Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is a Top Employer Award Winner. We have a Health and Justice Services Directorate, within which sits the ‘Children and Young People’ Service line working in partnership with ‘Youth Custody Service’ colleagues to provide responsive, trauma-informed primary care, mental health, neuro-developmental and substance misuse services to the young people and young adults within our care.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see attached JD&PS for full details of duties and responsibilities.

• To be a confident, autonomous practitioner who takes responsibility for the care they give to children but also take responsibility for overseeing the work of others in the team
• To plan, deliver and evaluate interventions for treatment as clinically appropriate using evidence-based models. Co-ordinating multi-disciplinary clinical practice to provide focused and integrated care and treatment programmes/packages.
• To ensure processes/protocols are in place and followed for effective assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for those children with physical, mental health and substance misuse problems.
• To respond to and manage medical emergencies on site, ensuring that immediate, safe, and effective care is provided to children in line with clinical guidelines and safeguarding standards. To take clinical leadership during emergency situations, coordinating the healthcare response, and ensuring timely escalation to and liaison with external emergency services where required. The Post holder will be expected to maintain oversight of post-incident documentation, communication, and follow-up care to ensure continuity, learning, and adherence to governance processes.
• To safeguard vulnerable patients in line with Trust and Oasis Restore safeguarding children policy, and support other team members with safeguarding concerns.
• Demonstrating clinical leadership and challenging any poor behaviour to children, families or other staff members and creating a positive, inclusive culture in which everyone is treated with kindness and respect and the trust’s values are embedded in all practice
• To provide support to Oasis Restore school staff, parents/carers and children pertaining to the control of infectious diseases and conditions and give advice on the appropriate preventative measures.
• To promote an awareness of the public health role of the school nurse, in both mental health and physical health, and act as a resource to children, parents/carers, educational staff, other professionals and the wider community to facilitate optimum uptake of the service.
• To contribute towards curriculum planning and implementation of health promotion programmes, working in partnerships with education colleagues, partner organisations and health colleagues to deliver PHSE on site.
• Take a lead role in gathering and recording evidence which demonstrates that CQC and locally agreed standards are being met: assessing the performance of the whole team by using audit and benchmarking exercises and often contribute to the implementation of quality improvement initiatives
• Contributing to the performance management of teams and creating a positive culture in which the team can learn from mistakes and is enthusiastic to improve
• Deputising for the team leader and ensuring that there is no fall in performance in their absence. This may include managing the team and coordinating shifts.
• Provide supervision and annual appraisals to individuals and giving constructive, regular feedback which helps those individuals reflect on their work, understand their objectives and the CQC standards and monitor their progress towards achieving them

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered NMC nurse Adult / Child / Mental Health / Learning Disability
• Evidence of Continual Professional development.
• Mentorship Preparation or equivalent.

Desirable criteria

• Further post-registration training specific to candidate’s background and experience; i.e. training in CAMHS models of care, or in neuro-developmental assessment
• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse – School Nursing (SCPHN – SN) or willingness to work towards

Experience

Essential criteria

• Proven post registration experience relevant to secure and/or educational settings.
• Experience of working with diverse communities.
• Knowledge of, and experience of working with children with complex emotional, health and educational needs.
• Knowledge of key legislative frameworks relevant to clinical practice; i.e. the Children’s Act, the Mental Health Act and Safeguarding.
• Knowledge of trauma-informed approaches to nursing care
• Knowledge of child and adolescent development

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working with families in a professional capacity.
• Experience of conducting clinical audit activity.
• Experience in working as part of an integrated team, alongside non-health employed colleagues

Skills And Abilities

Essential criteria

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent Interpersonal skills.
• Ability to communicate in an effective way with people from a variety of backgrounds and different ages.
• Skills in communicating with and engaging children with complex needs
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of team working.
• Ability to demonstrate essential leadership skills
• Ability to reflect on clinical practice and to understand own limitations when dealing with emotive issues.
• Ability to act as a mentor / preceptor to students and newly recruited colleagues
• Good computer literacy skills.

Desirable criteria

• Skills in engaging family members in appropriate aspects of care, ensuring their input is listened to and valued
• Skills in supporting de-escalation of challenging behaviour and ability to model this for others

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Motivated
• Aware of own limitations and seek support from wider team.
• Ability to manage difficult situations and conflict resolution.

Other Requirements

Essential criteria

• Willingness to uphold the Trusts values