Lead Nurse Children in Ca...
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Northumbria Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust, Ashington, Northumberland
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Posted 2 weeks ago, 8 May
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Northumbria Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust, Ashington, Northumberland
- Onsite working
- Full time
- Temporary
Posted 2 weeks ago, 8 May
Job ref: 7a88c9fa458e4cefb5f433a2f362d3a4
Full Job Description
The Children in Care team provide high quality proactive health care to children and young people to enhance their health and wellbeing. This is a statutory service provided by a small multi-disciplinary team but works closely with North Tyneside and Northumberland local authorities and integrated care boards.
The team delivers a high standard of clinical care and assessments to address health inequalities and promote a healthy lifestyle for all children in care.
We are looking for someone who can communicate and collaborate in an engaging way with young people. We want someone who can maintain emotional resilience and remain child-centred when working with vulnerable children and young people. Excellent organisational and problem-solving skills are a must as you will be working in an environment where creativity on increasing engagement with young people in their health choices is vital.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the team to experience and learn within the role for 1 year. We want someone with good professional practice who wants to make a difference to these young people's long-term health outcomes. We are a small friendly, flexible team with a passion for well-being and achieving a healthy life and work balance.
For more information about this role, please see the attached job description and person specification., To provide both a direct clinical service to children in care and advice and support to a range of professionals from statutory and voluntary agencies, carers and parents involved in their care
To provide a health promotion and advisory role for care leavers to promote an effective and smooth transition into adulthood.
To lead, manage and co-ordinate the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of health care provision to all children in care
To have key health worker responsibility for a small caseload
To support the Named and Specialist Nurses to provide services of a high quality that are evidence based and responsive to the needs of the population
To work with key stakeholders to improve the health outcomes and life chances for children in care
Assist in the development, delivery and evaluation of specialist training with regard to children in care to NHCFT staff, foster carers, young people, care leavers and staff employed by other agencies., Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information from Multi agency partners daily.
Ability to communicate effectively, highly complex and highly sensitive information in a manner that is appropriate to the needs, of the following people:
Professional colleagues working in the multi-agency arena
Young people with additional needs
Families, carers and other members of the public
This will involve overcoming barriers such as lack of engagement, hostility and volatility from parents and young people and conflicting opinions with professional colleagues
Provide expert advice to staff employed by NHCFT and other agencies, e.g. Children's Social Care including education, residential children's homes, foster carers, and parents / carers. This is to ensure that the health needs of the child / young person are fully understood and that care plans reflect opportunities for optimum development through childhood and into adulthood
Liaise with Children's Social Care and other agencies over health assessments and personal health plans for out of area placements
Ability to analyse information into written child health records in accordance with trust and NMC policy
Ability to manage hostile, unpredictable, antagonistic or volatile situations effectively and safely, using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills
Participation in regular Multi agency meetings to discuss the emotional well-being of children in care
Participation in regular supervision that will provide support and recognise the emotional impact of working consistently with this vulnerable group.
Analytical Skills
Contribute to an analysis of the range of health needs for children in care i.e. health needs analysis
Contribute to the production and analysis of health data
Contribute to the children in care audit plan
Provide a high level of clinical judgment and decision-making during assessment and case planning during health assessments, during supervision with staff and when giving advice
Use of skilled analysis of complex facts and situations which are highly emotive when making judgments to ensure the child's safety and welfare for example when making extremely difficult decisions in relation to the future for children who have suffered or who are at risk of abuse or neglect. This will include giving a view on whether or not it is safe for the child to return to their carers and this view would need to be explained to the parents, the child and the professionals present at the meeting.
Work in partnership with other agencies, providing assessment and intervention as appropriate within the review process
Ability to explain and justify your professional opinion, including when professionals from other agencies may have differing views. The information discussed is frequently highly emotive and provided by various staff from several agencies and / or the parents or extended family members
Exercise accountability as set out in the NMC code of professional conduct.
Planning & Organisational Skills
Ability to plan and organise own tasks considering the service needs, diversity of travel and unpredictability of demand
Ability to plan and organise the tasks of the health administrators in the team as required
Ability to work flexibly to respond to competing priorities
Contribute to specialised training programs a year ahead, which includes multi agency training plans, considering changing demands
Act as an autonomous practitioner managing your own caseload, making decisions to prioritise client need, following trust and NMC guidelines and policy.
Manage and lead staff as appropriate within own team supervise their work and participate in appraisal process.
Be responsible for the safe use and security of equipment and resources used in the course of work
Physical Skills
Competent key board skills acquired through general use
Ability to carry to home visits (scales and height measurer)
To be aware of lone working policy and ensuring personal safety during home visits
It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Patient/Client care
Clinical Work with children, young people and cares
Key health worker responsibility for a small caseload consisting of children in care who are not attending school
Caseload responsibility for assessing, identifying need, implementing evidence-based interventions and evaluating the outcomes
Lead on the delivery of the Healthy Child program for the young people who are part of the caseload
Provide an expert young person and family centred public health response based on assessed and identified need and implement interventions to support the young person / family
Provide health interventions on an individual basis to young people, care leavers, parents and carers
Attend, submit reports and effectively contribute to multi-agency Child protection Strategy and Looked After Review meetings regarding the young people who are part of the caseload.
