Named Nurse Children Looked After | Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 29 Rhagfyr 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum, pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 14 Chwefror 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Calderdale, HX3 0PW |
| Cwmni: | Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7705438/372-CORP2017 |
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The Named Nurse role is integral to delivering the statutory health service to Children Looked After (CLA) and Care Leaver’s (CL’s) in the care of Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council (CMBC). Incorporated in the duties undertaken is the promoting and enabling of CLA and CL’s to achieve their optimum outcomes for health and wellbeing.
The Named Nurse will operationally manage the delivery of health services for Children Looked After (CLA) and care leavers (CL’s) for Calderdaleas outlined in Promoting the Health and Wellbeing of Looked after Children (2015) and demonstrate Level 4 competencies outlined in Intercollegiate Competencies for Looked After Children (2015)
The Named Nurse for CLA is a high level operational roleand plays an important part in promoting good practice within the provider organisation.
The Named Nurse for CLA provides a high level of operational leadership and expertise and holds line management responsibilities for the Children Looked after team which aims to improve the health outcomes for CLA, and will ensure that there are systems in place to meet the health needs of CLA and CL’s in a robust and timely manner.
The role will provide a safe and effective operational service to support CLA and young people to reach their full potential.
Engage in effective strategic planning of services for looked after children
Identify and take responsibility for developing, implementing and reviewing policies, procedures and quality standards that reflect statutory requirements and recommendations of national guidance for looked after children
Monitortrends, quality and appropriateness of referrals, analysing and identifying gaps, duplications, and barriers to systems and take appropriate action.
Be able to work effectively on an inter-professional and interagency basis developing active partnerships with other organisation boundaries in the interest of CLA, CLs and their carers
Be able to identify unmet health needs/gaps in service provision and promoteinnovative service solutions that demonstrate CLA & CLs informed choices wherever possible
Know how to ensure legal processes and requirements for looked after children including after care are appropriately taken.
Be able to advise other agencies about the health management of Looked after children and Care Leavers.
Be able to apply lessons learnt from audit, case management reviews, significant case reviews to improve practice.
Be able to participate in and chair multi-disciplinary meetings as required.
Work closely with the Designated Nurse and Doctor for Looked after children contributing to the strategic development of services for CLA.
CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.
Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.
Ensure CLA have their physical and emotional health and wellbeing assessed, addressed and monitored
To provide professional leadership and expert advice on CLA and CL’s to health and social care professionals.
To ensure the CLA health service works to improve health outcomes, reduce health inequalities and safeguard CLA and young people through the provision of an evidenced based and needs led service.
To ensure every aspect of the user experience is delivered in a safe, efficient and evidence based manner.
Provide a co-ordinated resolution to the health and wellbeing challenges
Recognise indicators of child and adult abuse and initiate Safeguarding measures in accordance with recognised policies, and procedures, and relevant Local Safeguarding Children Board, Safeguarding Adults Boards and attend meetings as appropriate.
To communicate highly confidential, highly complex and in some circumstances highly contentious information to multidisciplinary colleagues and carers.
Collect, collate and disseminate health data for CLA as appropriate, producing times function specific reports as required using prolonged concentration and appropriate software packages when required.
3.2 Professional Duties
Provide clear, visible leadership, strategic vision and professional clinical expertise, promoting an ethos of best practice
Provide regular feedback and data on the progress/activity of the service.
The post holder will provide narrative against reported breaches of KPIs for the provider organisation and CCG commissioners.
To identify and manage any risk that could impact on the delivery of services ensuring that consistent high quality standards are met.
Demonstrates an understanding of appropriate and effective training strategies to meet the competency development needs of different staff groups
Promote effective consultation with other healthcare and social care professionals including participation in multi-disciplinary discussions/meetings.
Demonstrates an understanding and experience of developing evidence-based clinical guidance
Identify, design and deliver training and supervision for multiagency professionals and carers.
Demonstrate critical insight of personal limitations and an ability to participate in peer review
Maintain robust systems to investigate and report client, user or carers concerns or complaints and ensure effective learning is an outcome for staff and families.
Work autonomously with significant discretion to within the boundaries of the role as here described.
3.3 Managerial Duties
Take responsibility of staff that assess, plan and contribute to the implementation of health action plans for vulnerable children, ensuring that all staff are engaged
Provide day to day line management of the CLA team, providing leadership and objective setting and that appraisals are in place for each staff member, whilst dealing effectively with staff related issues
Monitor and highlight area of risk for discussion at meetings and bring to the attention of senior managers and commissioners.
Manage the development, management and monitoring of contracts or service level agreements, reporting against set KPIs and targets.
Working closely with social care managers and teams to ensure effective communication.
Participates in audit, and in the design and evaluation of service provision, including analysis of findings, the development of action plans and strategies to address any issues raised by audit and serious case reviews/internal management reviews/significant case reviews/other locally determined reviews related to looked after children
3.4 Financial Duties
Manage the service within a financial budget ensuring that there is efficient use made of available resources.
Identify and act upon any trends/risks or shortfalls relating to these budgets, seeking the involvement of the Service Manager where appropriate.
To support delivery of financial plans to deliver clinical services with particular focus on cost/value for money and delivery of agreed financial savings.
3.5 Managing Self
Ensure participation in clinical supervision and the PDP process, establishing a personal development plan in line with Post Registration and Education and Practice, and to meet NMC requirements for revalidation.
Engage in the organisation appraisal process ensuring own development plan is in place
Attend all mandatory training.
Comply with all Trust policies, procedures and protocols.
Carry out duties with due regard to the Trust’s Equal Opportunity Policy.
Seek advice and support from Line Manager whenever necessary.
Maintain professional conduct including appearance at all times.
Ensure maintenance of Professional Registration.
Frequent and prolonged periods of concentration are required for up to 3 hours at a time. This is required for Planning and conducting Meetings
3.6 This job description is an outline only and is not definitive or restrictive in any way. It will be regularly reviewed and may be amended in the light of changing circumstances following consultation with the post holder.
This advert closes on Sunday 25 Jan 2026