Specialist Nurse for Children in Care

Employer Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Phorpres House Town Peterborough Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum, pro-rata Salary period Yearly Closing 14/12/2025 23:59 Interview date 22/12/2025 Specialist Nurse for Children in Care Band 6 Driven by our Trust values: Honesty, Empathy, Ambition, Respect; the Trust's vision is to provide high quality care to the diverse communities we serve to make their lives better. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Our cultural diversity, long term conditions and disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ staff networks are a key part of this commitment, creating positive change and helping build an inclusive culture across the Trust. Different ideas, experiences and backgrounds make us stronger and more creative and applications from all walks of life are welcomed - our processes ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process. Options for flexible working are considered for all roles within CCS, including job share opportunities, compressed hours, annualised hours, tailored working patterns and more. If you are interested in flexible working, please talk to the recruiting manager for this vacancy. Please note, the selection processes at Cambridgeshire Community Services are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills. Please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored, we remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills. Job overview Are you looking to specialise in children’s health services and support the health and wellbeing of children in care across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough? Would you like to develop your knowledge and skills in a role that truly makes a difference? Do you want to work for Cambridgeshire Community Services; a Trust that is outstanding with the CQC? We are a team of paediatricians, nurses, and administrators with excellent relationships with our partner agencies. We have consistently positive feedback from our service users. Our vision is to improve the health outcomes of Children in Care and achieve a standard of health and development as good as the children of the same age living in the same area. The team are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative, highly motivated, and passionate dedicated nurse to work as an integral part of a multiagency service to provide a seamless pathway and in accordance with the Statutory Guidance for Promoting the Health and Wellbeing of Looked After Children (DH & DoE 2015). Why not click on the link to the Job Description and find out more about the role. We look forward to receiving your application. Should we receive a high number of applications we reserve the right to close this vacancy after 5 December 2025 Main duties of the job Job Purpose The Children in care Specialist Nurse will work as an integral part of a multiagency service to provide a seamless pathway and aim to improve the health outcomes of Children in Care and achieve a standard of health and development as good as the children of the same age living in the same area in accordance with the Statutory Guidance for Promoting the Health and Wellbeing of Looked After Children (DH & DoE 2015). Job summary The post holder will work collaboratively with the other members of the Children in Care health team and all other CCS health providers, the Designated Nurse for Children in Care within the Integrated Care Board, the Local Authority, Primary Care, and Education to provide timely quality assessments that meet the needs of the individual children, young people, their carers and their relatives and effectively manage resources to assure a high standard and that recommendations from the written Health Action Plan are implemented. Expected results are defined but the post holder will decide how they are best achieved with the guidance of national and local policies, peers, and external sources. Working for our organisation Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives. There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey. If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development. Detailed job description and main responsibilities Duties and Responsibilities To provide all Looked After Children placed in Cambridgeshire a choice of a health assessment consultation face to face within the home, by video, by telephone or via a questionnaire to offer specialist health advice in line with statutory guidance. To ensure the resulting Health Action Plan is received by the relevant agencies, carers, and young people as appropriate and that they are carried out in a timely manner. Follow up in a 3-month period to ensure that any actions or outcomes on the health action plan have been met. Attend external and internal meetings for a Children in Care as required within capacity or provide a recent report. Play an active role in health promotion activities utilising Making Every Contact Count strategy. Develop own and colleagues practice by engaging in ongoing professional development knowledge and skills and sharing these, and those brough to the team from previous posts and engaging in peer supervision. Provide health and support to Local Authority workers. Support care leavers to maximise quality of their healthcare in adulthood and provide Care Summaries/passports of previous care received as far as is possible with information available. Provide quality assurance of Review Health Assessment for those placed outside Cambridgeshire to ensure equity of quality of care is provided to all Cambridgeshire children. Education and Training Be proactive in identifying own education/development needs in line with manager and continue to develop own specialist knowledge and practice into the needs of children and specifically those of CLA/Care Leavers, up to and including Level 3 Safeguarding Children training. Communication and relationship skills Provide and receive complex, sensitive information and use motivational and negotiating skills to