Are you looking for an exciting new challenge? Do you want to make a difference to a young person's life? If so, you will be interested in an exciting opportunity to work within the children in care team in Birmingham. An opportunity has arisen for a band 5 nurse to work in the Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers team. The service has been running 3 years. You will work as part of a small team to support the health needs of unaccompanied young people arriving in the country. This is an exciting challenge for someone who is compassionate about meeting the needs of these young vulnerable people.

We work in the clinic setting and, in the community, visiting Foster Homes, and Supported Accommodation.

If you think this may be the role for you, we look forward to hearing from you

Informal visits or questions are welcome. Please contact The Team on 0121 4663648 or Jayne Timmins (UASC Lead) on 07849300085

Main duties of the job

The registered nurse will deliver high quality, holistic, compassionate health care to children and young people (YP) under the direction of a registered nurse.

Within the Children in Care Team the primary purpose of the role is to support the Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children's (UASC) clinic

The registered nurse will focus on assessing the health and planning care and interventions for primarily unaccompanied asylum seeking children but may be asked to support with other clients of the Children in Care team

About us

As an accountable professional it is expected that the registered nurse will:

• Act in the best interest of children/YP in their care, demonstrating a positive attitude towards working with children/YP with adverse childhood experiences
• Put children and families first and provide care that is child centred, safe and compassionate.
• Contribute to the safeguarding of children at risk in line with appropriate Safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Act professionally at all times and within the standards of the NMC Code of Conduct.
• Use knowledge and experience to make evidence based decisions and solve problems, whilst recognising and working within the limits of their own competence.
• Participate in the Trust staff nurse development program and other related Trust based learning opportunities
• Assist with health assessments and health care planning for children in care and within review timescales.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• To keep accurate and contemporaneous electronic patients records for children and families in line with NMC requirements and the Trusts Record Keeping policies and guidelines.
• To convey information, of a complex nature, to other professionals and to clients with well developed oral communication skills. This will include negotiating, showing empathy and reassurance, to have the ability to gain co-operation of others when needed and overcome barriers to understanding.
• To make use of appropriate interpreters.
• Support nursing input into specialist clinic/nurse led clinics.

• Including:

• Administering immunisations
• Venepuncture
• Urinalysis
• Testing for Sexually Transmitted Infections
• Referral to allied services i.e. TB clinic
• Health promotion

Person Specification

Personal qualities

Essential

• First Level Registered Nurse
• GCSE Grade A-C in Maths & English or functional skills level 2 Maths & English or equivalent
• Relevant experience of working with children and young people
• Ability to demonstrate sound knowledge and application of up to date evidence based clinical trends and practice
• Experience of productive multi and inter- disciplinary working
• Evidence of recent professional development
• Experience and ability to demonstrate an understanding of working with children and families in a clinical and/ or community setting
• Have an understanding of the challenges faced by UASC and wish to develop own knowledge
• Ability to generate communication which is relevant, concise, accurate and legible
• Ability to demonstrate individual responsibility to health and safety
• Ability to recognise and understand equality and diversity issues

Desirable

• Nurse RSCN/Child Branch
• Evidence of working in a community setting
• Knowledge of clinical audit and its relationship to research
• Knowledge of the clinical governance agenda
• Ability to use software packages appropriate to clinical care

Skills/knowledge

Essential

• Have an understanding of the challenges faced by UASC and wish to develop own knowledge
• Ability to generate communication which is relevant, concise, accurate and legible
• Ability to demonstrate individual responsibility to health and safety
• Ability to recognise and understand equality and diversity issues
• Ability to take part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities.
• Ability to organise and prioritise own delegated workload
• Ability to deal with nonroutine and unpredictable nature of workload

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Address

St Stephens Centre

171 Nineveh Rd

Birmingham

B21 0SY

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