Cared for Children's Nurse

6 months ago

Middlewich, United Kingdom Wirral Community Health and Care Full time

Our values:

Compassion
Supportive and caring, listening to others.

Open
Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.

Trust
Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.

Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust provides high quality community health and care services which are responsive to the needs of our local population. Services are delivered by our dedicated and innovative multi disciplinary professionals and supported by equally committed staff behind the scenes. We strive to continue developing and improving our services by working with and listening to our populations, partners, commissioners and staff.

WCHC offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based services across Cheshire and Merseyside.

We are proud to support our Armed Forces Community as a Veteran Aware NHS Trust and are pleased to share that we recently achieved Bronze Award accreditation, in the . We support the armed forces as an employer; recognising the experiences and skills ex-military personnel have gained through their service.

Job overview

Are you ready for a new challenge?

We are offering an exciting opportunity for a motivated, ambitious and experienced nurse to take on the role as Looked After Children’s Nurse, supporting our Cared for Children in Cheshire East.

This is a varied and unique role for a practitioner with clinical expertise relating to safeguarding children and young people.

As a key member of the Safeguarding Children Team in Cheshire East, the Cared for Children’s Nurse will support the Specialist Nurses to provide a safe and effective health service to children and young people looked after by local authorities and placed within the local authority boundary of Cheshire East.

Main duties of the job

To support the Specialist Nurses Looked after Children to provide a safe and effective health service to children and young people looked after by local authorities and placed within the local authority boundary of Cheshire East. To support the Named Nurse in developing the service and adopting best practice methods of service delivery to ensure that national and local guidelines and requirements are met. Provide specialist advice, support and training on Safeguarding Children to all WCT staff; taking a leading role in matters relating to the health and wellbeing of looked after children. Work as part of the Integrated multi-agency team, ensuring that the Safeguarding Strategy is implemented across the borough and ensure that all practitioners can access advice and support about health needs of children and young people. Work as part of the Multi agency Team to ensure that the views of children and young people, and healthcare workers in linked services can influence the development of Cared for Children clinical practice within East Cheshire To work collaboratively with the multi-agency team, contributing to information sharing from across the local health economy including primary and secondary care to inform risk assessments, care planning and decision making

Working for our organisation

About the Trust

Our local and community based services support people to live well and independently, including:

0- / 0-+ Health and Wellbeing Services Community Nursing Sexual Health Wirral Community Cardiology Walk-in centres Speech and Language Therapy Teletriage Community Dental Social Care End of Life Care

As a Trust, we provide extensive continuous professional development opportunities through a diverse range of learning solutions, including virtual and face-to-face events, webinars and action learning sets. We subscribe to numerous memberships and licences to support staff development and continuous learning.

You can read more about the Trust via the .

The Safeguarding Service provides the organisation’s board with assurance regarding the effective discharge of its safeguarding duties in line with relevant legislation and national guidance. The service and takes a planned and systematic approach to monitoring, assessing and improving safeguarding capacity and capability across the organisations clinical services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This role ensures the health needs of Cared for Children in Cheshire East are supported to reach their optimum health.

The role has has distinct duties and responsibilities to achieve this goal

Inter-agency liaison and participation in multiagency meetings Advisory and Clinical guidance for 0 - practitioners and other professionals  Service Delivery Responsibilities through organisation and management of health care provision for a case load  Contributing and implementing policy, procedures, protocols and statutory guidance Participation in the planning and delivery of multi agency and Trust training Developing and participating in clinical audits

Person specification

Qualifications and Professional Training

Essential criteria

RGN/RN/RSCN/RM Registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse or RSCN Portfolio of evidence demonstrating continued professional development

Desirable criteria

Nursing Degree or allied health practitioner equivalent Teaching or Mentorship qualification

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria

Minimum of 3 years post registration experience as Health Visitor, School Nurse or RSCN, with significant experience of Safeguarding Children processes Sound working knowledge of Community Health Care provision Awareness of the legislative framework underpinning children’s health provision, safeguarding children and looked after children Ability to demonstrate appropriate assessment of needs of children and interventions required to safeguard children Participation in developments in practice. Experience of facilitating and delivering training to colleagues Ability to manage potentially hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmospheres, disseminating unwelcome information in a sensitive manner. Ability to prioritise workload and sound personal organisational skills

Desirable criteria

Experience of working with children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties

Skills and Attributes

Essential criteria

Excellent inter-personal skills including negotiation, influencing and presentation skills Excellent leadership skills Ability to make sound judgements regarding the welfare of children, demonstrating confidence in professional view and analysis. Ability to plan interagency interventions for children and families. Ability to influence, motivate and negotiate with others Ability to produce clear and concise written reports as required. Strong analytical and problem solving skills Ability to prioritise workload/work within and meet deadlines Effective presentation, facilitation and teaching skills. Self-management and motivation skills Confidence to challenge traditional practice and persistence to address difficult issues IT literate

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

Flexibility in Work Patterns Ability to balance work/home life Good Communicator Able to travel between sites

Important Information

By applying for this post you are agreeing to Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are appointed to a post information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record system.

For further information explaining how we use your information in line with GDPR please see our ‘Guidance for applicants’ document under the section 'Additional documentation'.

We are a Disability Confident and Mindful Employer. WCHC is committed to recruiting and supporting a diverse workforce and we welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of disability, age, sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, maternity/pregnancy, marriage/civil partnership or transgender status. We are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities. We actively encourage BAME, LGBTQ+ and disabled applicants and value the positive impact that difference has on our teams. We are committed to equality and diversity within our workforce and are keen to support reasonable adjustments to support our new and existing staff.

We are proud to support our Armed Forces Community as a Veteran Aware NHS Trust and are pleased to share that we recently achieved Bronze Award accreditation, in the . We support the armed forces as an employer; recognising the experiences and skills ex-military personnel have gained through their service.

Further Information:

Closing Dates: Candidates are advised to apply early. The Trust reserves the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date if a high number of applications are received.

Reference Information: Please ensure your application is submitted with referees who can verify your employment/ education history over the last three years and include valid business email addresses for them. The Trust will not accept personal references from friends or family.

Salary Expectations: The Trust pays staff in line with national NHS Terms and Conditions. Relevant experience may be considered when salary offers are made.

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