Children looked after nurse | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a committed public health nurse to work with Children Looked After and Care Leavers in Knowsley. This role involves managing a caseload of 0-25 year-olds, promoting their health and well-being, and providing comprehensive health assessments. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills while working collaboratively with health and social care teams. This position offers opportunities for training and development in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Flexible working requests considered

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience with children and young people aged 0-25.
• Ability to work with vulnerable groups and those with additional health needs.
• Demonstrated ability to promote health and well-being.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to health and social care colleagues.
• Manage a caseload of Children Looked After.
• Practice autonomously and make evidence-based clinical decisions.
• Ensure quality nursing practice in designated area.
• Capture the wishes and feelings of the child.

Skills

Leadership

Caseload management

Effective communication

Health assessment

Education

Registered health nurse

Job description

Are you a caring and committed public health nurse? Do you have the skills to work with Children Looked After and Care Leavers and improve their health outcomes? Are you keen to contribute towards the development of the Children's Looked After teams.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Knowsley, to join our team of Children Looked After nurses working with 0-25 children and young people who are Looked After.

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced registered health nurse who can demonstrate a high standard of leadership and caseload management skills, can deliver excellent health assessment, have effective communication skills working with children and young people, to join our motivated and friendly team.

The post requires a flexible approach and a willingness to travel.

You will have the opportunity to be creative and deliver training and engage looked after children, their carers and partner agencies to ensure that health needs are assessed and met for this cohort of children.

The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate experience with working with children of all ages, vulnerable groups and those with additional health needs.

The role will be supported by the Team Manager and Named Nurse for Children Looked After, with excellent opportunities for supervision, training and development.

This post is subject to an enhanced with children's and adult's barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.

The age range of Children Looked after is 0-25 years, and it is envisaged that the Children's Looked After nurse will have contact and case manage children across this age range both male and female.

Most children and young people have experienced severe social dysfunction in their families together with significant traumatic life events, sometimes in complex combinations.

These may include family break up and dysfunction, frequent changes of home and/or school, bereavement, violence, major illness or hospitalisation, and physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse.

These factors exacerbate inherent medical issues, as well as impacting on the educational and social achievement.

Promote the physical, mental and social aspects of children and young people.

Assist in assessing care needs, planning, delivery and evaluation of care.

Ensure that the needs of these children and young people are recognized and that appropriate care is initiated by the caseload holder.

Assist in facilitating health education and health promotion for service users.

Ensure comprehensive health assessments are produced for Children Looked After, including risk assessments of young people with complex health problems based on having an in depth knowledge in this area of expertise.

The caseload holder is able to utilise skills flexibly so that interventions can be creatively thought about, and provided within the young persons home, school, area office or other appropriate setting.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

The post holder will provide an integrated and coordinated approach to the needs of the children and young people.

Responsibilities

• Provide support and guidance to health and social care colleagues to ensure access to inclusive primary health care services.
• Manage a caseload of Children Looked After as required under statutory and responsible commissioning guidance.
• Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision making.
• Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting any identified risks to the Team Manager and Named Nurse.
• Ensure the delivery of quality nursing practice within the designated area incorporating the establishment of systems and processes.
• Ensure the wishes, feelings and voice of the child are captured.
• Develop systems ensure young people leaving care are provided with individual information on their own health care.
• Attend and contribute to meetings as necessary.
• Deliver training pertaining to Children Looked after.

This advert closes on Thursday 18 Dec 2025.