Specialist Children In Care Nurse | Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

Posting date:	07 July 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro-rata
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	07 August 2025
Location:	Peterborough, PE2 9DS
Company:	Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Tr
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7318419/448-BCHS-7318419

Summary

Are you looking to specialise in children’s services supporting the health of Children in Care across Cambridgeshire to develop your knowledge and skills?
Do you want to work for Cambridgeshire Community Service, a trust that is outstanding with the CQC?


We are a small team of paediatricians, nurses, and administrators with excellent relationships with our partner agencies.


We have consistently positive feedback from our service users.


Our vision is to improve the health outcomes of Children in Care (Looked after Children) and achieve a standard of health and development as good as the children of the same age living in the same area.


The team are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative, highly motivated, and passionate dedicated nurse to work as an integral part of a multiagency service to provide a seamless pathway and in accordance with the Statutory Guidance for Promoting the Health and Wellbeing of Looked After Children (DH & DoE 2015).

Should we receive a high number of applications we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 20-07-2025

Job Purpose

The Looked After Children Specialist Nurse will work as an integral part of a multiagency service to provide a seamless pathway and aim to improve the health outcomes of Children in Care (Looked after Children) and achieve a standard of health and development as good as the children of the same age living in the same area in accordance with the Statutory Guidance for Promoting the Health and Wellbeing of Looked After Children (DH & DoE 2015).

Job summary

The post holder will work collaboratively with the other members of the Looked After Children health team, all other CCS health providers, the Designated Nurse for Children in Care within the Integrated Care Service, the Local Authority, Primary Care, and Education to provide timely quality assessments that meet the needs of the individual children, young people, their carers and their relatives and effectively manage resources to assure a high standard and that recommendations from the written Health Action Plan are implemented.

Expected results are defined but the post holder will decide how they are best achieved with the guidance of national and local policies, peers, and external sources.



Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.

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 citizen’s 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:
1. Children and young people
2. 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.


This advert closes on Friday 25 Jul 2025

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