Youth Justice Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

To work with multi-disciplinary professionals relating to school nursing and the youth justice system.

To manage your own caseload, identifying and responding to priorities. To plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care.

Contribute to the development, delivery and evaluation of health education programmes and staff training

To provide clinical advice and support to the team, provide caseload supervision, 1-1s and PDRs for junior staff. Provide learning opportunities, induction, and preceptorship for all learners.

Contribute to the development of, implement and evaluate new and existing policies ensuring that practice is evidence-based.

Maintain clinical governance processes, e.g., identification & management of risks and incidents

To co-ordinate and/or contribute to the health needs assessment of children under the care of the team, participating in the multi-disciplinary and multi-agency assessment & intervention of/for children & young people.

To provide clinical advice and support, on aspects of care for children & young people to families and colleagues within the teams, integrated team, and other agencies.

Take the lead professional/key worker role for children & young people when appropriate and work as part of multi-agency teams to support those on child protection, child in need and early help plans or those who are looked after.

To advocate for families within the multidisciplinary team and make referrals as appropriate.

To work closely with schools and education provisions and provide advice and support to parents and staff where children or young people have identified health needs.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• SCPHN School Nursing or an RN with demonstrable experience of working with children and young people delivering the healthy child programme
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Evidence of additional qualification or demonstratable of development of knowledge/skills through experience in a specialist area of support e.g., children not in education and training, under the care of the youth justice

Knowledge

Essential

• In-depth knowledge of child health of 5-19's and development
• Detailed knowledge of health and social care policy relating to children's services to include education, public health and safeguarding
• Knowledge of working with under represented groups or those in challenging situations e.g., young people in youth justice, not in education or training, in pupil referral unit or alternative education places
• Demonstrable experience of conducting holistic, person centred health assessments and planning care
• Demonstrable of managing your own caseload.
• Demonstrable experience of public health interventions

Skills

Essential

• To carry out holistic assessments and developing care plans for children and young people who are vulnerable or from excluded groups
• The ability to present information in an accessible format, having good presentation and skills
• Highly developed, effective interpersonal and communication skills
• Able to establish and maintain key relationships internally and with partner agencies and services
• Ability to make timely, sound clinical judgments and to work within a team and direct other team members to deliver high quality client care.
• Demonstrates leadership skills and understanding of professional responsibilities within the team

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Across Walsall

Harden Health Centre, Harden Road

Walsall

WS3 1ET

Employer's website

https://walsallhealthcare.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)