Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working - various
- Job ref
- 824-BANK-LIT1402
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Oak Lane Clinic
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £23.52 pay + 12.07% Holiday pay
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 19/06/2025 12:00
Employer heading
Bank Specialist Nurse for Children in Care ONW
NHS AfC: Band 7
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 14 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon, Sutton, Kingston - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
At Central London Community Healthcare, we promote equality and foster an inclusive environment where our diverse workforce feels they belong and are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.
CLCH aims to create a culture where staff feel supported, valued and respected for what they do and where the values we seek to show to our patients are the same values we show to each other, in line with the NHS People Plan and Our NHS People Promise and our own strategic Equality values and objectives.
Job overview
JOB SUMMARY
To liaise closely with the Named Nurse for Looked after Children, to ensure structures, processes and policies are in place to plan, manage and monitor the delivery of effective health care to all children who are looked after.
To be responsible for a caseload of looked after children and young people, autonomously undertaking direct specialist clinical work including carrying out statutory health assessment reviews on Looked after Children.
To work in partnership with the Named nurse and Named Dr for LAC to implement National Guidance and Local Policy for Looked after Children
To work alongside colleagues to ensure Looked after Children receive timely, child and young person focused assessments and interventions in line with Statutory Guidance
To deliver training to foster carers and other health and social care professional
Main duties of the job
To maintain a clinical caseload and assess health needs with a child centred holistic framework in line with the ‘Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their families’. (2000)
Ensure effective implementation of healthcare plans for individual children
To work in partnership with the Named Doctor and Named nurse to undertake holistic health assessments for all children entering care
In partnership with the Named Doctor, Named nurse and GP’s, develop individual Health Care Plans to ensure that identified or ongoing health needs are being addressed
Liaise with all relevant health care professionals in order to implement the Health Care Plan
Responsible for undertaking the statutory review health assessments for all LAC in Barnet
Develop, implement and evaluate health care plans in partnership with LAC and their carer’s
Working for our organisation
Why join?
- Earn more per hour - bank rates are higher than agency and include holiday pay. We also cover your expenses and provide free uniforms
- See the best shifts first – bank staff get priority over all agency workers
- Book the shifts you want on your phone – build your own rota on our bank booking system
- Get 24x7 support from our friendly Staff Bank team – a local team dedicated to helping you
- Access NHS benefits – such as NHS pension contributions and discounts
- Access Trust benefits – get support with your career development and mental health
- Become part of an integrated team – feel more valued and supported in your work
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for a comprehensive list of role specific duties and responsibilities
Both verbal and written communication skills, and experience of team working will be essential to the role. Strong interpersonal skills will also be essential. You must be an NMC registered, UK based nurse to apply for this role, as it is 'zero-hours' it does not attract visa sponsorship. You must also have at least 6 months acute experience.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- RN or RN (child)
- Health Visiting / School Nursing professional qualification, with entry onto the 3rd part of the NMC Register
- Evidence of ongoing professional development in Safeguarding Issues
- Minimum of two years post registration experience working in the acute sector or in the community
Desirable criteria
- Mental health qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable post qualification experience of working with children & young people in a range of settings
- Experience of working with highly vulnerable children & young people
- Carrying out assessments of a CYP’s development and identifying where further investigation, assessment or escalation may be required
- Formulating care planning & intervention, directing other professionals to support achievement of the CYP’s outcomes Working in partnership with vulnerable children & young people Multi-agency liaison & collaboration, with respect to complex children’s cases
- Working with client groups from diverse cultural backgrounds. Ability to empathise with vulnerable children, young people and their carers and families
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to assess, plan implement and evaluate programmes of quality care for highly complex & vulnerable children & young people
- Awareness of national and local policies and Statutory Guidance with respect to LAC
- An understanding of the public health context of supporting LAC Ability to work with CYP from diverse cultures, Asylum Seekers & those who are ‘Hard to Reach’Has participated in audit and can advise how this has transferred into practice
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including with other departments/agencies
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shanelle Green
- Job title
- Bank Recruitment business partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02033978322
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