Designated Nurse for Looked After Children
The closing date is 13 May 2026. This role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts; the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Southeast Integrated Care Boards.
Main duties of the job
* Take a strategic overview of services for looked after children and care leavers across Kent and Medway.
* Through effective strategic commissioning, ensure the dedicated looked after children health service in Kent and Medway meets the national statutory requirements for looked after children through contract monitoring and escalation where required.
* Contribute to the ICB’s strategic commissioning model ensuring looked after children and care leavers health needs are explored through multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) and other policy making forums, ensuring that the needs of Looked After Children are included in planning arrangements.
* Provide expert clinical advice to the ICB, health providers, independent contractors and local authorities on questions of planning, strategy and the audit of quality standards in relation to health services for looked after children.
* Provide expert advice to commissioners, providers and partner organisations, ensuring that health services for looked after children are safe, effective, equitable and fully compliant with national statutory guidance.
* Provide detailed analytical reports on looked after children and care leavers for the Chief Nursing Experience and Quality Officer via the Director of Safeguarding to ICB Board, relevant sub committees.
About us
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal, and access to training opportunities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation.
Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Experience
* Registered Nurse, Midwife or Specialist Community Practitioner
* Educated to Degree Level
* Experience at senior level
* Significant post registration experience of working with vulnerable groups relevant to the post
* Multi-disciplinary working and experience of care planning
* Experience of change management in implementing national and local policy
* Experience of working within a looked after children\'s service
* Comprehensive knowledge of current looked after children legislation and guidance, and of health and social care policies relating to the post.
* Knowledge of application of NMC Code of Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice
* Knowledge of Data Protection, Human Rights legislation and national guidance on information sharing
* Clinical knowledge base in order to ensure compliance with statutory guidance and best practice and to challenge decision making of others
Attributes
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
* Ability to communicate with a wide range of people and in distressing and complex situations
* Ability to plan and prioritise own workload and manage time effectively
* Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
* Project Management Skills and Strategic planning ability
* Team player, Autonomous worker, Able to deal with conflict, Aware of own limitations
* Ability to produce accurate and concise reports, both written and verbal
* Ability to work confidently with other agencies, professionals and public
* Intermediate IT skills - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook; Good diplomatic and negotiating skills
Personal Values
* Commitment to the principles of public life, NHS values, the NHS People Plan and ICB values
* Personally driven, fostering a culture of continuous improvement
* Collaborative approach across organisational and sector boundaries
* Lives openness and integrity, creating cultures where these thrive
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board
£66,582 to £77,368 a year pro rata, per annum
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