Nurse for Children in Care

NHS; Hereford; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Wye Valley NHS Trust in Hereford is seeking an experienced health professional to assess and support the health needs of looked-after children. You will work within a multi-disciplinary team to safeguard children, conduct statutory assessments and develop health action plans, while promoting health education and empowerment.

The role involves autonomy, cross-boundary collaboration and delivering age-appropriate care and advocacy for young people in care.

Qualifications

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills for highly complex information.
• Plan and prioritise own workload.
• Good organisational skills.

Responsibilities

• Work in a multi-disciplinary team to safeguard and promote health and wellbeing of children in care.
• Undertake statutory health assessments and develop individualised health action plans.
• Work with autonomy and professional accountability.
• Collaborate across Wye Valley Trust and Local Authority boundaries to ensure continuity of care.
• Promote the use of Language that Cares.
• Organise holistic health assessments considering physical, emotional and social needs.
• Prioritise new and unmet health needs and organise referrals.
• Support children to understand health and medical diagnoses and contribute to their plans.
• Provide age-appropriate health promotion, advice and education.
• Communicate with children/young people when communication barriers exist.

Skills

Exceptional interpersonal and comms

Plan and prioritise

Good organisational skills

Education

Registered General Nurse (1st level)

Specialist Practitioner Public Health Nursing

Nurse for Children with Disabilities

Job description

Job overview

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 inline 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 wed want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to attached job description/personal specification to view the full range of duties and responsibilities.

Person specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Registered General Nurse (1st level)
• Specialist Practitioner Public Health Nursing
• Nurse for Children with Disabilities

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills in order to provide and receive highly complex and sensitive information
• Plan and prioritise own workload
• Good organisational skills

EXPERIENCE

• Experience of working with foster carers and looked after children/young people
• Knowledge of Child Safeguarding Procedures
• Contribution to evidence based health promotion and education programs

Additional Requirements of the post

• Current NMC registration
• Ability to meet travel requirements of the post

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.