South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Nurse - Children in Care
The closing date is 15 April 2026
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and innovative Specialist Nurse to join the Warwickshire Children in Care Team, South Warwickshire Foundation Trust. This is a senior level post, therefore, knowledge and experience is required to reflect this.
The successful applicant will work collaboratively with the Named Nurse/Specialist Nurses and Named/Designated Doctor to ensure that the organisation meets its responsibilities to Children in Care by carrying out high quality, complex, timely health assessments working in partnership with other agencies to ensure that the health needs for Children in Care are met in a holistic and timely manner.
If you would like to be part of our journey, we will welcome your application.
Main duties of the job
* To quality assess and monitor completed review health assessments for Children in Care including those with complex needs or identified as hard to reach.
* To work in collaboration with service providers across the local health economy and with partner agencies within and outside the county, to ensure that the health of Children in Care is a priority of practice and service provision.
* To undertake high quality, complex, timely health assessments for Children in Care, young people and care leavers including asylum seekers and work with interpreters as required.
* To engage with hard to reach children and young people in order to effectively ensure their health needs are identified and met.
* To provide expert direct clinical practice plus advise and support practitioners across the health economy in health matters relating to Children in Care, which is consistent with current professional standards and promotes best practice, as single agency and multi-agency events, supported by the Integrated Care Pathway.
* The post holder will provide expert advice, training and supervision to those who work directly with looked after children e.g. foster carers and social workers.
About us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:
https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2
We appreciate you completing the survey.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* RN/RGN/Specialist Community Public Health Nurse
* Master's degree in related/relevant subject or equivalent
Experience
* Significant recent post qualification experience with a substantial period at Band 6
* Experience of working with vulnerable children
* Experience of managing own workload
* Must be able to make autonomous decisions
* Experience of taking management responsibility / Leadership skills
* Experience of providing supervision for nurses / specialist community practitioners and administrators
* Experience of service development and innovation
* Experience of working with children in care
Skills
* Robust understanding of legislation and guidance relating to Children in Care
* Robust understanding of legislation and guidance for Children in Carel>
* Sound knowledge of national and local guidelines for Children in Care and protecting children
* Competent or willing to train to be competent in venepuncture
* Excellent clinical skills providing direct work with vulnerable groups
* Ability to lead on audit
* Chair meetings in absence of Named Nurse
* Use data to construct reports
* Excellent oral, written communication, report writing and presentation skills
* Must be able to demonstrate excellent negotiation skills across agencies concerning vulnerable groups
* Must be able to work confidently in a multi-agency environment and make autonomous complex clinical and organisational decisions
* Must demonstrate effective leadership skills
* Must be able to demonstrate effective management skills
* Must be able to make autonomous decisions
* Must demonstrate an ability to effectively plan, prepare, deliver, evaluate and update training packages in response to national and local guidance
* Must be able to demonstrate sound knowledge of Clinical Governance
* Evidence of continued, up to date extensive and relevant professional development and training at national, regional and local level
* Must have the ability to work as part of a team
Personal Qualities
* Must have excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills
* Must be able to demonstrate a robust understanding of the need for confidentiality in all aspects of the work of the department and ensure that this is demonstrated by more junior staff
* Must be able to demonstrate a sound understanding of equal opportunities
* Must be self-motivated
* Must be able to influence and motivate others
* Must be an excellent timekeeper
* Must be reliable and work with integrity at all times
Other Job requirements
* Must be a non-smoker whilst on duty
* Must have access to independent transport
* Must be willing to undertake Criminal Records Bureau to enhanced level
* Must be legally entitled to work in this country
* Must have sound IT skills or be prepared to undertake training and be able to work with a range of Microsoft packages
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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