Lead Nurse Children in Care

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Ashington; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization seeks a Lead Nurse for Children in Care to provide high-quality health care and support to vulnerable young people. The role involves direct clinical service, health promotion, and collaboration with various stakeholders to enhance health outcomes. Join a passionate team committed to making a difference in children's lives.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing health care to children in care.
• Ability to engage with vulnerable children and young people.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical service and advice to children in care.
• Lead and coordinate health care provision.
• Support health outcomes for children in care.

Skills

Communication

Organisational Skills

Problem Solving

Job description

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The Children in Care team provide high quality proactive health care to children and young people to enhance their health and wellbeing. This is a statutory service provided by a small multi-disciplinary team but works closely with North Tyneside and Northumberland local authorities and integrated care boards.

The team delivers a high standard of clinical care and assessments to address health inequalities and promote a healthy lifestyle for all children in care.

We are looking for someone who can communicate and collaborate in an engaging way with young people. We want someone who can maintain emotional resilience and remain child-centred when working with vulnerable children and young people. Excellent organisational and problem-solving skills are a must as you will be working in an environment where creativity on increasing engagement with young people in their health choices is vital.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the team to experience and learn within the role for 1 year. We want someone with good professional practice who wants to make a difference to these young people's long-term health outcomes. We are a small friendly, flexible team with a passion for well-being and achieving a healthy life and work balance.

For more information about this role, please see the attached job description and person specification.

To provide both a direct clinical service to children in care and advice and support to a range of professionals from statutory and voluntary agencies, carers and parents involved in their care

To provide a health promotion and advisory role for care leavers to promote an effective and smooth transition into adulthood.

To lead, manage and co-ordinate the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of health care provision to all children in care

To have key health worker responsibility for a small caseload

To support the Named and Specialist Nurses to provide services of a high quality that are evidence based and responsive to the needs of the population

To work with key stakeholders to improve the health outcomes and life chances for children in care

Assist in the development, delivery and evaluation of specialist training with regard to children in care to NHCFT staff, foster carers, young people, care leavers and staff employed by other agencies.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Anna Hall Job title: Specialist Nurse Children in Care Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07976212165

Anna's non working day is a Monday

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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