Job summary
- Main area
- Community
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week (working Monday Tuesday)
- Job ref
- 196-NM13086
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Community
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 p.a inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 13/08/2025
Employer heading

Specialist Nurse for Looked After Children
Band 7
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a full time post in the Looked after Children's 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.
Closing: Midnight Thursday July 31st 2025
Interview: Tuesday August 12th 2025
Main duties of the job
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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See attached JD and person specification for additional details.
- Job Summary- To provide 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 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).
- Key Relationships - Trust Safeguarding Team, Children’s Social Care, Foster Carers, GP’s, Police, Specialist Children’s Services, Health Visitors, School Nurses, Child Health Administration Teams, Designated Doctor for Looked after Children, Paediatricians, Residential Units, Family Nurse Partnership Team, Sexual Health Services and CAMHS services.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Education
Essential criteria
- Registered Children’s Nurse or RN with significant paediatric experience
- Education to degree level.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Specialist Community Practitioner (HV/ SN)
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience working with children and families in a community nursing setting
- Working with school aged children / young people
- Leading on initiatives within the community setting with children and young people
- Working with multi-disciplinary teams
- Working with families with complex needs
- Relevant experience of working with Children Looked After
Desirable criteria
- Clinical Supervisor in Child Protection
Skills/Knowledge/ Ability
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of developments, guidelines and legislation relating to Looked After Children and its implication for practice
- Awareness of recent research and developments relating to Looked After Children and Child Protection
- Ability to plan, review and prioritise work
- Teaching and training skills
- Demonstrate effective leadership and good interpersonal skills
- Be skilled in professional decision making
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
- Sarah O'Connor
- Job title
- Named Nurse for Children Looked After
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07503720569
- Additional information
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