Lead Nurse Looked After Children (LAC)

We have a unique and exciting opportunity for an experienced and inspiring nurse leader to join our corporate safeguarding team and lead our Looked After Children service. You will have overall responsibility and accountability for the management of nursing services within Looked After Children Services, ensuring effective and efficient use of resources and able to demonstrate service improvement and innovation.
The Corporate Safeguarding Team is a busy service, but we provide a friendly and supportive environment in which to work.
The post holder will be self motivated and experienced in assessing the needs of children and young people and will support all activities to ensure the organisation meets its statutory responsibilities with regard to Children Looked After.
You will act actively lead the strategic and operational development and delivery of the service to meet both the present and future provision in line with the Health Board and National Objectives.
The post holder will be autonomous in seeking assurances from and holding to account services and partners regarding their responsibilities as Corporate Parents.
interviews to be held on 15/1/2025, You will act as a lead specialist in your field with detailed knowledge and understanding of current issues and legislation relating to Looked After Children, Care Leavers and vulnerable children placed away from home, with freedom to take action, based on own interpretation of board clinical/professional policies, advising the organisation on how these should be interpreted., The Health Board is committed to supporting its staff to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing patient and service user experiences. In our commitment to increase the number of staff who are able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post. If you do not meet the Welsh Language requirements specified, the Health Board offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal desirable requirements during the course of your employment with us.
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You will use your experience of working as a health visitor or school health nurse and experience of working with children, young people and families, with a focus on child development, attachment, mental health,
sexual health, Public Health, and children with disabilities.
You will have experience of planning and delivering individual specialist health promotion/intervention programmes and provide specialist health advice to multi agency care assessment and operational planning of services for Looked After Children (LAC) and Care Leavers working closely with Local Authority Social Services Departments.
The post holder will have the ability to function effectively autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary/ agency team and ability to prioritise and manage time and caseload effectively.
You will be able to manage change and service development and able to positively promote the agenda for Looked After Children.
Being able to respond flexibly to the demands of working in a complex and diverse environment is an essential requirement of the role.

Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 12,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services to almost 400,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:
Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest.
Five community hospitals: Amman Valley Hospital and Llandovery Hospital in Carmarthenshire, Tregaron Hospital in Ceredigion and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire.
Two integrated care centres (Aberaeron and Cardigan, Ceredigion).
Community facilities, including:
48 General Practices (GP surgeries), 49 Dental Practices, 98 Community Pharmacies (chemists), 44 General Ophthalmic Practices (including eye health and low vision services), 38 sites providing mental health and learning disability services, care within your own homes.
Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales., Hywel Dda University Health Board operates a bilingual policy. All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.

Our Hywel Dda values reflect who we are and how we behave. We continuously work together to be the best we can be as we strive to develop and deliver excellent services, putting people at the heart of everything we do. Throughout our recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you would demonstrate these values in the way that you work with us.
If you are registered Health Care professional considering relocating to the Hywel Dda area in West Wales please don't hesitate to contact our recruitment campaigns team directly via [email protected]
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The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2024/2025 and will be implemented in November 2024 backdated to 1st April 2024 where applicable.
Hywel Dda University Health Board reserve the right to close vacancies after 24 hours if a large number of suitable applications are received. We encourage early applications to ensure consideration for a post.