Children in Care Nurse

HCRG Care Group; Trowbridge; Híbrido; GBP 35 000 - 43 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

NHS Pension

Free beverages (tea/coffee/milk)

On-site parking

My Reward Hub discounts

Earned wage access

Wellbeing support

Learning & development

Resumo da oferta

HCRG Care Group is seeking an experienced Band 6 Nurse (SCPHN desirable) to join our Children in Care health team on a 33-hour-per-week community basis, with hybrid working options. The role focuses on assessments, care planning, and inter-agency coordination to improve outcomes for looked-after children.

Base at Derby Court, Trowbridge, with a supportive team and opportunities for professional development through The Learning Enterprise.

Qualificações

• Registered Nurse with NMC registration.
• SCPHN qualification desirable.
• Full UK Driving Licence and access to a car.
• Experience and interest in Looked After Children and safeguarding.

Responsabilidades

• Assess, plan, and evaluate health needs of children on the caseload.
• Undertake comprehensive health assessments including emotional, mental and physical health.
• Provide direct clinical services to Looked After Children and ensure individual health care plans.
• Enhance coordination between young people, carers, health, education, social services and voluntary agencies.
• Deliver training to foster carers and other health/social care professionals.

Conhecimentos

NMC registration

Driving licence

Formação académica

NMC registered nurse

SCPHN qualification

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Benefits

• £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 life’s 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 as 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 33 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

• 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

• Be a Registered Nurse with NMC registration.
• Hold a SCPHN Qualification (desirable).
• A full UK Driver’s 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 service’s strong focus on young people's sexual health.
• If you have an interest in working with this diverse group of children and young people including unaccompanied asylum seekers, we are keen to hear from you.

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.

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