Named Nurse For Children in Care

The post holder will provide strategic and operational leadership within health and children social care partnership arenas for Children in Care in the London Borough of Newham.
To ensure all Children in Care and young people have access to good quality health assessments with all initial assessments being carried out by a paediatrician and follow - ups of children being coordinated by the Children in Care health team; including children placed out of borough and those placed within the secure estate.
To lead in implementing government guidance on promoting the physical, social, mental and emotional health of Children in Care and young people through targeted health interventions including health promotion initiatives.
To work closely with other Named and Designated professionals in supporting the Trust to meet its statutory responsibilities for Children in Care and young people.
To provide support and advise to colleagues in clinical assessments including quality assurance of nurse led assessments; establish, monitor and report on performance data and management process' in the Trust.
To undertake clinical assessments in line with the intercollegiate document and monitor delivery of service through robust analysis of data forecasting and monitoring capacity and demand, removing barriers by developing more effective ways of working and verbalising better ways of working across partnerships., + Contribute to the planning and strategic organisation of provider services for Children in Care
+ To take clinical, operational and strategic responsibility for developing, delivering and auditing high quality services to children and young people looked after by the London Borough of Newham.
+ To provide managerial supervision, including appraisal and support for the specialist nursing team
+ Work closely with other named, specialist and designated professionals locally, regionally and nationally.
+ Advise children's social care, local police and other statutory and voluntary agencies on health matters with regard to Children in Care.
+ Liaise closely with other specialist services such as CAMHS, sexual health, family nurse partnership and SEND services
+ To work across the health economy to monitor the health care plans of Children in Care, including those placed out of borough, this includes liaising with Designated Nurses and other looked after health teams or staff in other health settings and organisations.
+ To provide monthly and quarterly performance reports and an annual report to the Trust Board demonstrating successful service delivery and improved outcomes for Children in Care.
+ To represent the service on the Foster Panel and Corporate Parenting Board meetings.
+ Ensure data collected is robust and utilised to plan service delivery, Patient Care
+ To ensure that all initial and review health assessments are completed within timescale and are of high quality and a comprehensive health care plan is completed and shared with GPs, carers and the local authority.

+ Ensure timely escalation of delays in commencing assessments.
+ Support and advise colleagues in the clinical assessment and care of Children in Care and young people
+ Ensure all Children in Care are able to access universal services as well as targeted and specialist health services where necessary.
+ To ensure that mechanisms are in place to effectively enable the consultation, participation and involvement of children/young people in care and service users in the planning and delivery of services
+ Attend Corporate Parenting Board and provide relevant updates.

Clinical
+ To maintain a clinical caseload and assess health needs within a child centred holistic framework.
+ Undertake health assessments for Children in Care and provide follow up within agreed pathways as required.
+ To communicate with other boroughs as required ensuring effective assessment and implementation of health care plans for those children and young people placed out of borough.
+ To use RiO and Azeus in the case management and recording of Children in Care and to maintain an overview of the caseload.
+ To monitor trends, quality and appropriateness of referrals and identify gaps, duplications, and blockages to systems and take appropriate action.
+ Be able to apply lessons learnt from audit, case management reviews and serious case reviews to improve practice.
+ Be an active member of the Senior Nurses Leadership Team
+ Provide robust safeguarding framework and support as part of the SCYPS safeguarding working group
+ Represent SCYPS when appropriate as Named Nurse for Children in Care (CiC)
+ Work closely with Named Doctors for Safeguarding and CiC and nurse leads for safeguarding

Administration
+ [SS1] To complete written health assessment reports within expected timescales.
+ To complete statistical and other returns as requested.
+ To complete and comment on performance and KPI reports
+ Be able to participate in and chair multi-disciplinary meetings as required
+ To organise content of and chair team meetings
+ To organise and participate in the delivery of training
+ To update the annual report yearly and in a timely manner
+ To participate in the development of effective pathways and SOPs
+ To work as an integrated team with admin team to achieve service priorities and outcomes

Performance and Quality
+ To provide statistical data and reports as required in a timely matter.
+ To lead on risk management including maintaining the risk register.
+ To investigate incidents and complaints providing reports and action plans following these.
+ To lead on the development and implementation of local policies and procedures in relation to the health of Children in Care.
+ To identify and lead on relevant audits of effectiveness and quality of service provision for Children in Care on an organisation level, including multi - agency audits and audits against national guidelines.
+ To present the annual report at the corporate parenting board
+ To attend the Trust safeguarding committee to represent Children in Care
+ To ensure that all policies and SOPs are up to date
+ To encourage Quality Improvement work within the team and wider Trust
+ To be instrumental in improving and developing reporting and IT systems relevant to the service
+ To provide narrative, including plan to bring back to target, for missed KPIs and other performance data
+ Work collaboratively with ICB Designate Nurse

