Job Introduction
As a Children in Care Nurse Advisor, you’ll be working as part of Essex Child and Family Well-Being Service delivering services across North East Essex.
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and committed professional to join the Looked After Children’s Team in the North Essex Quadrant as a Children in Care Nurse Advisor, for 3 days a week (22.5 hours).
This is a rare opportunity to develop knowledge, skills and competencies in this specialist field 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 complex children in care aged 5-19 years. This will include undertaking statutory health assessments and attendance at children's looked after reviews. You will be responsible for ensuring the health needs of this vulnerable cohort are met.
You will be a qualified registered nurse or children’s nurse and/or Health Visitor/ School 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 co-ordinated and holistic approach when undertaking and facilitating statutory review health assessments.
You will be expected to travel across the North East Essex area and therefore a car user is essential.
Please call Lisa Gooding, Named Nurse for Children in Care (07973 686522) for more information about this exciting role.
Main Responsibility
The Children in Care Nurse Advisor will undertake the lead health professional role for CIC who have been identified to have complex health needs. 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 Children in Care Nurse Advisor will: -
- Be an individual practitioner providing co-ordinated care for each looked after child and young person
- Complete statutory review health assessments as requested by the Children in Care Named Nurse or LAC Administrator
- Act as an advocate for the health of each child or young person who is looked after.
- To develop programmes/pathways that support young people in care to make healthy lifestlye choices to reduce risk taking behaviours and optimise thier health outcomes.
- 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 children's looked after 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
- Contribute to the delivery of training for health staff and inter agency training.
The Ideal Candidate
You will have a registered Nurse or Children’s nurse (or registered school nurse of health visitor) qualification with experience working in the community.
You will have a knowledge and understanding of the health needs and complex health issues affecting children in care and you must be able to work effectively with children, young people and adults. Knowledge of trauma informed practice would be desirable.
You will have excellent communication skills and be able to support children and young people with complex health needs and be able to advocate for them in multidisciplinary forums.
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
You will feel valued as a Band 6 Children in Care Nurse Advisor with HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £33,706- 40,588 and AfC terms and conditions –including an NHS pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- On-site car parking!
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day 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 majority 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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