Specialist Nurse for Looked After Children and Care Leavers | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 28 March 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 27 April 2024 |
| Location: | St Helens, WA10 3TP |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6156771/350-CC6156771 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part time 22.5 hours per week Specialist Nurse for Looked after Children and Care Leavers to join our team.
There is a flexible opportunity for working hours and contracted hours.
We are seeking committed and passionate individuals who are able to demonstrate a genuine interest in the health and wellbeing of Looked after Children & Young People.
The post holders will work collaboratively across the Health and Social Care setting with a wide range of professionals and agencies within the public and private sector to ensure that looked after children and young people receive the appropriate services in order to reach their full potential, as outlined in Promoting the Health and Wellbeing of Looked after Children (2015) and demonstrate Level 3 competencies outlined in Intercollegiate Competencies for Looked After Children (2015).
See Job Description and Person Specification for full Post Description.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Promote excellence in clinical care by ensuring that practice is evidence based.
Contribute to the development, implementation and review of policies, protocols and guidelines in line with local and national policy.
Engage with and motivate colleagues and peers.
Work collaboratively at a clinical level to support practitioners in their practice.
Contribute to the induction of new starters within Looked after Children health and social care staff.
Act as an expert resource for advice, information, guidance and support for staff within health and social care.
Consult on complex issues in relation to looked after children, care leavers and unaccompanied asylum seeking children in formal settings.
Work effectively within the team as well as within the wider organisation.
Prioritise, organise and carry out own work effectively.
Actively promote quality in all areas of work across health and social care.
Implement, promote and maintain quality and governance systems and processes across health and social care.
Carry out individual health assessments in order to address the complex health needs of children in care. Conduct statutory Looked after Children review health assessments which includes developmental and emotional wellbeing of looked after children in accordance with national and local guidance and policies. This may be in home, clinic or other setting and may occasionally require the post holder to cross boundaries in order to undertake assessments up to 25 miles radius.
Carry and manage a clinical caseload of approximately 100 children and young people.
Provide additional support and brief interventions to children and young people including for example mental health interventions as part of the THRIVE model, sexual health interventions, immunisations, smoking cessation.
Provide health advice, support and training to professionals from other disciplines including foster carers on individual and general health issues to promote the health of looked after children and offer health promotion information regarding childhood issues.
Participate in clinical supervision and the Personal Development Process, establishing a personal development plan in line with Post Registration and Education and Practice, and to meet NMC requirements for re-validation.
Provide advice on health lifestyles and positive behaviour for looked after children, care leavers and unaccompanied asylum seeking children.
Promote good practice and standards of excellence at all times.
Maintain client/ patient confidentiality at all times unless in a safeguarding issue.
Effectively engage with hard to reach groups, offering outreach and creative methods to promote positive health outcomes for Looked after Children acting as a role model and advocate.
Operate an assertive outreach model with identified vulnerable clients; engaging them with a range of home or residential care home visits ensuring continued engagement.
Attend appropriate multi-agency meetings such as Looked after Children Reviews/MACE/Strategy meetings.
Attendance at Operational CSE/CE/Missing meetings as appropriate and liaison across health to inform of the risks to Looked After Children.
Please refer to attached Job Description for full list of duties and responsibilities.
This advert closes on Tuesday 9 Apr 2024