• To undertake patient health assessments and assess health needs holistically to develop a health plan that relates to the individual children and young person. Taking into account their physical, emotional, behavioural, social and developmental needs, undertaking regular analysis of complex information in accordance with clinical procedures.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

We want to hear from you if you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ade Jolaosho Job title: Named Nurse and Clinical Service Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07714847469

Duty Nurse 01214663648