Specialist Nurse for Looked After Children

This is an exciting opportunity for a full time post in the Looked after Childrens' Nursing Team, predominantly based in Southwark but with responsibilities covering Lambeth too.

The Looked after children's health team promotes and monitors the health and wellbeing of looked-after children and young people, aged 0-18, who've been placed in care by Children's Social Care services, London Borough of Southwark and Lambeth.

The role includes being part of a nursing service to assist the Trust in fulfilling its responsibilities towards looked after children. To work effectively across health, social care, education and the voluntary sector to achieve the best health outcomes for children and young people looked after by Southwark and Lambeth.

The service is led by the Named Doctor and Nurse for Looked after Children. The team is responsible for co-ordinating and arranging statutory health assessments for children and young people placed in and out of borough to ensure they have the best possible outcomes. The team work in conjunction with other agencies to ensure that the health needs of those most vulnerable are appropriately being identified and addressed.

As part of Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust, Evelina London is there for children, young people and women from London to South East England and provides specialist care for families around the UK and across the world., We are seeking to recruit a dynamic and innovative nurse to join our Looked after Children's Clinical Nurse Specialist team.

You will provide a nursing service to assist the Trust in fulfilling its responsibilities towards looked after children.

You will be able to work effectively across health, social care, education and the voluntary sector to achieve the best health outcomes for children and young people looked after by Southwark and Lambeth.

The clinical priority is to work with children and young people 0-18 years carrying out statutory health assessments and providing advice and support to meet the health needs of looked after children recommended in the Department of Health statutory guidance 'Promoting the Health of Looked After Children' (DH 2015).

If you feel you have the skills, enthusiasm and ambition to be part of this fantastic team, we would love to hear from you.

Children's community services

We provide a comprehensive range of services for the 121,000 children and young people that live in Lambeth and Southwark. This includes universal services - health visiting, family nurse partnership, school nursing, nutrition and dietetics, and a newborn hearing screening programme. Our specialist services cover community paediatrics, speech and language therapy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, complex needs nursing, sickle cell and audiology. As well as part of statutory services including looked after children, child protection, safeguarding, and adoption and fostering.

We have two main health centres, Mary Sheridan Centre in Lambeth and Sunshine House in Southwark but we have many more across Lambeth and Southwark. We also provide services in schools, community buildings, in families' homes, and occasionally in hospital. Through group sessions and individual appointments, face-to-face and virtual, we hold over 176,000 appointments every year.

We strive to recruit and retain staff who are motivated to develop and learn with us as we continually strive to ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe, and focused on women, children and their families.