EG226856 - Bairns Hoose Health and Wellbeing Coordinator

NHS Grampian; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A regional health board is seeking a Health and Wellbeing Coordinator in Aberdeen City. This role involves acting as the main contact for children and families, ensuring their health and wellbeing needs are fully considered in assessments. Applicants must be registered nurses with substantial child protection experience and a commitment to improving outcomes for vulnerable children and families. This is a part-time position with responsibilities across Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with child protection experience.
• Demonstrated commitment to improving outcomes for vulnerable children, young people and families.
• Experience working with children and families in a child protection context and with multi-agency partners.

Responsibilities

• Act as the single point of contact for a child and family, ensuring health and wellbeing needs are considered in a holistic, multi-agency assessment.
• Collaborate with multi-agency partners to support children, young people and families in protecting and improving outcomes.
• Utilise substantial child protection experience in a NHS Grampian context to inform practice.

Job description

Overview

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

Band 7 Secondment opportunity currently 5 months (March 26).

Health and Wellbeing Coordinator posts (0.5 WTE – 18.5 hours each): one post in Aberdeen City and one post in Aberdeenshire. There is an alternative opportunity to combine posts to work 1 WTE (37 hours) across both areas.

This is a unique and exciting opportunity to contribute to a pioneering approach to supporting children and young people who have experienced, witnessed, or are at risk of significant harm. Following a successful bid for Scottish Government funding, NHSG are seeking to appoint a Health and Wellbeing Coordinator to join each of our multi-agency pathfinder teams. This initiative is known as Bairns Hoose.

As the Health Coordinator, you will provide expertise as the single point of contact for a child and family, ensuring that the health and wellbeing needs of children and young people are actively considered as part of a holistic, multi-agency assessment. You will require substantial experience working with children and families in a child protection context alongside multi-agency partners. We are therefore seeking an experienced registered nurse with child protection experience and a commitment to improving outcomes for vulnerable children, young people and families.

Post holder bases for discussion. Bairns Hoose premises are in both Aberdeen City and Kemnay.

Responsibilities

• Act as the single point of contact for a child and family, ensuring health and wellbeing needs are considered in a holistic, multi-agency assessment.
• Collaborate with multi-agency partners to support children, young people and families in protecting and improving outcomes.
• Utilise substantial child protection experience in a NHS Grampian context to inform practice.

Qualifications and Experience

• Registered nurse with child protection experience.
• Demonstrated commitment to improving outcomes for vulnerable children, young people and families.
• Experience working with children and families in a child protection context and with multi-agency partners.

Additional Information for Candidates

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Location and Funding

This role operates within NHS Grampian, one of fourteen regional health boards of NHS Scotland, serving Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray. Bairns Hoose premises are in Aberdeen City and Kemnay (Aberdeenshire).

EEO Statement

NHS Grampian forms one of the fourteen regional health boards of NHS Scotland and is responsible for providing health and social care services to a population of over 500,000 people living in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray. As a board we strive to ensure the environment is conducive to nurturing a positive culture, supported and delivered through our NHS and Social Care values.