Specialist Children In Care Nurse

Posting date:	08 July 2025
Salary:	£37,338.00 to £44,962.00 per year
Additional salary information:	£37338.00 - £44962.00 a year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	27 July 2025
Location:	Peterborough, PE2 9DS
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	C9448-25-0202

Summary

Duties and Responsibilities To provide all Looked After Children placed in Cambridgeshire a choice of a health assessment consultation face to face within the home, by video, by telephone or via a questionnaire to offer specialist health advice in line with statutory guidance. To ensure the resulting Health Action Plan is received by the relevant agencies, carers, and young people as appropriate and that they are carried out in a timely manner. Follow up in a 3-month period to ensure that any actions or outcomes on the health action plan have been met. Attend external and internal meetings for a Children in Care as required within capacity or provide a recent report. Play an active role in health promotion activities utilising Making Every Contact Count strategy. Develop own and colleagues practice by engaging in ongoing professional development knowledge and skills and sharing these, and those brough to the team from previous posts and engaging in peer supervision. Provide health and support to Local Authority workers. Support care leavers to maximise quality of their healthcare in adulthood and provide Care Summaries/passports of previous care received as far as is possible with information available. Provide quality assurance of Review Health Assessment for those placed outside Cambridgeshire to ensure equity of quality of care is provided to all Cambridgeshire children. Education and Training Be proactive in identifying own education/development needs in line with manager and continue to develop own specialist knowledge and practice into the needs of children and specifically those of CLA/Care Leavers, up to and including Level 3 Safeguarding Children training. Communication and relationship skills Provide and receive complex, sensitive information and use motivational and negotiating skills to elicit agreement and cooperation where they may be barriers to understanding and establish and maintain effective communication with a wide range of individuals and groups. Develop and maintain close working relationships with the Children in Care Health Team, partner health providers, Local Authority, carers and children and young people providing highly specialised advice and clinical support when required. Support Led Nurse to liaise with other CLA Health Teams across CCS to ensure effective working relationships and promote positive outcomes for all Children in Care. Analytical and Judgement skills Make judgements that involve complex facts and/or situations which require analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options. Planning and organisational skills. Plan and organise service requirements and own work to undertake provision, a broad range of complex activities such as of health assessment, meetings, follow up of action plans, quality assurance, and provision for health care plans for those outside the service expectation and generic email inbox which requires the formulation and adjustment of plans. Physical skills and effort Standard driving and keyboard skills, sitting, standing, and walking. Patient client care Provides specialised advice in relation to the care of children and young people in care. Policy and service development implementation Responsible for policies for own area of work and propose policy and service changes that impact beyond own area of activity. Financial and physical resources Observes personal duty of care in relation to equipment and resources used in such as weighing scales, stadiometers, and calibration of equipment. People Management Maintaining own professional development and requirement to take part in appraisal and KSF process. Receive and give appropriate supervision as required by Trust policy. Maintain up-to-date knowledge in own area of expertise and undertake development as appropriate. Maintain personal records of professional development as required by the NMC and Trust Mandatory training policy. Responsibility for information resources/research and development Regularly undertakes audits and participate in research and development and take an active role in collection of statistics and data using computer-based data entry programmes such as excel to audit compliance of the Children in Care health team and partner agencies. Emotional effort Occasional exposure to highly distressing or emotional circumstance Clinical and Practice Governance Observe and maintain strict confidentiality with regards to any patient/family/staff/ records and information in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act. Any data that is taken/shared as part of a phone call or transported, faxed, or transferred electronically must be undertaken about the Trust Information Governance and Information Security policies. The post holder must adhere to the Trust risk assessment and risk management processes. Be aware of and adhere to Trust infection control policies and procedures. It is a condition of your employment that you are currently registered with NMC and it is your responsibility to maintain your professional registration Undertake mandatory training and any other training relevant to the role as required by Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust. The post holder must participate in clinical and other audits as required Provide patients and their families /carers with information on standards they should expect from the team Participate in clinical, management and safeguarding supervision on a regular basis. The post holder is required to participate in relevant emergency preparedness process for their team. General Safeguarding people responsibility Safeguarding children and adults at risk of abuse or neglect is a collective responsibility. There is an expectation that all staff develop and maintain their role relevant safeguarding people competencies and comply with local safeguarding partnerships practice. Alongside this employee who are registrants are reminded of their professional duty of care. Safeguarding means protecting a citizens health, wellbeing and human rights; enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. It is an integral part of providing high-quality health care. Those most in need of protection include: Children and young people Adults at risk, such as those receiving care in their own home, people with physical, sensory and mental impairments, and those with learning disabilities. The post holder must at all times carry out their duties with regard to Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy. To be aware of the responsibilities of all employees to maintain a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors, and staff. All post holders must adhere to the code of conduct on confidentiality and be aware of and adhere to all Trust policies and procedures. This job description is intended only as a guide to the range of duties involved. The post holder will need to be flexible and adaptable in order to respond to other duties that may be required from time to time and the changes and developments within the Trust. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exemptions) Order 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure and Barring Service to be made to check for any previous criminal convictions. Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust is committed to the fair treatment of its staff, potential staff, or users in line with its equal opportunities policy and policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders.