This is an exciting opportunity to be the Named Nurse for the Children in Care team in Liverpool. This role will be the strategic and professional lead within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust across the looked after children service in Liverpool, working in collaboration with other named professionals to provide a high quality, evidence based service ensuring quality care to vulnerable children.
This includes being a source of expertise for The Trust and promoting excellent standards of professional practice. The scope of the post includes development of effective inter-disciplinary and inter-agency working, supporting changes across looked after children service delivery and clinical practice required by relevant national and local policy. It also involves ensuring that
appropriate and comprehensive assessments involving children and their families are undertaken and that supervision and support to staff undertaking such assessments is provided.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
To develop and implement strategies, plans, policies and procedures relevant to looked after children services within The Trust which take account of national guidance and legislation.
To ensure that appropriate and robust quality assurance processes are in place in relation to The Trust performance to enable discharge of statutory duties.
To effectively manage statistical information and provide advice and support to both line manager and team managers within health and children’s social care.
Manage and supervise work of the team members and delegate work as appropriate.
To ensure staff work within the national and local policies and guidance.
To support the commissioning process for the provision of additional services for the health and well-being of looked after children.
To participate in the recruitment and appraisal of staff.
To provide written reports for The Trust, Corporate Parenting Board across the footprint of The Trust as and when required.
Gather, analyse and interpret complex information relating to looked after children in order to make timely and effective decisions relating to health provision, developing and modifying models of information management where necessary.
Maintain professional registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council and adhere to the statutory Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Conduct and all Trust policies, procedures, protocols and guidance
To work autonomously, and on own initiative to manage workload and the future developments of the service.
This advert closes on Sunday 9 Mar 2025