Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Named Nurse for Children in Care to join our Haringey team to support and to deliver a commissioned service which includes meeting statutory roles and responsibilities for children looked after, young people and care leavers from birth to 18 years. This is a trauma informed role working with children who have a lived experience of Adverse Childhood Experience and may be unaccompanied asylum seeking young people, children placed for adoption, or may have Special Educational Needs (SEND) and Educational Health Care Plans in place (EHCP). The children may live with family or connected persons, with foster carers, or in residential home settings in or out of the local area.
The Named Nurse will be responsible to and accountable within the managerial framework of Whittington Health.
The named nurse alongside the Designated Doctor and Specialty Doctors for looked after children are leaders in Whittington Health to ensure that looked after children's issues are reflected in policies, and service delivery across the provider organisation. They also have a responsibility to support theorganization to manage and quality assure health assessments for children placed in and out of area in line with the service specification and Intercollegiate document for Looked after Children: roles and competencies of healthcare staff (December 2020).
Main duties of the job
The Named Nurse will support the the Designated Doctor and Designated Nurse and Named Doctor to be responsible for day to day leadership to the team, supervision, lead on development, implementation, and evaluation of service delivery, ensure that policies and procedures are implemented and ensure statutory health assessments and health care plans meet quality standard in accordance with statutory guidance.
Lead innovation, influence change, and monitor the Children in Care service across the NCL community, to ensure adherence to legislation, policy and key statutory and non-statutory guidance.
Ensure the delivery of a high quality, responsive service to meet the health needs of the Children in Care population. This will be achieved through research-based practice and audit of quality standards. Facilitate the service on a day-to-day basis, through clinical leadership, managerial and operational responsibilities for the Children in Care team.
Provide a high level of operational expertise which aims to improve the health outcomes for Children in Care and care leavers.
Will be required to work closely with the Local / regional agenda and partner agencies. Overall, safeguarding the continuous delivery of high-quality services, identifying gap, and managing risk across the area of service delivery.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Be registered on either Part 1 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register or Part 3 as a specialist community public health nurse
- Have completed specific training in children and young people
Desirable
- Have completed specific post-registration training relevant to looked after children including Knowledge of health issues relating to Children Looked After
- Have completed a management programme with a focus on leadership and change management or willingness to undertake.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Will be able to demonstrate knowledge, skills and competences to level 4 of the intercollegiate document (RCPCH, RCN 2020)
- Demonstrate Level 3 to undertake statutory review health assessments
Desirable
- Have knowledge or skills in audit, data and report writing
- Have knowledge of working with children in a Trauma Informed approach
- Have a knowledge of working with vulnerable groups including children looked after, Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children
- Demonstrate an awareness of the complex issues involved when working across organisations and disciplines
- Have knowledge of working with children with Special Educational Needs (SEND)/Educational Health Care Plans (EHCPs)
- Have knowledge and skills of planning in relation to health transition of children from Child to adult Services
Occupational Experience and Abilities
Essential
- Have a minimum of three-years experience related to children and young people and relevant experience with looked after children and young people
- Be competent with IT, computer skills, health databases e.g. Rio,Liquid Logic
Desirable
- Have experience, knowledge and skills of undertaking staff one to one and group clinical supervision
- Have experience of multiagency working
- Have experience and knowledge of undertaking clinical audit and teaching
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Be registered on either Part 1 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register or Part 3 as a specialist community public health nurse
- Have completed specific training in children and young people
Desirable
- Have completed specific post-registration training relevant to looked after children including Knowledge of health issues relating to Children Looked After
- Have completed a management programme with a focus on leadership and change management or willingness to undertake.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Will be able to demonstrate knowledge, skills and competences to level 4 of the intercollegiate document (RCPCH, RCN 2020)
- Demonstrate Level 3 to undertake statutory review health assessments
Desirable
- Have knowledge or skills in audit, data and report writing
- Have knowledge of working with children in a Trauma Informed approach
- Have a knowledge of working with vulnerable groups including children looked after, Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children
- Demonstrate an awareness of the complex issues involved when working across organisations and disciplines
- Have knowledge of working with children with Special Educational Needs (SEND)/Educational Health Care Plans (EHCPs)
- Have knowledge and skills of planning in relation to health transition of children from Child to adult Services
Occupational Experience and Abilities
Essential
- Have a minimum of three-years experience related to children and young people and relevant experience with looked after children and young people
- Be competent with IT, computer skills, health databases e.g. Rio,Liquid Logic
Desirable
- Have experience, knowledge and skills of undertaking staff one to one and group clinical supervision
- Have experience of multiagency working
- Have experience and knowledge of undertaking clinical audit and teaching
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
