Job summary
Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts; the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Southeast Integrated Care Boards
We're seeking two experienced and highly motivated Designated Nurses for Looked After Children to provide senior clinical leadership and strategic oversight for the health needs of looked after children and care leavers across Kent and Medway.These pivotal roles sit within the ICB Chief Nursing Experience and Quality Officer division and focus on strategic commissioning, safeguarding assurance and system leadership, rather than direct clinical caseload management.Working at system level, you will help shape policy, influence service design, and ensure that the voices and health needs of looked after children and care leavers are central to planning and decision making across the health and care system.
The Designated Nurse for Looked After Children will deliver expert strategic leadership and direction for looked after children throughout Kent and Medway, whilst managing the quality and performance of commissioned looked after children services. You'll provide expert advice to the ICB and contribute to the planning and commissioning of services for children ensuring the needs of Looked After Children and Care Leavers are central to this process
Main duties of the job
- Take a strategic overview of services for looked after children and are leavers across Kent and Medway.
- Through effective strategic commissioning, ensure the dedicated looked after children health service in Kent and Medway meets the national statutory requirements for looked after children through appreciate contract monitoring and escalation where required.
- Contribute to the ICBs strategic commissioning model ensuring looked after children and care leavers health needs are explored through multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) and other policy making forums ensuring that the needs of Looked After Children are included in planning arrangements.
- Provide expert clinical advice to the ICB, health providers, independent contractors and local authorities on questions of planning, strategy and the audit of quality standards in relation to health services for looked after children.
- Provide expert advice to commissioners, providers and partner organisations, ensuring that health services for looked after children are safe, effective, equitable and fully compliant with national statutory guidance
- Provide detailed analytical reports on looked after children and care leavers for the Chief Nursing Experience and Quality Officer via the Director of Safeguarding to ICB Board, relevant sub committees.
About us
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal, and access to training opportunities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know so they can help you with this.
All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know so they can help you with this.
All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Experience
Essential
- Registered Nurse, Midwife or Specialist Community Practitioner
- Educated to Degree Level
- Experience at senior level
- Significant post registration experience of working with vulnerable groups relevant to the post
- Multi-disciplinary working and experience of care planning
- Experience of change management in implementing national and local policy
- Experience of working within a looked after children's service
Competencies
Essential
- Comprehensive knowledge of current looked after children legislation and guidance, and of health and social care policies relating to the post.
- Knowledge of application of NMC Code of Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice
- Knowledge of Data Protection, Human Rights legislation and national guidance on information sharing
- Clinical knowledge base in order to ensure compliance with statutory guidance and best practice and to challenge decision making of others
attributes
Essential
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of people and in distressing and complex situations
- Ability to plan and prioritise own workload and manage time effectively
- Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
- Project Management Skills and Strategic planning ability
- Team player, Autonomous worker, Able to deal with conflict, Aware of own limitations
- Ability to produce accurate and concise reports, both written and verbal
- Ability to work confidently with other agencies, professionals and public.
- Intermediate IT skills - word, excel, power point, outlook o Good diplomatic and negotiating skills
Personal Values
Essential
- Commitment to the principles of public life, NHS values, the NHS People Plan and ICB values
- Personally driven, fostering a culture of continuous improvement
- Collaborative approach across organisational and sector boundaries
- Lives openness and integrity, creating cultures where these thrive
Person Specification
Qualifications and Experience
Essential
- Registered Nurse, Midwife or Specialist Community Practitioner
- Educated to Degree Level
- Experience at senior level
- Significant post registration experience of working with vulnerable groups relevant to the post
- Multi-disciplinary working and experience of care planning
- Experience of change management in implementing national and local policy
- Experience of working within a looked after children's service
Competencies
Essential
- Comprehensive knowledge of current looked after children legislation and guidance, and of health and social care policies relating to the post.
- Knowledge of application of NMC Code of Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice
- Knowledge of Data Protection, Human Rights legislation and national guidance on information sharing
- Clinical knowledge base in order to ensure compliance with statutory guidance and best practice and to challenge decision making of others
attributes
Essential
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of people and in distressing and complex situations
- Ability to plan and prioritise own workload and manage time effectively
- Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
- Project Management Skills and Strategic planning ability
- Team player, Autonomous worker, Able to deal with conflict, Aware of own limitations
- Ability to produce accurate and concise reports, both written and verbal
- Ability to work confidently with other agencies, professionals and public.
- Intermediate IT skills - word, excel, power point, outlook o Good diplomatic and negotiating skills
Personal Values
Essential
- Commitment to the principles of public life, NHS values, the NHS People Plan and ICB values
- Personally driven, fostering a culture of continuous improvement
- Collaborative approach across organisational and sector boundaries
- Lives openness and integrity, creating cultures where these thrive
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.
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).
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.
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).
