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Looked After Children Team Lead | Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 05 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 07 March 2025 |
| Location: | Norwich, NR2 3TU |
| Company: | Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6980235/839-6980235-AB |
Summary
To provide Clinical Leadership and first line management to the Looked After Children’s health teamfor the purpose of meeting the health needs of children in care, as recommended in the Department of Health Statutory Guidance ‘Promoting the Health and Wellbeing of Looked After Children’ (DoH May 2002). This post involves active multi-agency working on behalf of looked after children, and the ability to develop a service for a specific client group.
This role will require the post holder to build effective working relationships with the medical team conducting Initial Health Assessments, the designated safeguarding children team as well as the operational management team and admin service.
1. To model best practice in health assessment and care planning for looked after children, including creating and implementing care plans and promoting access to services.
2. Ensure that the health of Looked After Children is positively promoted, encouraged and supported. Empower children and young people to take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing
3. Set up and maintain health promoting education activities for individuals and groups of children and young people, carers and professional staff using evidence-based interventions
4. To lead the clinical team in building the face-to-face service model of care for looked after children
5. To provide specialist advice and consultation to other professionals, volunteers, parents and carers in order to facilitate good health in this client group
6. To be proactive in using research and evidence-based interventions, and in consulting with looked after children and in the planning of services
7. To work with the Specialist Nurses and Doctor for looked after children to design services to meet the needs of the client group
8. Undertake Duty cover for the service on a rota basis. This includes attendance at Strategy meetings as they occur
9. Complete one Review Health Assessment (RHA) per week to support the performance model for the service ensuring that Children and Young People (CYP) receive their RHA within the 12 month timeframe.
1. To use new and existing data collection systems to provide information for performance measuring and to work with NCH&C officers to determine measures to enhance performance and promote good practice
To enable and produce these measures as reports for various performance monitoring forums, both within NCH&C and externally to system partners.
3. To work with Norfolk Community Health & Care (NCH&C) in the established Health Team for Looked After Children which provides a service across NCH&C, and its partner organisations in line with statutory National and Local guidance and recommendations including ‘Care Matters Care Matters: Transforming the Lives of Children and Young People in Care, (DfES 2006) ‘Promoting the Health of Looked After Children’, (DoH 2002
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1. To use leadership skills to build a first class service to this client group by team building and multi-agency liaison
2. To performance manage the team of nursing staff including appraisal, clinical, safeguarding and management supervision
3. To organise work load, travel, management tasks and liaison to utilize resources effectively including rostering for staff
4. Work to ensure that all CYP that are looked after living within Norfolk or placed in Norfolk receive their RHA within the 12 month time frame, this will include effective use of ledgers and appropriate management of Annual Leave etc to manage the nursing resource.
5. To be an active participant of the Safeguarding children team and to represent the needs of Looked after Children at meetings as required
6. To ensure those children who are Looked After by Norfolk Local Authority but are placed out of Norfolk County have their health needs met in a timely and consistent manner
This advert closes on Sunday 16 Feb 2025
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