Children In Care Nurse

Hcrg Care Group; Oldham; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension

Free on-site parking

Tea & coffee

My Reward Hub

Wages on demand

Wellbeing resources

Learning & development

Innovation funding

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is recruiting a Band 6 Nurse for the Children in Care service at Derby Court, Trowbridge. You will assess and manage health needs, provide direct clinical services, and support families and carers in a community setting with hybrid working.

The role offers professional development through The Learning Enterprise, with NHS pension and generous benefits. Applicants with Looked After Children experience are welcomed.

Qualifications

• NMC registered and registered with current UK status.
• Experience in Looked After Children or Children in Care settings.
• Desirable SCPHN qualification for public health specialist role.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, and evaluate health needs of looked after children.
• Provide direct clinical services and health promotion.
• Deliver training to foster carers and health professionals.
• Coordinate care with education, social services, and other agencies.
• Engage in safeguarding and holistic care planning.

Skills

NMC registered

Children in Care

SCPHN desirable

UK Driving Licence

Education

SCPHN qualification

Job description

Job summary

Package Description: As a Band 6 Children in Care Nurse you will be part of our valued team at Derby Court, Trowbridge in Wiltshire. You will feel valued as a Band 6 Nurse in HCRG Care group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £35,392 - £42,618 Band 6 Salary with full AfC terms and conditions including an NHS pension
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
• Free on site-parking at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, culture where you are encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an experienced Band 6 Nurse (SCPHN desirable) to join our Children in Care health team for 23.5 hours per week based at Derby Court, Trowbridge. The Children in Care health team works with partnership agencies striving to make positive changes and improve health outcomes for children in care. You will join a supportive and welcoming team of specialist health nurses and admin support, managed by the Named Nurse for Looked After Children. The team is committed to professional development, and successful applicants will have access to further training. Working hours are typically Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, with flexibility and hybrid working offered. As a Children in Care Nurse, you will work with a wider team to promote the physical, mental, and emotional health of children and young people, support families and carers, assess health needs, and provide direct clinical services and training. We welcome Band 5 Nurses looking to advance or established Band 6 Nurses interested in Looked After Children.

About us

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, HCRG Care Group is one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services. The organisation works with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. HCRG Care Group delivers and transforms adult and children community health services, primary care services, including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, MSK services, adult social care, and wellbeing services. They support communities of many millions and help more than half a million people each year. HCRG Care Group is committed to equal opportunities, welcoming applications from a broad, diverse range of people, and is a Disability Confident Committed company providing inclusive work environments.

Job responsibilities

Package Description:

As a Band 6 Children in Care Nurse you will be part of our valued team at Derby Court, Trowbridge in Wiltshire.

You will feel valued as a Band 6 Nurse in HCRG Care group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £35,392 - £42,618 Band 6 Salary with full AfC terms and conditions including an NHS pension
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
• Free on site-parking at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, culture where you are encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

Job Introduction

We are looking for an experienced Band 6 Nurse (SCPHN desirable) to join our Children in Care health team for 23.5 hours per week based at Derby Court, Trowbridge, though this is a community role.

The Children in Care health team, work with our partnership agencies striving to make positive changes and improve health outcomes for children in care.

You will join a supportive and welcoming team of specialist health nurses and admin support and be managed by the Named Nurse for Looked After Children. The Team is committed to professional development and successful applicants will have opportunities to access further training.

Working hours are typically Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, though we are committed to flexibility with hours and offer hybrid working to meet the needs of the staff, clients, and the service.

If you a Band 5 Nurse looking to take the next step in your career or an established band 6 we would love to hear from you! Especially if you have an interest or previous knowledge of Looked After Children already!

Main Responsibilities

As a Children in Care Nurse you will work with wider team to provide a service that promotes the physical, mental, and emotional health of children and young people and support for families and carers.

You will:

• Assess, plan, and evaluate the health needs of children on the caseload, challenging and escalating concerns where needed.
• Undertake assessments, considering emotional, mental, physical, and sexual health, ethnic and cultural needs.
• Provide direct clinical services to Looked After Children, to ensure that where possible every child has an individual and holistic health care plan.
• Provide direct services, enhancing local co-ordination and communication between young people, carers, health, education, social services, and voluntary agencies.
• Provide quality care and health assessments making appropriate care planning recommendations, surveillance, advice, support and health promotion
• Deliver training to foster carers and other health and social care professionals.

For further responsibilities please see the attached job description.

For more information, please contact Lena Pheby at [e-mail] or telephone [phone] / mobile: [phone]

The Ideal Candidate

To be successful in this role you will:

• Be a Registered Nurse with NMC registration
• Hold a SCPHN Qualification (desirable)
• A full UK Drivers Licence and access to a car.
• Have experience and a passion for Children in Care.
• Have experience and an interest in Safeguarding
• It would be an advantage if you held a qualification/ knowledge in Contraception and Sexual Health due to the services strong focus on young people's sexual health

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you'll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we'll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Be a Registered Nurse with NMC registration. Hold a SCPHN Qualification (desirable). A full UK Drivers Licence and access to a car. Experience and a passion for Children in Care, interest in Safeguarding. Advantageous to have qualification or knowledge in Contraception and Sexual Health.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).