The children's safeguarding team is incredibly excited to advertise a post for Specialist Nurse Children In Care to cover a 12 month fixed term contract/ secondment within the Trust to cover maternity leave.
We are looking for an experienced innovative nurse with community-based experience who will work as part of a team to ensure that the health needs of children in care are met. If you are an enthusiastic, motivated and committed nurse with the relevant experience and desire to achieve the best outcomes for children in care we would like to hear from you.
The primary goal of this post is to improve the health outcomes of children in care by continuously striving to improve services by listening to what children and young people, their carers and our partner agencies tell us.
The successful candidate will work as part of a team to ensure the organisation fulfils its statutory roles and responsibilities to children in care.
The successful candidate will also provide specialist advice, support and training to clinical staff, internal and external agencies and carers supporting the Named Nurse Looked After Children in all matters relating to the health and wellbeing of children in care.
Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.
Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.
We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.
Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do – they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.
We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.
The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.
* The primary goal of this post is to improve the health outcomes for Children in Care (CIC).
* To support the Named/Specialist Nurse band 7 for (CIC) in Gateshead in ensuring that the organisation meets its statutory responsibilities to Looked After Children (LAC).
* To promote and safeguard the well-being of CIC including delivery of agreed key performance indicators and ensuring the requirements of statutory guidance 'Promoting the Health and Well-being of LAC 2015' are met.
* To identify, assess and plan for the health needs of CIC who are living away from home in either residential settings, foster care or with kinship carers or at home on a supervision requirement.
* Contribute to research activities, ensuring evidence-based practice in the specialist area.
* Support all activities necessary to ensure that the organisation meets its responsibilities to CIC and Care Leavers
* Be responsible to and accountable within the managerial framework of the employing organisation.
* At all times and in relation to the roles and responsibilities listed, work as an effective member of the organisations CIC health team.