Designated Nurse Children Looked After

NHS North West London; London; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits as a Designated Nurse for Children Looked After within a dynamic Integrated Care Board. This role involves working closely with safeguarding teams, providing expert advice, and ensuring the best care for children looked after across multiple boroughs. The successful candidate will utilize their strategic leadership skills to influence and enhance care delivery, while collaborating with various stakeholders. Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to improving health outcomes and making a significant impact in the community. If you are passionate about children's health and safeguarding, this role offers a fulfilling career path with the potential to make a real difference.

Qualifications

• Must be a member of NMC or equivalent.
• Extensive NHS experience in a Named/CLA Specialist role.
• Evidence of post-basic continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate understanding of commissioning organisations.
• Provide expert advice across the NWL health economy.
• Contribute to Corporate Parenting Panel and Safeguarding Partnership.

Skills

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Planning Skills

Management Skills

Problem Solving

Microsoft Office

Education

Master’s Degree

NMC Registration

Tools

Prince 2

Managing Successful Projects

Job description

Employer: NHS North West London ICB

Employer type: NHS

Site: NHS North West London ICB

Town: London

Salary: £61,927 - £68,676 Inclusive of HCA per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 07/01/2025 23:59

Designated Nurse Children Looked After

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Job overview

If you are looking for an exciting opportunity to work within an Integrated Care Board in the Chief Nursing Officer Directorate as a Designated Nurse for Children Looked After, then we would encourage you to contact us. The NWL ICB Safeguarding team is made up of Designated Nurses for Safeguarding Children and CLA, Designated Doctors for Safeguarding Children and CLA, and Named GPs. The team also includes Designated Professionals for Safeguarding Adults. The NWL ICB Safeguarding service covers the boroughs of Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, and Westminster/Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Children Looked After Nurse who has comprehensive knowledge and experience of working in health care and across the wider system. The vacant post is in the boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the borough of Westminster.

Main duties of the job

You will need to demonstrate a good understanding of commissioning organisations and how children looked after assurance is gathered whilst using your strategic leadership skills to influence the children looked after portfolio. This will require excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to develop and sustain productive and collaborative relationships with key stakeholders. You will need to demonstrate a good understanding of children looked after processes and provide expert advice and support across the NWL health economy, as well as to partner agencies such as the police and local authority. You will contribute to the work of the Corporate Parenting Panel and Safeguarding Children Partnership and provide them with advice and support as required. You will work across a collaborative team which encompasses safeguarding, quality and patient safety to fulfil the statutory responsibilities of the Integrated Care Board in North West London.

Working for our organisation

NHS North West London Integrated Care Board (NHS NWL ICB) is a statutory body responsible for planning and allocating health and care resources to improve the lives of people in eight boroughs across North West London: Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster. The local population is large and diverse, with a wide range of health and care needs that are evolving all the time. Working with our partners including Councils, NHS provider Trusts, GPs and voluntary and community organisations, we plan and allocate NHS resource to deliver a wide range of services including urgent and emergency care, mental health, primary care, elective hospital services and community care. Working for us, you can help ensure that our residents and patients have access to the right services when they need them and assist them take greater care of their own health to ensure they live longer, healthier lives.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information on the detailed job description and main responsibilities for this role, please read the job description and person specification document provided on this advert.

Person specification

Knowledge Training and Experience

• Member of relevant professional clinical body (Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) registrant, Part 1 of NMC Register or Part 3 Specialist Community Public Health Nurse)
• Extensive experience of working at a professional level in the NHS and working as a Named/CLA Specialist role (or equivalent experience)
• Educated to Master’s level or able to demonstrate relevant clinical experience and research in equivalence including national recognition.
• Evidence of post-basic continuing professional development including in CLA.
• Extensive knowledge of national/local Children Looked After Procedures and legislation.

Communication Skills

• Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
• Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.

Analytical

• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
• Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options.
• Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
• Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.

Planning Skills

• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
• Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.

Management Skills

• Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.

Physical Skills

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.

Equality and Diversity

• Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems for London.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.