Specialist Nurse for Children in Care

Job description

Job 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.

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.

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.

Make judgements that involve complex facts and/or situations which require analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options.

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.

Standard driving and keyboard skills, sitting, standing, and walking.

Provides specialised advice in relation to the care of children and young people in care.

Responsible for policies for own area of work and propose policy and service changes that impact beyond own area of activity.

Observes personal duty of care in relation to equipment and resources used in such as weighing scales, stadiometers, and calibration of equipment.

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.

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.

Occasional exposure to highly distressing or emotional circumstance

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

Essential

• RGN/RMN/RNC/RNLD/Registered Midwife
• Demonstrate knowledge and skills as an experienced community practitioner
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• NMC Registration

Desirable

• Children's Nurse SCPHN
• Evidence of post-qualification study in relevant area
• Level 3/4 safeguarding Training

Experience

Essential

• 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

Desirable

• Experience of working with mental health, sexual health, contraception, substance dependency

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• 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

Desirable

• Use of SystmOne for recording and reporting data

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

Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

Address

Phorpres House

Unit 2, Phorpres Close, Cygnet Park, Hampton

Peterborough

PE7 8FZ

Employer's website

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