This will involve ensuring that the young person's health needs are fully understood, contributing to the analysis of risk which involves the analysis of highly complex and highly sensitive information and the development / review of plans to protect the young person and promote their welfare. The risks to be analysed are often in relation to high risk-taking behaviour e.g. misuse of drugs, alcohol, sexual risks, 'missing from home' and domestic violence.
Work with staff employed by NHCFT and other agencies
Ensure implementation of health plans for individual children (special schools)
The post holder will be a source for professional knowledge, guidance and advice to staff employed by the Trust and those employed by other agencies; outcomes for the child / young person
Communicate daily with other agencies and NHS organisations to ensure that highly complex and highly sensitive health information is fully understood
Collaborate and liaise with other professionals demonstrating and providing knowledge across a wide range of work procedures and practices underpinned by theory, evidence base and relevant practice experience
Participate in the regular meeting with Psychologists to discuss the Emotional wellbeing of children
Policy & Service Development
Develop and update protocols and Standard Operating Procedures for use within the service and within other services provided by the Trust
Contribute to the development of audits to ensure that practice is quality assured, effective and in line with Standards and procedures. Propose and Implement action plans to strengthen and maintain service delivery.
Raise any area of concern relating to non-compliance with Standards and procedures with the staff member, escalating concerns as appropriate.
Contribute to the development of practice and procedures within the service and those that other NHCFT services provide
Financial & Physical Resources
Responsible for the safe use of equipment and resources including portable equipment e.g. laptops / mobile phone
Human Resources
Be involved in the recruitment and selection of staff
Manage and lead junior staff or admin as appropriate within own team supervise their work and participate in appraisal process
Information Resources
Record and update patient and staff electronic and paper records in line with NMC and Trust policy
Able to use and maintain multiple IT systems and data bases to support work and training
Assist in the provision of accurate performance data for children in care, including awareness of key performance indicators
Research & Development
Contribute to audit relevant for own role
Freedom to Act
Manage and prioritise own work following Trust policies and procedures
Act as an autonomous practitioner, using initiative and acting independently within Trust guidelines
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Certificate of Sponsorship
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
+ Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
+ Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
+ A range of flexible working opportunities
+ Generous annual leave and pension scheme
+ Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
+ Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
+ On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
+ Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country's top performing NHS trusts - rated 'outstanding' overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people's homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise - a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people's lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
The team delivers a high standard of clinical care and assessments to address health inequalities and promote a healthy lifestyle for all children in care.
We are looking for someone who can communicate and collaborate in an engaging way with young people. We want someone who can maintain emotional resilience and remain child-centred when working with vulnerable children and young people. Excellent organisational and problem-solving skills are a must as you will be working in an environment where creativity on increasing engagement with young people in their health choices is vital.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the team to experience and learn within the role for 1 year. We want someone with good professional practice who wants to make a difference to these young people's long-term health outcomes. We are a small friendly, flexible team with a passion for well-being and achieving a healthy life and work balance.
For more information about this role, please see the attached job description and person specification., To provide both a direct clinical service to children in care and advice and support to a range of professionals from statutory and voluntary agencies, carers and parents involved in their care
To provide a health promotion and advisory role for care leavers to promote an effective and smooth transition into adulthood.
To lead, manage and co-ordinate the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of health care provision to all children in care
To have key health worker responsibility for a small caseload
To support the Named and Specialist Nurses to provide services of a high quality that are evidence based and responsive to the needs of the population
To work with key stakeholders to improve the health outcomes and life chances for children in care
Assist in the development, delivery and evaluation of specialist training with regard to children in care to NHCFT staff, foster carers, young people, care leavers and staff employed by other agencies., Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information from Multi agency partners daily.
Ability to communicate effectively, highly complex and highly sensitive information in a manner that is appropriate to the needs, of the following people:
Professional colleagues working in the multi-agency arena
Young people with additional needs
Families, carers and other members of the public
This will involve overcoming barriers such as lack of engagement, hostility and volatility from parents and young people and conflicting opinions with professional colleagues
Provide expert advice to staff employed by NHCFT and other agencies, e.g. Children's Social Care including education, residential children's homes, foster carers, and parents / carers. This is to ensure that the health needs of the child / young person are fully understood and that care plans reflect opportunities for optimum development through childhood and into adulthood
Liaise with Children's Social Care and other agencies over health assessments and personal health plans for out of area placements
Ability to analyse information into written child health records in accordance with trust and NMC policy
Ability to manage hostile, unpredictable, antagonistic or volatile situations effectively and safely, using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills
Participation in regular Multi agency meetings to discuss the emotional well-being of children in care
Participation in regular supervision that will provide support and recognise the emotional impact of working consistently with this vulnerable group.