Financial and Physical Resources
+ To be an authorised signatory for local budget
+ To be responsible for ensuring costs remain within budget allocation both pay and non-pay.
+ To be responsible for the ordering of goods and clinical equipments required by the service.
+ To participate in financial viability planning and implementation

Knowledge and Skills
Knowledge, Training and Experience
+ To maintain registration and revalidation with the NMC at all times and to work within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
+ Able to interpret regional, national and local policy documents/reports and their implications for looked after children's health and service provision
+ Meet the organisation's requirements for mandatory training attendance to ensure best clinical practice.
+ Attend relevant local, regional, and national continuing professional development activities.
+ Maintain competence in accordance to Intercollegiate Document (2020) [SS2] Looked after children: Knowledge, skills and competences of healthcare staff.
+ Able to work with multiagency colleagues to support young people leaving care, providing support to access specialist advice on contraception and sexual health, promoting physical and mental health, enabling access to GP services and facilitating transfer of care leavers with complex needs, including those with disabilities seamlessly to adult services.
+ Understand relevant child-care legislation, information sharing, information governance, confidentiality and consent in relation to Children in Care
+ Understand the needs and legal position of young people, particularly those aged 16 years and over and the transition between children's and adult legal frameworks including respective service provision
+ Understand how the changes to the special educational needs and disability assessment and planning frameworks affect Children in Care.
+ Be able to identify unmet health needs/gaps in service provision and promote innovative service solutions.
+ Able to review, summarise and interpret information from a range of sources and write a chronology/summary.
+ Able to analyse and evaluate information and evidence to inform inter-agency decision making across the organisation.

Supervision
+ To receive clinical and managerial supervision on a regular basis.
+ To receive safeguarding supervision on a regular basis and communicate with named and designated professionals as appropriate.
+ To provide monthly clinical and management supervision to the specialist nurses
+ To provide quarterly safeguarding supervision to the specialist nurses
+ To provide tripartite monthly management supervision to the lead administrator, alongside the Head of Administraion.
+ To receive bi-monthly supervision from the Designated LAC Nurse in the ICB, + To provide advice and information to Service Managers and Commissioners on questions of planning, strategy and the audit of quality standards in relation to health services for Children in Care.
+ To ensure expert health advice about Children in Care is available to East London NHS Foundation Trust, London Borough of Newham, GPs, residential children's homes and foster carers.
+ To attend multi-agency meetings as required.

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT COMPETENCIES:
General
+ Promotes a team culture where continuous improvement and learning are the norm.
+ Actively listens to the views of service users / carers, and involves service users / carers in quality improvement work.
+ Actively seeks opportunities to improve quality of service delivery by suggesting ideas, testing changes and contributing to ongoing quality improvement work within the team.
+ Undertakes the appropriate level of training and development in the quality improvement method and tools.

Management and/or leadership
+ Leads a team in a way that supports the development of a culture of continuous improvement and learning.
+ Provide managerial supervision, including appraisal and support to the Children in Care specialist nurses, including recruitment and selection, performance management, sickness / absence management and annual leave recording and monitoring.
+ Facilitates regular time and space for team reflection
+ Promotes awareness and understanding of quality improvement, and shares learning and successes from quality improvement work.
+ Utilises the quality improvement approach to think systemically about complex problems, develop potential change ideas and test these in practice using the Trust's QI framework.
+ Maintain close working relationships with the ICB Designated Nurse and commissioners in order to ensure that extra contractual funding for Children in Care are highlighted and met.
+ Ensures clinical or restorative supervision is delivered and is adequate to meet the needs of team members.

Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other reasons to apply
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.

+ Able to communicate effectively with children and young people including those with complex needs e.g. language difficulties, learning and behavioural difficulties and where English is not their first language use appropriate resources including interpreters to do so.
+ Able to adapt and be sensitive and flexible to meet the particular needs of the child and in particular adolescents.
+ To communicate and receive highly complex, highly sensitive information, where a high level of interpersonal skills are required.
+ Able to confidently manage, provide or ensure supervision is provided from a health perspective for Children in Care where safeguarding issues arise within the care system

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations., Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.