Specialist Children in Care Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Specialist Nurse for Children in Care to join Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, supporting children, young people and care leavers across Greenwich and Bexley. Working with the Children in Care health team and key health, social care and education partners, the post holder will help improve outcomes by completing statutory and review health assessments, developing evidence-based care plans and providing expert clinical advice. The role will support coordinated multi-agency care for children in care, care leavers and unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, working closely with nursing, medical, social care, education, CAMHS, sexual health and voluntary sector colleagues. You will also contribute to service development, policy and pathway implementation, clinical governance, audit, performance monitoring, health promotion and training. We are seeking a skilled children's nurse with community experience, a strong understanding of safeguarding and statutory guidance, and excellent communication, leadership, organisational and partnership-working skills., The Specialist Nurse for Children Looked After is a Band 7 role within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, working across Greenwich and Bexley to improve health outcomes for children and young people in care. The post holder will work collaboratively with health, social care, foster carers, schools and partner agencies to ensure children looked after receive high-quality, timely and evidence-based health assessments, care planning and support. The role includes completing statutory and review health assessments, developing health care plans, providing expert clinical advice, supporting safeguarding practice, and ensuring the voice of the child is captured. Key responsibilities include managing a defined clinical caseload, supporting the implementation of national guidance and local procedures, contributing to service development, monitoring performance and KPIs, and identifying gaps in provision. The post holder will also provide leadership, training and supervision to colleagues and partners, promote best practice, support clinical audit and research, and contribute to policy and pathway development. Overall, the role requires strong clinical expertise, leadership, communication and partnership-working skills, with a focus on improving physical, emotional and mental health outcomes for Children Looked After, care leavers and vulnerable young people.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care