Nurse For Children In Care

Wye Valley Nhs Trust; Hereford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

Wye Valley NHS Trust is seeking a Band 6 Specialist Public Health Nurse to lead statutory health assessments for looked-after children in care. You will work within a multidisciplinary team to safeguard and promote health, create individualised health action plans and coordinate care across local boundaries in Herefordshire and border areas.

The role requires an RGN with NMC registration and a Specialist Practitioner Public Health Nursing qualification, plus experience with foster carers.

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse (1st level) with current NMC registration.
• Specialist Practitioner in Public Health Nursing qualification.
• Experience with looked-after children and foster carers.
• Knowledge of Child Safeguarding Procedures.

Responsibilities

• Safeguard and promote health and wellbeing of children in care.
• Undertake statutory health assessments and plans.
• Work autonomously with professional accountability.
• Coordinate health care across local boundaries.
• Promote Language that Cares and effective communication.

Skills

Communication skills

Plan workload

Organisational skills

Travel requirements

Child safeguarding knowledge

Education

Registered General Nurse

Specialist Practitioner Public Health Nursing

NMC registration

Job description

Job summary

Professionally responsibility to provide statutory assessment, implementation and evaluation of the health care needs of Children and Young People in Care. To safeguard children and young people in care in line with local and national policy and deliver health enhancing activities and education to children, young people, carers and professionals supporting Looked After Children.

Main duties of the job

• To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to safeguard, promote and support the health and wellbeing of children in care following statutory guidance, legislation and Wye Valley Trust polices and procedures.
• Undertake statutory health assessments and develop individualised high quality health action plans.
• Work with a high degree of autonomy and professional accountability.
• Work across Wye Valley Trust and designated Local Authority boundaries to ensure the continuity of health care for children in care.
• Promote the use of Language that Cares.
• Organise, undertake and co-ordinate, holistic health assessments that consider the physical, emotional and social of children and young people in care.
• Prioritise new and unmet health needs for children in care, make appropriate referrals and liaise with identified professionals to ensure the health care for all children in care is timely with minimal disruption.
• Support and empower children and young people to age appropriately understand their health and any medical diagnosis and encourage their contribution in the development of their individualised health plans.
• Provide age appropriate health promotion, advice and education to children in care.
• Communicate with children/young person's where there may be a variety of barriers to understanding and communication.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we would want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust. They tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.

Details

Date posted: 29 October 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 6

Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum pro rata

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Part-time

Reference number: 229-COR-8376764

Essential qualifications and experience

• Registered General Nurse (1st level)
• Specialist Practitioner Public Health Nursing
• Experience of working with foster carers and looked after children/young people
• Knowledge of Child Safeguarding Procedures
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills in order to provide and receive highly complex and sensitive information
• Plan and prioritise own workload
• Good organisational skills
• Current NMC registration
• Full drivers Licence
• Ability to meet travel requirements of the post

Desirable

• Nurse for Children with Disabilities
• Contribution to evidence based health promotion and education programs

Employer details

Employer name: Wye Valley NHS Trust

Address: Vaughan Building, Ruckhall Lane, Belmont Hereford, HR2 9RP, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/

For questions about the job, contact: Kirstie Gardner, Named Nurse for Children in Care, [e-mail], 07970278430

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.