Job Introduction
As a Children in Care Nurse, you’ll be working as part of Essex Child and Family Well-Being Service delivering services across Mid or West Essex.
Two fantastic opportunities have arisen for highly motivated and committed professionals to join the Children in Care Team in either the Mid or West Essex Quadrant as a Children in Care Nurse, for 4 days a week (30 hours) permanent contract.
This is a rare opportunity to develop knowledge, skills, and competencies in the field of Children in Care whilst receiving structured support and training via the Named Nurse for Children in Care.
The primary focus of this role will be to undertake the lead health professional role for Children in Care (aged 0-19 years) with complex health needs. This will include undertaking statutory health assessments and attendance at statutory reviews. You will be responsible for ensuring the health needs of this vulnerable cohort are met.
You will be a Registered Nurse or Children's Nurse with experience working in the community setting and must be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of child development. The post holder will be expected to work under supervision using their own initiative following training. He/she will receive on-going support and supervision via the Named Nurse for Children in Care.
You will need an ability to liaise and work in partnership with a wide range of agencies in the statutory, voluntary, and independent sectors to ensure a coordinated and holistic approach when undertaking and facilitating statutory review health assessments.
You will be expected to travel across your team’s area and therefore a car user is essential.
Please call Shelly Bebbington, Named Nurse for Children in Care (07970347129) for more information about this exciting role.
Main Responsibility
The Children in Care (CiC) Nurse will undertake the lead health professional role for CiC for a small caseload of Children/Young People. The identified lead health professional will undertake the Review Health Assessment (RHA), implement, and regularly monitor the health care plan and contribute to the child’s interagency care plan. The lead health professional should take responsibility for making themselves known to the child and their carers.
The CiC Nurse will: -
- Be an individual practitioner providing coordinated care for each Children in Care and young person
- Complete statutory review health assessments as requested by the Named Nurse.
- Act as an advocate for the health of each child or young person who is looked after.
- Promote the child/young person’s well-being and independence to help them reach their maximum potential in life.
- Work with the child’s social worker to co-ordinate the health care plan and ensure actions are followed up
- Be responsible for liaising with other professionals known to be providing a service to the child, in order to gather up to date information. This is required to complete a comprehensive and holistic child centred health assessment and care plan
- Act as a key contact for the child’s social worker
- Act as a key contact for children’s residential homes, providing drop ins and support as requested
- Attend statutory reviews if invited or ensure up to date health information is available to the Independent Reviewing Officer (IRO) and social worker as per consultation requests
- Details of the allocated lead health professional should be recorded under groups and relationships on the child’s electronic record
- Be responsible for the management of any concerns
The Ideal Candidate
You will be a registered Nurse or Childrens nurse with experience working in the community.
We have built organisation-wide committees in many specialist fields. You’ll have the option to join your clinical specialism, networking with professionals from across the country. We get together regularly, auditing and sharing standard methodology for innovation and service re-design. You’ll be a part of the pool of subject matter experts bringing together clinical and operational leads. You will be a part of quality improvements, research and development activity. Here we recognise and celebrate clinical excellence and dedication.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
Package Description
As a Children in Care Nurse, you’ll be part of our dynamic team. You will feel valued as a Children in Care Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 5 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a number of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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