Children in Care Nurse in London

As a Band 6 Children in Care Nurse you will be part of our valued team in our BSW 0-19 Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £37,338 - £44,962 FTE salary (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• 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 the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

We are looking for a compassionate and dedicated Children in Care Nurse to join our team. This is a rewarding opportunity to make a real difference to the health and wellbeing of children and young people in care. You will support the Named Nurse for Children in Care and the wider team to ensure the organisation fulfils its statutory and contractual responsibilities for Children in Care.

Deliver high-quality, trauma-informed care in partnership with safeguarding colleagues, CAMHS, and multi-agency partners to improve the health and wellbeing of this vulnerable group. This is a part-time position working 16 hours per week.

Responsibilities include:

• Undertake timely, holistic Review Health Assessments (RHAs) in line with statutory guidance and contractual targets, including QA of out-of-area RHAs and a proportion of 0–18 RHAs.
• Provide trauma-informed care, recognising the impact of adverse childhood experiences on behaviour, health, and development, and advise professionals, carers, schools, and residential units on how best to support children.
• Support children and young people to make healthy lifestyle choices, reduce risk-taking behaviours, and manage their physical, mental, and emotional health.
• Deliver follow-up assessments for vulnerable children or where health concerns remain outstanding.
• Provide flexible engagement through home visits, schools, residential homes, clinics, MS Teams, phone, or text.
• Ensure RHAs cover all aspects of wellbeing, including: dental, vision, skin, hearing, development, mental health, trauma, exploitation, immunisations, diet, lifestyle, neurodiversity, education, sleep, long-term conditions, medication, allergies, sexual health, substance misuse, and safeguarding.
• Support care leavers with transition planning and self-management of health needs.

For a full list of role responsibilities please refer to the attached job description.

Requirements:

• Be registered on either Part 1 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register as a registered children’s nurse or Part 3 register as a specialist community public health nurse and having completed a specific programme with a child and family focus.
• Have a minimum of two years’ experience in a role relating to health care for children and experience of Children in Care.
• Excellent literacy skills.
• Able to work effectively with children and adults.
• Must have ability to travel effectively across the locality.
• Full UK Driving Licence.

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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