Analytical Skills
Contribute to an analysis of the range of health needs for children in care i.e. health needs analysis
Contribute to the production and analysis of health data
Contribute to the children in care audit plan
Provide a high level of clinical judgment and decision-making during assessment and case planning during health assessments, during supervision with staff and when giving advice
Use of skilled analysis of complex facts and situations which are highly emotive when making judgments to ensure the child's safety and welfare for example when making extremely difficult decisions in relation to the future for children who have suffered or who are at risk of abuse or neglect. This will include giving a view on whether or not it is safe for the child to return to their carers and this view would need to be explained to the parents, the child and the professionals present at the meeting.
Work in partnership with other agencies, providing assessment and intervention as appropriate within the review process
Ability to explain and justify your professional opinion, including when professionals from other agencies may have differing views. The information discussed is frequently highly emotive and provided by various staff from several agencies and / or the parents or extended family members
Exercise accountability as set out in the NMC code of professional conduct.
Planning & Organisational Skills
Ability to plan and organise own tasks considering the service needs, diversity of travel and unpredictability of demand
Ability to plan and organise the tasks of the health administrators in the team as required
Ability to work flexibly to respond to competing priorities
Contribute to specialised training programs a year ahead, which includes multi agency training plans, considering changing demands
Act as an autonomous practitioner managing your own caseload, making decisions to prioritise client need, following trust and NMC guidelines and policy.
Manage and lead staff as appropriate within own team supervise their work and participate in appraisal process.
Be responsible for the safe use and security of equipment and resources used in the course of work
Physical Skills
Competent key board skills acquired through general use
Ability to carry to home visits (scales and height measurer)
To be aware of lone working policy and ensuring personal safety during home visits
It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Patient/Client care
Clinical Work with children, young people and cares
Key health worker responsibility for a small caseload consisting of children in care who are not attending school
Caseload responsibility for assessing, identifying need, implementing evidence-based interventions and evaluating the outcomes
Lead on the delivery of the Healthy Child program for the young people who are part of the caseload
Provide an expert young person and family centred public health response based on assessed and identified need and implement interventions to support the young person / family
Provide health interventions on an individual basis to young people, care leavers, parents and carers
Attend, submit reports and effectively contribute to multi-agency Child protection Strategy and Looked After Review meetings regarding the young people who are part of the caseload.
This will involve ensuring that the young person's health needs are fully understood, contributing to the analysis of risk which involves the analysis of highly complex and highly sensitive information and the development / review of plans to protect the young person and promote their welfare. The risks to be analysed are often in relation to high risk-taking behaviour e.g. misuse of drugs, alcohol, sexual risks, 'missing from home' and domestic violence.
Work with staff employed by NHCFT and other agencies
Ensure implementation of health plans for individual children (special schools)
The post holder will be a source for professional knowledge, guidance and advice to staff employed by the Trust and those employed by other agencies; outcomes for the child / young person
Communicate daily with other agencies and NHS organisations to ensure that highly complex and highly sensitive health information is fully understood
Collaborate and liaise with other professionals demonstrating and providing knowledge across a wide range of work procedures and practices underpinned by theory, evidence base and relevant practice experience
Participate in the regular meeting with Psychologists to discuss the Emotional wellbeing of children
Policy & Service Development
Develop and update protocols and Standard Operating Procedures for use within the service and within other services provided by the Trust
Contribute to the development of audits to ensure that practice is quality assured, effective and in line with Standards and procedures. Propose and Implement action plans to strengthen and maintain service delivery.
Raise any area of concern relating to non-compliance with Standards and procedures with the staff member, escalating concerns as appropriate.
Contribute to the development of practice and procedures within the service and those that other NHCFT services provide
Financial & Physical Resources
Responsible for the safe use of equipment and resources including portable equipment e.g. laptops / mobile phone
Human Resources
Be involved in the recruitment and selection of staff
Manage and lead junior staff or admin as appropriate within own team supervise their work and participate in appraisal process
Information Resources
Record and update patient and staff electronic and paper records in line with NMC and Trust policy
Able to use and maintain multiple IT systems and data bases to support work and training
Assist in the provision of accurate performance data for children in care, including awareness of key performance indicators
Research & Development
Contribute to audit relevant for own role
Freedom to Act
Manage and prioritise own work following Trust policies and procedures
Act as an autonomous practitioner, using initiative and acting independently within Trust guidelines
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Certificate of Sponsorship
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
+ Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
+ Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
+ A range of flexible working opportunities
+ Generous annual leave and pension scheme
+ Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
+ Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
+ On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
+ Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country's top performing NHS trusts - rated 'outstanding' overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people's homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise - a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people's lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
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