The children's safeguarding team is 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.
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.
Our values are the golden thread which runs through everything we do, and 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.
Key Responsibilities:
* Improve the health outcomes for Children in Care (CIC).
* Support the Named/Specialist Nurse band 7 for (CIC) in ensuring that the organisation meets its statutory responsibilities to Looked After Children (LAC).
* 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.
* 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.
* Work as an effective member of the organisation's CIC health team.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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