The Designated Nurse for Children In Care provides Children in Care expertise and leadership throughout health and multiagency partnerships across the Liverpool geographical location and wider ICB. The role is pivotal to complex case management, improved partnership working, strategic planning, quality assurance and performance monitoring.
The role of the Designated Nurse Children In Care is to continually ensure improvement in Children in Care arrangements across the health economy in partnership with a range of agencies and services across Cheshire and Merseyside. This role encompasses enabling Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board to ensure they comply with the statutory guidance for looked after children.
The post holder will be required to:
· Communicate and provide highly complex looked after children information across the Health economy to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
· Present highly complex information about projects, initiatives and services to a wide range of stakeholders in a formal setting such as the Local Safeguarding Children Partnership and Corporate Parenting Board.
· Commit to working and engaging constructively with NHS Commissioned providers, health services and other key stakeholders on a range of potentially contentious issues.
· Nurture key relationships and maintain networks both within the NHS and other networks such as the Safeguarding Children Partnerships and Corporate Parenting Committees internally and externally, including national networks.
· Lead and coordinate the looked after children response to external and internal inspections such as: Ofsted, CQC, Peer reviews etc.
. Support collaborative working across health services, underpinned by appropriate pathways and policies to safeguard children.
· Assist with media management, especially in cases generating media interest and where necessary liaise with media management of other agencies and partnerships to ensure a consistent media approach.
Are you passionate about the health of children in care? if so, this might just be the job for you. An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the safeguarding team at Liverpool Place, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside as the Designated Nurse for Children in Care. We are an established team of professionals looking to address the safeguarding needs of population of Liverpool. We are seeking a full time Designated Nurse for Children in Care.
Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System (ICS) is a highly complex organisation serving a population of over 2.5 million people across 9 Places, 17 NHS Provider organisations, 51 PCNs plus North West Ambulance service as well as third sector and voluntary organisations.
The postholder will be based in the geographical location of Liverpool. You will work closely with the Designated Nurses for Children in Care and Safeguarding Children across NHS Cheshire and Merseyside as part of a wider enthusiastic and dedicated safeguarding team.
The population of Cheshire and Merseyside is diverse and growing and we are keen to see that diversity recognised within our own workforce. As an employer we seek to open opportunities for our staff to gain new skills, gain knowledge and develop careers in heath and care.
• Provide advice to ensure that the range of services commissioned by the Integrated Care Board take account of the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and looked after children.
• Work closely with senior leadership teams within the Integrated Care Board to provide assurance to the Integrated Care Board that NHS commissioned, and other health services are discharging their looked after children responsibilities effectively.
• Work closely with the other Designated nurses and Named professionals in supporting all activities necessary to ensure that Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board and health service providers within and across the health economy meet their responsibilities in safeguarding children and looked after children and have the capacity to improve.
• Support health services, to develop robust systems and processes to safeguard children and looked after children effectively
• Be a member of the Corporate Parenting Committees Panels providing professional advice on health issues
• Represent at Safeguarding Children Partnerships and Corporate Parenting Committees subgroups, chairing groups and participate in statutory reviews.
• To advise partner agencies regarding health issues, including policy as well as individual case difficulties
• Provide a model of supervision for Named Professionals.
• Liaise with local education providers to ensure that there is an appropriate children in care content within pre-registration/ undergraduate/ postgraduate training programmes and strengthen links.
• Play an active part in the planning of multi-agency training through Safeguarding Children Partnerships and Corporate Parenting Committees and other multi agency strategic boards and partnership.
• Will be responsible with the other designated nurses for ensuring that the health components of statutory procedures across the local authorities are reviewed and updated at appropriate intervals.
• Provide advice on the monitoring of the looked after children aspects of Integrated Care Board commissioned contracts.
This advert closes on Monday 16 Dec 2024