Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to be the Named Nurse for the Children in Care team in Liverpool. This role will be the strategic and professional lead within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust across the looked after children service in Liverpool, working in collaboration with other namedprofessionals to provide a high quality, evidence based service ensuring quality care to vulnerable children.
Main duties of the job
This includes being a source of expertise for The Trust and promoting excellent standards of professional practice.The scope of the post includes development of effective inter-disciplinary and inter-agency working, supporting changes across looked after children service delivery and clinical practice required by relevant national and local policy. It also involves ensuring thatappropriate and comprehensive assessments involving children and their families are undertaken and that supervision and support to staff undertaking such assessments is provided.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To develop and implement strategies, plans, policies and procedures relevant to looked after children services within The Trust which take account of national guidance and legislation.To ensure that appropriate and robust quality assurance processes are in place in relation to The Trust performance to enable discharge of statutory duties.To effectively manage statistical information and provide advice and support to both line manager and team managers within health and childrens social care.Manage and supervise work of the team members and delegate work as appropriate.To ensure staff work within the national and local policies and guidance.To support the commissioning process for the provision of additional services for the health and well-being of looked after children.To participate in the recruitment and appraisal of staff.To provide written reports for The Trust, Corporate Parenting Board across the footprint of The Trust as and when required.Gather, analyse and interpret complex information relating to looked after children in order to make timely and effective decisions relating to health provision, developing and modifying models of information management where necessary.Maintain professional registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council and adhere to the statutory Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Conduct and all Trust policies, procedures, protocols and guidanceTo work autonomously, and on own initiative to manage workload and the future developments of the service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To develop and implement strategies, plans, policies and procedures relevant to looked after children services within The Trust which take account of national guidance and legislation.To ensure that appropriate and robust quality assurance processes are in place in relation to The Trust performance to enable discharge of statutory duties.To effectively manage statistical information and provide advice and support to both line manager and team managers within health and childrens social care.Manage and supervise work of the team members and delegate work as appropriate.To ensure staff work within the national and local policies and guidance.To support the commissioning process for the provision of additional services for the health and well-being of looked after children.To participate in the recruitment and appraisal of staff.To provide written reports for The Trust, Corporate Parenting Board across the footprint of The Trust as and when required.Gather, analyse and interpret complex information relating to looked after children in order to make timely and effective decisions relating to health provision, developing and modifying models of information management where necessary.Maintain professional registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council and adhere to the statutory Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Conduct and all Trust policies, procedures, protocols and guidanceTo work autonomously, and on own initiative to manage workload and the future developments of the service.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Community Specialist Practitioner Qualification
- First Level Nurse with current NMC registration
Desirable
- Children's Nurse
- Relevant safeguarding module at level 6
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Experience of effective multi-agency working including liaison with police and legal services
- Evidence of working across geographical and organisational boundaries
- Formulation and implementation of relevant policy and procedure
- Experience and evidence of strategy development and implementation
- Experience of leading audit / quality assurance
- Experience of effective report writing
- Effective multidisciplinary/multi agency working
- Experience of leading groups/managing teams
- In depth knowledge of relevant legislation and policy relating to looked after children
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Engaging leadership style
Skills
Essential
- An understanding of looked after children issues across disciplines and agencies
- Clinical leadership and management skills
- Able to work under pressure within a highly emotive climate and to meet deadlines
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Demonstrate continuous professional development
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Community Specialist Practitioner Qualification
- First Level Nurse with current NMC registration
Desirable
- Children's Nurse
- Relevant safeguarding module at level 6
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Experience of effective multi-agency working including liaison with police and legal services
- Evidence of working across geographical and organisational boundaries
- Formulation and implementation of relevant policy and procedure
- Experience and evidence of strategy development and implementation
- Experience of leading audit / quality assurance
- Experience of effective report writing
- Effective multidisciplinary/multi agency working
- Experience of leading groups/managing teams
- In depth knowledge of relevant legislation and policy relating to looked after children
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Engaging leadership style
Skills
Essential
- An understanding of looked after children issues across disciplines and agencies
- Clinical leadership and management skills
- Able to work under pressure within a highly emotive climate and to meet deadlines
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Demonstrate continuous professional development
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
