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Specialist Nurse Children in Care
The closing date is 10 August 2025
Do you have a passion for promoting and improving the health for children and young people aged 5 to 18 in care? An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Derbyshire Children in Care (CiC) Nursing Team working full time across our South Derbyshire caseload. We are passionate about ensuring children in care receive high quality health care plans within statutory time frames that support and improve their health outcomes. We are looking for a motivated and passionate Specialist Nurse to join our well-established, supportive and friendly team providing high quality statutory health assessments for CiC living in Derbyshire. Our base is in Clay Cross with nurses managing geographical caseloads across the county (this post is for the South Derbyshire caseload). We offer a variety of appointment types, mobile working and access satellite clinics.
The role covers all aspects of Children in Care including Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children, Care Experienced Young People and children with complex health needs residing in residential settings. You will require experience of Safeguarding to actively participate in a Duty Day rota, which involves attending strategy meetings for children in care living in Derbyshire. The ability to maintain excellent record keeping and complete detailed reports and health care plans is a vital element of the role, alongside managing a caseload and working safely alone in the community. The role can be clinic based, office based and visiting children in foster and residential placements. We offer a full induction and competency package to support this role, alongside Safeguarding and Clinical Supervision
Main duties of the job
Complete Statutory Review Health Assessments within timescales.
Formulate robust, high quality Health Care Plans
Complete comprehensive child focussed reports capturing the voice of the child.
Work collaboratively with other agencies including Social Care, Policy, Safeguarding, Education and other health organisations.
Provide information and signposting to Multi-Disciplinary Team supporting Children in Care
Participate in Duty Days calculated pro rata.
About us
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a well performing Foundation Trust serving a population of around 441,000 across the Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, North Amber Valley, High Peak and North East Derbyshire districts with a workforce of around 5,000 staff.
We are committed to working with our partners in Health and Social Care to deliver long term financial sustainability and resilience in our performance to ensure we provide high quality services and excellent patient care.
Job responsibilities
Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that are required.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
* Registered Children's Nurse/Learning Disability OR
* Registered as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse
* BA Hons Community Nursing (or equivalent)
* DIP Level 2 Modules in any of Family Planning, Asthma, Epilepsy, Counselling, Health Promotion, Continence Promotion
Experience
* Multi-agency working in School Nursing or Public Health Nursing with Primary Health Care, Social Care, and other primary care health providers
* Experience of working in the Community
* Experience of Lone Working
* Experience of working with vulnerable children and young people
* Experience of attending and participating in Safeguarding meetings
* Trauma Informed approaches
* Working towards Statutory timeframes
* Sexual Health Family Planning
* Child and Adolescent Mental Health
* Systm One
* Substance misuse
* Child Criminal and Sexual Exploitation (CCE/CSE)
* Children with complex health needs, disability/SEND
Skills and Knowledge
* Ability to relate to, communicate with and engage with children and young people
* Ability to function autonomously and as a team member
* Ability to use own imitative, prioritise and make decisions
* Good communication and interpersonal skills
* Good time management and caseload management skills
* Ability to work flexibly across nominated caseload
* Ability to formulate accurate reports of a good standard capturing the health needs of children and young people and the voice of the child
* Care Planning and reviewing health needs
* Legal processes/Court Orders
* Clinical Audit
* Improving Health Outcomes for vulnerable children and young people
* Consent
* Confidentiality
Personal Attributes
* A car driver with a full current driving licence (for disabled applicants, alternative arrangements may be agreed if necessary)
* Be prepared to travel to all areas within the geographical span of the Trust according to the needs of the service
* Be prepared to undertake relevant courses of study according to the needs of the service and as identified within the staff appraisal process
* Participate in Supervision
Demonstrate Trust Values
* Proud to CARE (Compassion, Ambition, Respect, Encouragement)
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.
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