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Safeguarding Children in Care Nurse
Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Warrington
On-site
GBP 30,000 - 40,000
Full time
Job summary
A community healthcare organization in Warrington is seeking a passionate Safeguarding Children in Care Nurse. The role involves supporting children in care, conducting health assessments, and ensuring comprehensive healthcare services. Applicants should have a nursing degree, experience with looked-after children, and excellent communication skills. This position offers flexibility and opportunities for professional development.
Benefits
Qualifications
- Significant demonstrable experience of working in a community setting.
- Understanding of the needs of the client group.
- Willing to undertake Sexual Health and Clinical Examination training if not already held.
Responsibilities
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate healthcare for CIC.
- Support CIC and their carers with appropriate health advice.
- Monitor emotional health and stability.
Skills
Education
The closing date is 12 November 2025
Are you passionate about supporting children in care and have a professional curiosity to ensure each child's voice is central to everything we do? Do you have experience working with children to help them reach their full potential?
This is an exciting opportunity to join an established Children in Care Team. We are looking for someone who is passionate about children in care, forward‑thinking, dynamic, and creative in their approach. You should be able to work across the Warrington and Halton area.
1 x Full Time – 37.5 hrs / week
1 x Part Time – 22.5 hrs / week
Please state preferred hours within your application. Hours will be discussed at interview.
The post holder will work with children, young people, their carers and a wide range of professionals across health and social care settings to ensure that looked‑after children and young people (CIC) receive the appropriate services to reach their full potential, as outlined in Promoting the Health and Well‑being of Looked After Children 2022 and the Inter‑collegiate Competencies for Looked‑After Children (2020).
The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of health care for CIC and care leavers. The overall aim is to ensure that children in care, care leavers and unaccompanied asylum‑seeking children’s health needs are met and that positive outcomes are achieved for this vulnerable group.
Flexible working will be considered for all roles.
Unfortunately, we do not hold a sponsor licence for working visas.
At Bridgewater, our PEOPLE values shape how we deliver NHS services in your local community: Person‑centred, Empowered, Open and Honest, Professional, Locally Lead, Efficient.
- To assess, plan, implement and evaluate healthcare for CIC, formulating a holistic health care plan for school‑aged CIC, post‑16 young people and care leavers.
- To support CIC and their carers with appropriate health advice, information, signposting and referral.
- To support social work colleagues in ensuring that any health needs identified at children’s initial or review health assessments are promptly addressed with ongoing follow‑up and reviews.
- To attend new‑into‑care planning meetings and assist with the compilation of information to inform the completion of quality initial health assessments.
- To attend and/or provide a written report for any statutory CIC health reviews, care‑planning meetings or CSE/Missing‑from‑care strategy discussions for CIC.
- To ensure that all CIC are up to date with their immunisations and to organise or administer outstanding immunisations in line with the Department of Health guidelines.
- To establish a drop‑in facility in children’s homes.
- To monitor emotional health and stability by interpreting SDQs and liaising with the Lead CIC specialist nurse/child’s social worker.
- To attend meetings on behalf of the Band 7 CIC specialist nurse in periods of her absence.
- To work in conjunction with the Lead Specialist nurse for CIC in the delivery of CIC training and the ongoing professional development of health professionals, social workers and foster carers.
- To provide professional leadership and health advice and support to health professionals including health visitors and school nurses and social workers within health and social care settings.
- To assist and participate in audits improving the quality standards for health services for CIC.
- To participate in regional and local strategic planning groups within CIC nursing.
- To support and encourage community involvement in decision‑making and policy-making, including the involvement of children/young people and carers.
- To work autonomously within own practice, managing a caseload of children and young people in care (school‑aged, 16+ Not in Education Employment or training (NEET), and Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers (UASC)).
- To undertake comprehensive health assessments on CIC both in borough and those CIC placed within Bridgewater from other local authorities in line with good practice and reciprocal working arrangements.
- To make clinical decisions to satisfy the expectations and demands of the role, supported by relevant evidence‑based practical theories.
