Deputy Designated Nurse Looked After Children and Care Leavers

We are seeking applications from a NMC Registered Nurse to join NHS Norfolk and Waveney ICB, Children, Young People (CYP), Maternity and Safeguarding Team as Deputy Designated Nurse for Looked After Children and Care Leavers, The successful candidate will work effectively across partnerships, have excellent communication skills and professional credibility. The post holder will provide strategic safeguarding clinical leadership across the health economy in relation to LAC and care leavers, including development and delivery of training; advice and support to clinicians on complex cases; lead and support professional disagreements; provide subject matter expertise on Safeguarding Practice Reviews, domestic homicides and LADOs and support the development of policy and strategy. You will also be expected to support the Senior Designated Nurse for LAC and Care Leavers to represent the ICB and health partners at both a regional and national level.
Outline of Role
+ The post holder will support the Designated Doctor and Senior Designated Nurse in leading the LAC and Care Leavers health agenda, and to provide strategic professional leadership and clinical expertise on all aspects of the health service contribution to safeguarding children across Norfolk and Waveney.
+ The post holder will deputise for the Senior Designated Nurse for LAC and Care Leavers as required, expanding on knowledge, skills and experience within personal professional development.
+ The post is responsible for providing professional expertise to all partners concerned with the health of LAC.

Working for our organisation
Health and care services in Norfolk and Waveney are working closely together to further improve services and provide more joined-up care for local people. In Norfolk and Waveney, we have already achieved a lot by working in partnership to improve health and care outcomes. These changes have been made possible by different organisations - NHS hospitals, GPs, mental health and community health services, local councils, care homes and social workers, voluntary and community organisations and others - joining forces to agree and plan for local people's needs.
Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System (ICS) includes a statutory Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), and an Integrated Care Board (ICB) called NHS Norfolk and Waveney. This partnership and organisation dedicated to making sure that organisations work together for the benefit of our residents, staff and communities is an important step change, helping to create positive differences to local people and joining up health and social care. This is the culmination of many years of effort to build partnership working across the NHS, local authorities, the third sector and patient groups., The post holder will support the Designated Doctor and Senior Designated Nurse in leading the Looked After Children and Care Leavers health agenda, and to provide strategic professional leadership and clinical expertise on all aspects of the health service contribution to safeguarding children across Norfolk and Waveney.
The post holder will deputise for the Senior Designated Nurse for Looked After Children and Care Leavers as required, expanding on knowledge, skills and experience within personal professional development.
The post is responsible for providing professional expertise to all partners concerned with the health of Looked After Children,
The post holder will define current processes, facilitate discussions, and advise colleagues as to how best practice might be adopted, document those processes as they are agreed and oversee their delivery.
This job description and person specification are only an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.
The job description and person specification be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the service and the organisation., The Deputy Designated Nurse for Looked After Children and Care Leavers will:
+ Work as part of the Designated Looked After Children Team to develop and improve the health of Looked After Children across Norfolk and Waveney ICB area.
+ Work with governance arrangements across all commissioning areas and with the Corporate Parenting Boards.
+ Undertake delegated individual pieces of work related to national and regional guidance and recommendations on Looked After Children and Care Leavers, and work with the Senior Designated Nurse and Doctor to ensure that these are disseminated across Commissioning teams, Providers, and other appropriate organisations.
+ Work to develop services to care leavers in line with the Local Offer to care leavers (Norfolk and Suffolk Local Authorities), and the Children and Social Work Act 2017.
+ Work with the Senior Designated Nurse and Designated Doctor for Looked After Children on the development of improved partnership working arrangements across all commissioning areas and in alignment with partner agencies.
+ Work with the Senior Designated Nurse and Designated Doctor to ensure that national and regional guidance and recommendations on Looked After Children and Care Leavers are disseminated across lead commissioners and providers and implemented through effective commissioning.
+ Work with the Senior Designated Nurse and Designated Doctor to provide assurance that current and future providers of health services are compliant in relation to national and local standards of best practice.
+ Work with the Senior Designated Nurse and Designated Doctor, to develop an integrated Looked After Children dashboard for performance, in collaboration with Norfolk and Suffolk Local Authorities, Mental Health services and other health providers.
+ Work with the Senior Designated Nurse and Designated Doctor to identify and take appropriate action on key risks and issues across commissioned services that may affect Looked After Children and Care Leavers.
+ Work with clinical networks and health professionals to ensure that best practice is identified and implemented through the development of evidence-based clinical guidance.
+ Provide immediate clinical advice and support to all independent contractors and staff within provider organisations, ICB and commissioning teams as and when required in the area of Looked After Children and Care Leavers.
+ Will work closely with all partner agencies and organisations across Norfolk and Waveney to advocate for the health needs of Looked After Children and Care Leavers, including participation in multi-disciplinary discussions and meetings.
+ To contribute to writing audit standards and undertake regular audit of clinical work with Looked After Children, and to establish practice change through action planning where appropriate.
+ To develop methodology to ensure that the 'child's voice' is actively sought in relation to health care for Looked After Children and Care Leavers.
+ Will be required to have effective personal working relationships with members of Provider Looked After Children health teams, and to actively support service development.
+ Understand and support the interdependence of services to Looked After Children and Care Leavers across the sector.
+ Will have the ability to communicate issues in a written format including reports.
+ Will be expected to write and contribute to individual management reports for Serious Case Reviews and other case reviews.
+ Will devise and deliver training programmes to groups, on Looked After Children and Care Leavers, either as an individual or alongside colleagues.
In addition, the Post holder will:
+ Complete travel claims and study leave forms.
+ Log details of cases of clinical advice given.
+ input and analyse information from: Excel spreadsheets / Word documents.

Hybrid Working
The ICB operates a flexible approach to working. It is expected the majority of our staff will work from a combination of home and office (where possible). For staff designated in a hybrid role they should have a safe and suitable place to work with Broadband access and space for a desk, chair and monitors. At interview a discussion will take place between the recruiting manager and the candidate to ensure they are clear on what is expected.

This is an exciting role for a skilled professional with sound clinical knowledge and experience of safeguarding and working with looked after children, and with further post-registration training and education in the speciality. This post will support the Designated Nurse for Looked After Children and work as part of the ICB Safeguarding Team in Norfolk & Waveney.

NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board (ICB) plans and buys healthcare services for our local population. We are accountable for the performance and finances of the NHS across Norfolk and Waveney - a total budget of £2 billion a year. Known as NHS Norfolk and Waveney, the organisation works with local people, health and care professionals, and partner organisations to improve the health and wellbeing of our population.
The organisation is part of the Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System. A system dedicated to working with partners in local government, the voluntary sector and others and helping the NHS to support broader social and economic development and to tackle inequalities in health outcomes.
We believe strongly in creating a workplace built on teamwork, whilst allowing individuals to grow and develop in their own roles. Our main offices are based at 8th Floor of Norfolk County Hall, Martineau Lane, Norwich, NR1 2UE however we have a local office for the East of the region based in Beccles and another in the West of the region based in King's Lynn, therefore travel across the Norfolk and Waveney footprint as well as out of county is required according to where our stakeholders are situated.
Our three ICS goals are:
1. To make sure that people can live as healthy a life as possible.
2. To make sure that you only have to tell your story once.
3. To make Norfolk and Waveney the best place to work in health and care.
If you are someone who enjoys making a difference and would like to help people in Norfolk and Waveney live longer, healthier and happier lives then we would love to hear from you.