# Named Nurse Children In Care

**Company**: Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
**Location**: Tottenham
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £63,665 to £70,887 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Named Nurse for Children in Care to join our Haringey team to support and deliver a commissioned service which includes meeting statutory roles and responsibilities for children looked after, young people and care leavers from birth to 18 years.

This is a trauma-informed role working with children who have a lived experience of Adverse Childhood Experience and may be unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people, children placed for adoption, or may have Special Educational Needs (SEND) and Educational Health Care Plans in place (EHCP).

The Named Nurse will be responsible to and accountable within the managerial framework of Whittington Health.

The Named Nurse alongside the Named Doctor, Designated Doctor and Specialty Doctors for looked after children are leaders in Whittington Health to ensure that looked after children's issues are reflected in policies, and service delivery across the provider organisation.

**Main duties of the job**

- Support the Designated Doctor and Designated Nurse and Named Doctor to be responsible for day-to-day leadership to the team, supervision, lead on development, implementation, and evaluation of service delivery.

- Ensure that policies and procedures are implemented and ensure statutory health assessments and health care plans meet quality standards in accordance with statutory guidance.

- Lead innovation, influence change, and monitor the Children in Care service across the NCL community, to ensure adherence to legislation, policy and key statutory and non-statutory guidance.

- Ensure the delivery of a high-quality, responsive service to meet the health needs of the Children in Care population.

- Provide a high level of operational expertise which aims to improve the health outcomes for Children in Care and care leavers.

**Benefits**

- Flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for employees.

- Commitment to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture.

**Person Specification**

- Registered Nurse/Health Visitor/School Nurse

- First Degree

- SCPHN Qualification

- Significant experience working in a relevant community specialist area

- Evidence of Continuing professional development with relevant further qualifications.

- Involvement in planning and delivery of training packages

- Staff/Line management

- Substantial clinical experience of the health needs of children/young people and the health needs of looked after children

- Evidence of expertise in child protection

- Experience in providing clinical supervision to CHILDREN IN CARE health professionals

## Skills

### Required
- Child Protection
- Clinical Supervision
- Community Specialist Area
- Continuing Professional Development
- Health Assessments
- Leadership
- Multi-Agency Working
- Operational Expertise
- Service Delivery
- Trauma-Informed Care

### Nice to have
- Master's level of expert practice
- Personal credibility and presence

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