elicit agreement and cooperation where they may be barriers to understanding and establish and maintain effective communication with a wide range of individuals and groups. Develop and maintain close working relationships with the Children in Care Health Team, partner health providers, Local Authority, carers and children and young people providing highly specialised advice and clinical support when required. Support Led Nurse to liaise with other CLA Health Teams across CCS to ensure effective working relationships and promote positive outcomes for all Children in Care. Analytical and Judgement skills Make judgements that involve complex facts and/or situations which require analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options. Planning and organisational skills. Plan and organise service requirements and own work to undertake provision, a broad range of complex activities such as of health assessment, meetings, follow up of action plans, quality assurance, and provision for health care plans for those outside the service expectation and generic email inbox which requires the formulation and adjustment of plans. Physical skills and effort Standard driving and keyboard skills, sitting, standing, and walking. Patient client care Provides specialised advice in relation to the care of children and young people in care. Policy and service development implementation Responsible for policies for own area of work and propose policy and service changes that impact beyond own area of activity. Financial and physical resources Observes personal duty of care in relation to equipment and resources used in such as weighing scales, stadiometers, and calibration of equipment. People Management Maintaining own professional development and requirement to take part in appraisal and KSF process. Receive and give appropriate supervision as required by Trust policy. Maintain up-to-date knowledge in own area of expertise and undertake development as appropriate. Maintain personal records of professional development as required by the NMC and Trust Mandatory training policy. Responsibility for information resources/research and development Regularly undertakes audits and participate in research and development and take an active role in collection of statistics and data using computer-based data entry programmes such as excel to audit compliance of the Children in Care health team and partner agencies. Emotional effort Occasional exposure to highly distressing or emotional circumstance Clinical and Practice Governance Observe and maintain strict confidentiality with regards to any patient/family/staff/ records and information in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act. Any data that is taken/shared as part of a phone call or transported, faxed, or transferred electronically must be undertaken about the Trust Information Governance and Information Security policies. The post holder must adhere to the Trust risk assessment and risk management processes. Be aware of and adhere to Trust infection control policies and procedures. It is a condition of your employment that you are currently registered with NMC and it is your responsibility to maintain your professional registration Undertake mandatory training and any other training relevant to the role as required by Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust. The post holder must participate in clinical and other audits as required Provide patients and their families /carers with information on standards they should expect from the team Participate in clinical, management and safeguarding supervision on a regular basis. The post holder is required to participate in relevant emergency preparedness process for their team. Person specification Qualifications RGN/RMN/RNC/RNLD/Registered Midwife Demonstrate knowledge and skills as an experienced community practitioner Evidence of continuing professional development NMC Registration Children’s Nurse SCPHN Evidence of post-qualification study in relevant area Level 3/4 safeguarding Training Experience Recent experience of working with CiC (LAC)/Care Leavers/Vulnerable Children Experience and understanding of the health outcomes for CiC (LAC) and the guidelines/strategies available to promote optimum health Evidence of assessment of care needs, planning, implementation and evaluation of care plans Experience of working with mental health, sexual health, contraception, substance dependency Knowledge & Skills Written and oral communication skills, to include record keeping, report writing, data collection, and evaluation Ability to work autonomously to plan and implement own workload Use of SystmOne for recording and reporting data On April 1st 2025, the Boards of Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust and Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust will come together to deliver services as a group, with a singular board operating across both organisations. Both trusts are high performing specialist community health and care providers working in the East of England. Both have a strong track record, with the highest ratings from the Care Quality Commission, best in class NHS staff survey outcomes, and a decade of experience in innovation and clinical development. The group model provides health and care services to a population of 3.2 million in their homes and neighbourhoods. We provide care that supports people from the very beginning to the very end of their lives. We will remain 2 separate employers until further notice and the specific role being advertised will be in employed by Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust Certificate of Sponsorship For roles that are eligible for sponsorship, applications from job seekers who require Skilled Worker Visa to work in the UK are welcome, and will be considered alongside all other applications. 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Name Tessa Bilson Job title CIC team lead Email address tessa.bilson@nhs.net Additional information or contact CIC team service manager, anna.watson25@nhs.net #J-18808-Ljbffr