Senior Nurse for Youth Justice

NHS; Workington; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in North Cumbria is seeking a Senior Nurse for Youth Justice to manage the health needs of children in contact with the youth justice system. The role involves coordinating care, supporting young people's well-being, and collaborating with various partners. Applicants should be registered nurses with relevant qualifications and substantial experience managing complex cases. This position requires excellent communication and leadership skills, offering benefits like a generous holiday scheme and NHS discounts.

Benefits

27-day holiday scheme

NHS Discounts

Salary Sacrifice schemes

Qualifications

• Substantial experience of managing an extensive and complex caseload at a senior nurse level.
• Experience assessing health needs and formulating care plans.
• Understanding of child development and health inequalities.

Responsibilities

• Manage an individual clinical caseload.
• Coordinate health services across various providers.
• Develop and implement health support pathways for young people.

Skills

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Ability to work flexibly

Effective leadership and decision making skills

Information management and IT skills

Planning and prioritization skills

Education

Current Registered Nurse - RN/Child/LD/MH

BSc (Hons) Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN)

Qualification in mental health

Qualification in sexual Health

Teaching and Assessing in Clinical Practice

Job description

Go back North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Nurse for Youth Justice

The closing date is 23 December 2025

The Children in Care and Youth Justice service are jointly commissioned by North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board and Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board. The service operates a countywide model and is responsible for:

• Supporting the health needs of children and young people open to the Youth Justice Service and Criminal Justice Liaison and Diversion (CJL&D) service supporting vulnerable young people whilst in contact with the criminal justice system.

The post holder will be primarily responsible for supporting the health needs of children and young people open to the youth justice service. They will also be required to work with children and young people who are subject to a care order, promoting seamless healthcare.

This post covers North Cumbria, the base will be confirmed with the successful candidate.

There will be an expectation that the post holder will also work from Youth Justice bases in Workington and Carlisle.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to:

• Manage an individual clinical caseload
• Be able to assess holistic health and wellbeing needs using a trauma-informed approach
• Develop and implement brief care package for common health needs—for example sleeping, lifestyle, sexual health, life skills, low mood/anxiety/emotional regulation/stress management and evaluate their effectiveness.
• Coordinate health services across a range of providers, promoting seamless, continuous health care
• Help develop specialist pathways of health support to improve health outcomes for children within the criminal justice system.
• Act as the health primary point of contact for young people, their families and professionals
• Foster effective working relationships with partner agencies in order to promote interagency collaboration
• Support the Named Nurse and Clinical Lead Manager in meeting their statutory and commissioned responsibilities.
• Work autonomously as well as part of team

About us

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’:

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.

Disclosure and Barring Service

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.

The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:

Standard Check: £21.50 + Administration cost of £5.90 = £27.40. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

Enhanced Check: £49.50 + administration cost of £5.90 = £55.40. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

Benefits

NCIC can offer successful future employees the following benefits:

• 27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years
• NHS Discounts*
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work*
• Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems
• *Subject to eligibility

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.

Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• oCurrent Registered Nurse - RN/Child/LD/MH
• oBSc (Hons) Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) in School Nursing
• oQualification in mental health
• oQualification in sexual Health
• oTeaching and Assessing in Clinical Practice or equivalent

Knowledge and Experience

• oSubstantial experience of managing an extensive and complex caseload at a senior nurse level
• oExperience of assessing health needs, formulating care plans
• oAn understanding of child development
• oUnderstanding of the Mental Health Act/Mental Health Capacity
• oAbility to provided targeted health support through brief health interventions
• oExperience and understanding of working within safeguarding procedures and guidelines
• oUnderstanding of the determinants of health and health inequalities.
• oKnowledge of relevant legislation and guidance such as The Childrens Act (2004), Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023) and Statutory guidance Promoting the health and wellbeing of looked after children (2015) Mental Capacity and other relevant documents
• oExperience working as a school nurse/ working with young people open to YJS/children in care
• o Leading and supporting staff
• oExperience of multi-agency, including Third Sector working

Skills and Aptitudes

• oExcellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
• oAbility to communicate with a wide range of professionals for various setting s, sharing own professional knowledge, skills and expertise.
• oDemonstrate the ability to plan confidently, prioritise and action appropriately.
• oEffective leadership and decision making skills
• oInformation management and IT skills appropriate for the role.

Other Requirements

• oAbility to travel throughout Cumbria and elsewhere to represent the Directorate independently of public transport
• oAbility to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust