Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Looked After Children's Nurse
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 393-NMUH-1487
- Employer
- North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Michael's Primary Care Centre
- Town
- Enfield
- Salary
- £49,178 - £55,492 per annum including HCAS (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Nurse for Looked After Children
Band 7
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity exists for a Band 7 Registered Nurse with current NMC Registration as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (HV) or Paediatric Nurse to work in our busy Looked After Children’s Service in Enfield. You will be an enthusiastic, innovative and highly motivated individual, eager to contribute to the leadership, development and implementation of a highly specialised quality service.
Main duties of the job
You will be based in a community setting, co-located with a multi-disciplinary team and managed by the Named Nurse for Looked After Children. The post holder is required to travel outside of Enfield, on a regular basis to attend meetings and provide a service to Enfield’s Looked After Children. This will include travelling long distances but only journeys that are achievable within the working day.
Health care professionals have an important role to play in enabling looked after children to overcome disadvantages and to reach their full potential. Our team works creatively with children and young people, in partnership with their carers, local authorities, other disciplines and agencies to deliver quality services to provide optimal health outcomes in complex situations.
If you can assess needs, willing to learn and develop your career and able to work independently and flexibly to meet service demands, we would like to hear from you.
A full valid driving license and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes is essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will provide a direct clinical service for Enfield’s Looked After Children, across the age range (0-18 years) and will be required to travel out of Borough.
- The service will ensure all children have access to a good quality health assessment with all initial assessments being carried out by a Paediatrician and follow-ups of children being co-ordinated by the Looked After Children Nursing team, including Enfield children placed out of borough.
- To lead in implementing Government guidance on promoting physical, mental and emotional health of looked after children and young people through targeted health interventions including health promotion initiatives.
- To ensure operational policies and local procedures reflect best practice.
- With the Named Nurse develop policies and protocols for specific issues relating to the health of children and young people in care.
- To work jointly with the Designated Nurse and Named Nurse to maintain a co-ordinated, multi-agency approach to the improvement of outcomes for Enfield’s Looked After Children - ensuring services are delivered in a sensitive and age appropriate way that recognises the importance of choice and diversity.
- To ensure interventions to meet the identified health needs are carried out in a timely manner, identifying and overcoming any barriers to these, including support to Social Workers and carers as required.
- To take clinical responsibility for developing, delivering and auditing high quality evidence-based health services to children and young people looked after by the London Borough of Enfield.
- To provide specialist advice, training, and support to Children’s Social Care, Health Professionals and others on the health needs of Looked After Children.
- To participate in all areas of clinical governance, quality improvements, evidence-based practice, data collection, outcome measurement and key performance reporting for this area.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse, RSCN, R/N Child Branch or SCPHN (HV) with current NMC registration
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Evidence of professional development in child protection and children in care
Desirable criteria
- Family planning course
Skills
Essential criteria
- Competent in using IT including Microsoft word, and Microsoft office
- Ability to prioritise own workload
- Ability to interpret, assist with implementation and adaption of Government policies, guidance and audit findings relating to Looked After Children and child protection
- Demonstrate a good understanding of the common problems affecting the physical/mental health of children and adolescents especially about Looked After Children
- To be able to work with a culturally/racially diverse population and recognise issues of equal opportunity and access to services
- Ability to communicate sensitive and complex information to young people, foster carers and other professionals of all levels and across organisations
- Ability to build networks which will support good working relationships across agencies
- Ability to work independently and effectively within a small team
- Ability to draw upon appropriate resources to be an advocate for children and support staff
- Ability to engage with disaffected young people who may be unwilling to cooperate
- Understanding of health promotion issues
- Ability to audit, monitor and evaluate systems and produce reports on the service
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum 4 years relevant post registration experience
- Experience of working with vulnerable, hard to reach young people
- Experience of working with children and young people with a complex and abusive family history
- Experience of working with young people regarding their sexual health
- Experience of working with other agencies, especially social services and commitment to inter-agency working
- Experience of working with children, adolescents and their families in a wide range of health settings
- Experience of planning and delivering training and health promotion
- Knowledge of national/local child protection policy and legislation
- Experience of using clinical audit to review service delivery and support service changes within a community setting
- Knowledge of the national childhood immunisation programme
Desirable criteria
- Minimum 1-year experience of working as a nurse for Looked After Children
- Knowledge of the C card scheme
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work independently, self-motivated and to work within a team
- Able to prioritise and plan work load
- Willingness to collect data to maintain service performance indicators
- Willingness to embrace and learn new skills
- Flexible team player
- To be able and willing to travel to see young people independently
- Ability to demonstrate excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
- Ability to produce accurate timely and meaningful reports and assessments
- Ability to work effectively through change
Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- To undertake out of borough health assessments as necessary
- To be able and willing to work evenings and some weekends
- Computer literate
- Car driver with use of car and with full driving licence
Desirable criteria
- Experience of excel spreadsheets and data base creation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Suzanne Harding
- Job title
- Named Nurse for Looked After Children
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 4526 7148
- Additional information
If you would like to talk to somebody about this vacancy then please contact either Mary Murrill, Designated Nurse for Looked After Children on 020 8132 2451 (email: [email protected]) or alternatively Suzanne Harding, Named Nurse for Looked After Children on 020 4526 7148 (email: [email protected]).
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