Working hours are typically Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, though we are committed to flexibility with hours and offer hybrid working to meet the needs of the staff, clients, and the service.

If you a Band 5 Nurse looking to take the next step in your career or an established band 6 we would love to hear from you! Especially if you have an interest or previous knowledge of Looked After Children already!

Main Responsibilities

As a Children in Care Nurse you will work with wider team to provide a service that promotes the physical, mental, and emotional health of children and young people and support for families and carers.

You will:

• Assess, plan, and evaluate the health needs of children on the caseload, challenging and escalating concerns where needed.
• Undertake assessments, considering emotional, mental, physical, and sexual health, ethnic and cultural needs.
• Provide direct clinical services to Looked After Children, to ensure that where possible every child has an individual and holistic health care plan.
• Provide direct services, enhancing local co-ordination and communication between young people, carers, health, education, social services, and voluntary agencies.
• Provide quality care and health assessments making appropriate care planning recommendations, surveillance, advice, support and health promotion
• Deliver training to foster carers and other health and social care professionals.

For Further Responsibilities Please See The Attached Job Description.

The Ideal Candidate

To be successful in this role you will:

• Be a Registered Nurse with NMC registration
• Hold a SCPHN Qualification (desirable)
• A full UK Driver’s Licence and access to a car.
• Have experience and a passion for Children in Care.
• Have experience and an interest in Safeguarding
• It would be an advantage if you held a qualification/ knowledge in Contraception and Sexual Health due to the service’s strong focus on young people's sexual health

If you have an interest in working with this diverse group of children and young people including unaccompanied asylum seekers, we are keen to hear from you.

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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