Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Children in Care (CiC) team based at Sandwell Health Campus within the Safeguarding Children’s Team and co-located Sandwell Children's Trust, Wellman Building, an innovative development which has proven positive for partnership working and information sharing with  CiC social workers.

This is a diverse role which entails working closely with children, young people, their carers and multiagency partners offering clinical advice, delivering health education and completing statutory Review Health Assessments (RHA). The role incorporates undertaking RHA’s for Sandwell’s CiC population who live within a 50 mile radius of Sandwell and are completed within the home, school or clinic setting.    

You will also be expected to work alongside other health professionals, and partner agencies to promote and drive forward the national and local agenda for the health of looked after children. The post holder will work jointly with Named and Designated professionals to maintain a co-ordinated approach to the improvement of outcomes for Sandwell’s children in care and young people. Innovative working and gaining the views of children and young people on the services they are offered are essential to the role.

Main duties of the job

If you are a registered nurse with SCPHN/community paediatric experience we would like to hear from you. Experience of working with children and young people with complex health and social needs, including emotional health difficulties and learning difficulties, would be advantageous.  However, a passion for working with, and improving the services for, children in care and young people is a necessity for the successful candidate.

Key Duties:

To   communicate   effectively   with   children,   young   people,   team members and staff from other agencies (for example teenage pregnancy, youth offending team and substance misuse services).

 To communicate and negotiate with other health care professionals to undertake Looked After Health Assessments for young people placed out of borough (up to 50 mile radius).

To  communicate  effectively  with  Health  Visitors  and  School  Health Nurses  to  ensure  the  particular  health  needs  of  vulnerable  young people are met.

To support foster carers to promote the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and to encourage them to be active partners in supporting children and young people.

Working for our organisation

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country – one of the country’s most culturally diverse areas. It’s a friendly and welcoming place – a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.  

We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.   

Our values – Ambition, Respect and Compassion – are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.    

Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to “Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population.” It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It’s what makes us unique.   

We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose.  When we say we’re ‘with you all the way’ we want you to know that we mean it. Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.   

Multi-site working 

The four partner Trusts of the Black Country Provider Collaborative (Dudley Group NHS FT, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust) are actively working in partnership to deliver a collective vision focused on providing "better, faster and safer care to the population of the Black Country and beyond". 

To support this vision, we are (where appropriate and safe to do so) actively looking at new models of care which:

Against this context, although this post is hosted by Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, there may be an expectation to work flexibly across the four partner Trusts to better meet patient and service needs.