Children's Looked After nurse

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

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Knowsley seeks a dedicated Children's Looked After nurse to manage the health needs of children aged 0-25. The ideal candidate will excel in leadership and communication, conduct health assessments, and provide health education. This role offers a chance to make a significant impact on vulnerable children's health outcomes, supported by a collaborative team environment. Applicants should have a Registered Nurse qualification and experience working with children in care. Flexibility and a willingness to travel are essential.

Benefits

Training and supervision opportunities

Supportive team environment

Flexible working requests considered

Qualifications

• Experience in working with children and young people.
• Demonstrated ability to improve health outcomes.
• Commitment to equality and diversity in care.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of Children Looked After.
• Conduct comprehensive health assessments.
• Deliver health education and promotion.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Case management

Health assessment

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

Equality & Diversity Statement

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

About the Role

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.

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

The post holder will:

• 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.

Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form. Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [email protected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you. We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role and work in Children's & Young People services to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles. Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

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?

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.

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.

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.