Main area: Nursing and Midwifery
Grade Band: 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri)
Job ref: 350-CC6989329
Site: Norris Green Health Centre
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 09/03/2025 23:59
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. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. 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
1. 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.
2. To ensure that appropriate and robust quality assurance processes are in place in relation to The Trust performance to enable discharge of statutory duties.
3. To effectively manage statistical information and provide advice and support to both line manager and team managers within health and children’s social care.
4. Manage and supervise work of the team members and delegate work as appropriate.
5. To ensure staff work within the national and local policies and guidance.
6. To support the commissioning process for the provision of additional services for the health and well-being of looked after children.
7. To participate in the recruitment and appraisal of staff.
8. To provide written reports for The Trust, Corporate Parenting Board across the footprint of The Trust as and when required.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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
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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.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
FULFIL YOUR POTENTIAL AND SPREAD YOUR WINGS WITH MERSEY CARE
At Mersey Care, our commitment to ‘perfect care’ lies at the heart of everything we do, a person-centred care that starts with you. It’s a pledge to create an environment and staff support that will enable you to do the best job you can possibly do, to be the best you can possibly be.
You’ll be joining one of the most innovative and progressive NHS trusts in the country. One that offers specialist inpatient and community services to support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. We are the founding member of the Zero Suicide Alliance, and one of only three Trusts in the country which delivers high secure mental health care.
You’ll be made to feel at home, joining an 11,000 strong Mersey Care family comprising doctors and nurses, as well as countless other roles from dieticians to dentists, from data analysts to physiotherapists. You'll find a full list of our roles in our A-Z list.
You’ll have a home in the North West of England where your work/life balance is respected and working from sites easily commutable from Liverpool, Manchester, North Wales and Cheshire with many roles operating a hybrid working system.
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