Named Nurse For Children in Care | East London NHS Foundation Trust

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EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, Stratford, Greater London

Full time
Permanent
Onsite working

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Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 6c1507ea44c344d8b8aa077d77d524d8

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

Full Job Description

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
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.
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
[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
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
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
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.
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.
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 improvementwork within the team.
Undertakes the appropriate level of training and development in the quality improvement method and tools.
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.

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