Are you a highly motivated and dynamic Band 6 Paediatric Nurse or SCPHN with significant Children and Young People experience wanting to join an 'Award Winning' team? Do you have a specialist interest in providing the best care for Children Looked After (CLA)?

We are seeking to recruit a permanent part time (22.5 hours/week) Band 6 CLA Nurse to join our friendly and supportive team. You will be required to undertake complex statutory health assessments, attend safeguarding meetings and support processes within our team to enable our CLA cohort to reach their full potential.

You will have an opportunity to negotiate a flexible and agile working pattern, alongside working from home with working hours between Monday and Friday 9-5. You will have a thorough induction period and will be encouraged and supported to further your development within your role.

You must be resilient, enthusiastic, and committed to team and multi-disciplinary working. Time management skills are essential alongside strong interpersonal and communication skills demonstrating an empathetic and compassionate approach.

Please see the Job Description and Personal Specification for full details and essential criteria. This vacancy may close early if enough applicants are received.

Main duties of the job

To undertake high quality holistic health needs assessment with Children Looked After and young people who may have complex needs and/or who are difficult to reach, making clinical decisions and referrals as necessary as part of a self-managed caseload, thus ensuring their health needs are identified and inequalities addressed. This may necessitate working in challenging home environments and/or residential settings.

Negotiate and develop individualised Child Health Care Plans to meet the identified needs and promote positive lifestyle choices of looked after children in conjunction with the medical team, other named health professionals and, where indicated, the child's parents.

Please refer to the job description and personal spec for further details of the role

About us

As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, fantastic pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will to experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan -- there is truly something for everyone!

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Children Looked After health team is responsible for delivering statutory health services to children and young people resident in Somerset who are looked after by the Local Authority, young adult Care Leavers and Somerset children and young people who are looked after and resident outside of Somerset.

The team is also required to complete statutory health assessments to children looked after, out of area, placed in Somerset. The aim is to ensure all Children Looked After receive a high-quality health assessment within statutory timescales to ensure their health needs are met and prioritised.

Please refer to the Job Description and Personal Specification for full details and essential criteria.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered on Part 1 of the NMC register as: Registered Children's Nurse or Part 3 as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse.
• Have completed specific training/programme with a child & family focus.
• Have a minimum of three-year's experience related to caring for babies/children & young people & relevant experience with looked after children & young people.

Employer details

Employer name

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Children Looked After, East Re

Level 2 East Reach House

Taunton

Somerset

TA1 3EN

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