Job overview

Do you have a passion for promoting and improving the health for children and young people aged 5 to 18 in care? An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Derbyshire Children in Care (CiC) Nursing Team working full time across our South Derbyshire caseload. We are passionate about ensuring children in care receive high quality health care plans within statutory time frames that support and improve their health outcomes. We are looking for a motivated and passionate Specialist Nurse to join our well-established, supportive and friendly team providing high quality statutory health assessments for CiC living in Derbyshire.  Our base is in Clay Cross with nurses managing geographical caseloads across the county (this post is for the South Derbyshire caseload). We offer a variety of appointment types, mobile working and access satellite clinics.

The role covers all aspects of Children in Care including Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children, Care Experienced Young People and children with complex health needs residing in residential settings. You will require experience of Safeguarding to actively participate in a Duty Day rota, which involves attending strategy meetings for children in care living in Derbyshire. The ability to maintain excellent record keeping and complete detailed reports and health care plans is a vital element of the role, alongside managing a caseload and working safely alone in the community. The role can be clinic based, office based and visiting children in foster and residential placements. We offer a full induction and competency package to support this role, alongside Safeguarding and Clinical Supervision

Main duties of the job

Complete Statutory Review Health Assessments within timescales.

Formulate robust, high quality Health Care Plans

Complete comprehensive child focussed reports capturing the voice of the child. 

Work collaboratively with other agencies including Social Care, Policy, Safeguarding, Education and other health organisations. 

Provide information and signposting to Multi-Disciplinary Team supporting Children in Care

Participate in Duty Days calculated pro rata. 

Working for our organisation

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a well performing Foundation Trust serving a population of around 441,000 across the Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, North Amber Valley, High Peak and North East Derbyshire districts with a workforce of around 5,000 staff. 

We are committed to working with our partners in Health and Social Care to deliver long term financial sustainability and resilience in our performance to ensure we provide high quality services and excellent patient care. 

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

COVID19 Vaccination

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

 UK Points-based immigration system

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.  Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route.  Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form.  Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.  Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be  eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.

Communications 

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.

This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.

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