Named Nurse Children Looked After

Job description

Job responsibilities

Ensure CLA have their physical and emotional health and wellbeing assessed, addressed and monitored

To provide professional leadership and expert advice on CLA and CLs to health and social care professionals.

To ensure the CLA health service works to improve health outcomes, reduce health inequalities and safeguard CLA and young people through the provision of an evidenced based and needs led service.

To ensure every aspect of the user experience is delivered in a safe, efficient and evidence based manner.

Provide a co-ordinated resolution to the health and wellbeing challenges

Recognise indicators of child and adult abuse and initiate Safeguarding measures in accordance with recognised policies, and procedures, and relevant Local Safeguarding Children Board, Safeguarding Adults Boards and attend meetings as appropriate.

To communicate highly confidential, highly complex and in some circumstances highly contentious information to multidisciplinary colleagues and carers.

Collect, collate and disseminate health data for CLA as appropriate, producing times function specific reports as required using prolonged concentration and appropriate software packages when required.

3.2 Professional Duties

Provide clear, visible leadership, strategic vision and professional clinical expertise, promoting an ethos of best practice

Provide regular feedback and data on the progress/activity of the service.

The post holder will provide narrative against reported breaches of KPIs for the provider organisation and CCG commissioners.

To identify and manage any risk that could impact on the delivery of services ensuring that consistent high quality standards are met.

Demonstrates an understanding of appropriate and effective training strategies to meet the competency development needs of different staff groups

Promote effective consultation with other healthcare and social care professionals including participation in multi-disciplinary discussions/meetings.

Demonstrates an understanding and experience of developing evidence-based clinical guidance

Identify, design and deliver training and supervision for multiagency professionals and carers.

Demonstrate critical insight of personal limitations and an ability to participate in peer review

Maintain robust systems to investigate and report client, user or carers concerns or complaints and ensure effective learning is an outcome for staff and families.

Work autonomously with significant discretion to within the boundaries of the role as here described.

3.3 Managerial Duties

Take responsibility of staff that assess, plan and contribute to the implementation of health action plans for vulnerable children, ensuring that all staff are engaged

Provide day to day line management of the CLA team, providing leadership and objective setting and that appraisals are in place for each staff member, whilst dealing effectively with staff related issues

Monitor and highlight area of risk for discussion at meetings and bring to the attention of senior managers and commissioners.

Manage the development, management and monitoring of contracts or service level agreements, reporting against set KPIs and targets.

Working closely with social care managers and teams to ensure effective communication.

Participates in audit, and in the design and evaluation of service provision, including analysis of findings, the development of action plans and strategies to address any issues raised by audit and serious case reviews/internal management reviews/significant case reviews/other locally determined reviews related to looked after children

3.4 Financial Duties

Manage the service within a financial budget ensuring that there is efficient use made of available resources.

Identify and act upon any trends/risks or shortfalls relating to these budgets, seeking the involvement of the Service Manager where appropriate.

To support delivery of financial plans to deliver clinical services with particular focus on cost/value for money and delivery of agreed financial savings.

Ensure participation in clinical supervision and the PDP process, establishing a personal development plan in line with Post Registration and Education and Practice, and to meet NMC requirements for revalidation.

Engage in the organisation appraisal process ensuring own development plan is in place

Attend all mandatory training.

Comply with all Trust policies, procedures and protocols.

Carry out duties with due regard to the Trusts Equal Opportunity Policy.

Seek advice and support from Line Manager whenever necessary.

Maintain professional conduct including appearance at all times.

Ensure maintenance of Professional Registration.

Frequent and prolonged periods of concentration are required for up to 3 hours at a time. This is required for Planning and conducting Meetings

3.6 This job description is an outline only and is not definitive or restrictive in any way. It will be regularly reviewed and may be amended in the light of changing circumstances following consultation with the post holder.

Person Specification

Leadership

Essential

• Current professional registration on part 1 of the NMC register as a Registered Children's Nurse or part 3 as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse
• Evidence of post registration safeguarding/Children looked after training
• Educated to degree level in relevant area or equivalent level of knowledge or experience
• Significant evidence of professional development
• Significant experience in safeguarding children/children looked after
• Recent experience of working with vulnerable children and complex families
• The ability to demonstrate current nursing knowledge, skills and experience
• The ability to demonstrate current nursing knowledge, skills and experience
• Recent evidence of change management/ developmental work
• Substantial understanding of the complexity of working with vulnerable families and the impact of abuse and neglect on child health and development
• High standard of interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills

Desirable

• Recognised teaching and assessing skills
• Safeguarding supervision qualification
• Leadership training
• Evidence of involvement in safeguarding/LAC inspections
• Experience of contributing to chronologies, internal management reviews and the Trust incident reporting process
• Experience of developing and managing individuals/ teams

leadership

Essential

• Experience of developing and managing individuals/ teams

Desirable

• Knowledge of the legal definitions around children looked after

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Calderdale

HX3 0PW

Employer's website

https://www.cht.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)