Main area Nursing and Midwifery Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri) Job ref 350-CC6989329
Employer Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Norris Green Health Centre Town Liverpool Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 09/03/2025 23:59
Named Nurse Child in Care
Band 8a
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
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.
Main duties of the job
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.
Working for our organisation
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.
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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Community Specialist Practitioner Qualification
* First Level Nurse with current NMC registration
* Children's Nurse
* Relevant safeguarding module at level 6
Knowledge and experience
* Experience of effective multi-agency working including liaison with police and legal services
* Evidence of working across geographical and organisational boundaries
* Formulation and implementation of relevant policy and procedure
* Experience and evidence of strategy development and implementation
* Experience of leading audit / quality assurance
* Experience of effective report writing
* Effective multidisciplinary/multi agency working
* Experience of leading groups/managing teams
* In depth knowledge of relevant legislation and policy relating to looked after children
Values
* Accountability
* Engaging leadership style
Skills
* An understanding of looked after children issues across disciplines and agencies
* Clinical leadership and management skills
* Able to work under pressure within a highly emotive climate and to meet deadlines
* Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
Additional Information
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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