- To adopt a flexible approach to working which may include travelling out of borough on occasions, or working evenings or weekends, to engage with young people and facilitate their access to health services.
- To be responsible for recording personally generated clinical observations and maintaining relevant nursing records and reports.
- To exercise independent prescribing rights in accordance with relevant legislation.
- To work in conjunction with targeted and universal children’s services to provide health promotion and advice to looked‑after children and young people, including those not accessing mainstream education.
- To work alongside the lead specialist nurse and named nurse for CIC to support the development, implementation, review and updating of CIC processes and procedures.
- To conduct professional knowledge acquisition through state registration, continuing professional development, specialist knowledge and experience.
- To ensure compliance with mandatory training and PREP requirements.
- To maintain clinical excellence through the ongoing development and enhancement of advanced specialist skills within the service area.
- To utilise computer literacy skills to manage information systems and enhance presentation skills.
- To provide specific health‑related training to other services as directed by the Named Nurse or Lead Specialist nurse for Children in Care.
- To offer clinical support, supervision and shadowing opportunities to health professionals.
- To develop a personal development and academic profile, undertake clinical audit and development programmes within own specialist area as directed by the Lead Specialist nurse for Children in Care.
- To establish effective networks with health, social care providers and private care providers and voluntary agencies.
- To use communication skills to involve children and young people, carers and staff in the development of CIC services.
- To communicate sensitive information to children and carers that enables joint care decisions to be made.
- To initiate discussion of complex information when planning care management.
- The postholder must not disclose any personal information relating to service users or employees, of the lawful business practices, of the organisation, either during or after employment.
- The postholder must comply with Trust policies that protect personal data in line with the NHS Confidentiality Code of Practice.
- The postholder will be responsible for maintaining clinical and corporate records in accordance with the Trust’s records management policies and data quality processes.
- Postholders with elevated IT access are held to the highest standards of use.
Compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974: the post‑holder is required to fulfil a proactive role towards the management of risk in all actions, including risk assessment, appropriate actions and reporting of incidents, near misses and hazards, and a statutory duty of care for personal safety.
The mental capacity act applies to all Trust staff. It is the responsibility of every person to keep up to date and ensure that delivery of patient care/services is conducted in line with local and national policy and the MCA Code of Practice.
The Trust ensures that all children/young people and adults are adequately safeguarded and protected. All employees are required to adhere to national and local safeguarding policies and act upon concerns accordingly.
Trust policy aims to reduce the risk of Healthcare-Associated Infection by implementing Infection Prevention and Control Policies to maintain a clean environment and highest standards of clinical care.
The NHS is smoke‑free. Smoking is not permitted on any premises or surrounding land, including car park facilities.
The post‑holder must attend any mandatory training identified for the role.
The Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer and aims to challenge discrimination, promote equality and respect human rights.
- 1st level Degree or equivalent Nursing qualification
- Willing to undertake Sexual Health and Clinical Examination training if not already held
- SCPHN
- Sexual health training qualification
- Clinical examination training qualification
- Significant demonstrable experience of working in a community setting
- Understanding of the needs of the client group
- Experience working with children and young people
- Experience with looked‑after children/children in care
- Experience attending Looked‑after Children reviews
- If you are related to a director or have a relationship with an employee of an appointing organisation, please state the relationship.
- Do you have the right to stay and work in the UK without sponsorship (share‑codes will be checked if applicable)?
- Ability to travel independently across the trust and on occasion outside trust boundaries to meet CIC needs
- Self‑motivated
- Commitment to developing the service offer for CIC
- Flexibility to work in accordance with service needs
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Excellent written communication skills, including record keeping, report writing, data collection, and evaluations
- Understanding of national policies relating to children
- Knowledge of statutory guidance on promoting the health and wellbeing of Looked‑after Children
- Assessment of care needs, planning, implementation and evaluation of care plans
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1975 (Exceptions Order). A submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) will be required to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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