Nurse for Children in Care
Wye Valley NHS Trust
The closing date is 15 October 2024
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Nurse to join a dynamic and dedicated team promoting the health and wellbeing of Children in Care in Herefordshire. The Post Holder will be committed to team and multi-disciplinary working, have excellent communication skills, knowledge of the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences and how they affect the physical health, social and emotional wellbeing of children and young people. The post holder will be required to undertake complex statutory holistic health assessments, attend safeguarding meetings and support statutory guidance and processes within our team and across Wye Valley NHS Trust supporting our children in care to reach their full potential.
The Post holder will have the opportunity for an agile working pattern with responsibility for daily caseload management alongside working from home with working hours between Monday and Friday 9-5. You will have a thorough induction and be encouraged and supported to further your development in your role.
To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to safeguard, promote and support the health and wellbeing of children in care following statutory guidance, legislation and Wye Valley Trust polices and procedures.
Main duties of the job
Organise, undertake and co-ordinate, holistic health assessments that consider the physical, emotional and social of children and young people in care.
Prioritise new and unmet health needs for children in care making appropriate referrals and liaise with identified professionals to ensure the health care for all children in care is timely and any disruption to ongoing health care is minimalised.
Support and empower children and young people to age appropriately understand their health and any medical diagnosis and encourage their contribution in the development of their individualised health plan.
Develop individualised clear health action plans that are child centred and evidenced based.
Provide age appropriate health promotion, advice and education to children and young people in care.
Communicate with children/young person's where there may be a variety of barriers tounderstanding and communication.
Actively promote good health and wellbeing in areas such as sexual health, smoking, drugs and alcohol and with the young person's consent signpost to specialist health services.
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.
Date posted
24 September 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£37,338 to £44,962 a year pa pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
229-COR-6604120-A
Job locations
Vaughan Building
Ruckhall Lane
Hereford
HR2 9RP
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
Vaughan Building
Ruckhall Lane
Hereford
HR2 9RP
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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