Job summary
- Main area
- Looked After Children
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-NMR212-0525
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Heol Draw
- Town
- Pontypridd
- Salary
- £46,840 - £53,602 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Team Leader for Looked After Children
Band 7
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
An exciting secondment opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Team Leader for Looked After Children to join our established team in ensuring effective systems are in place within Cwm Taf Morgannwg to meet the holistic health needs of children looked after.
The successful candidate will join the organisation at a time of exciting transformation and change and will work closely with local authorities and other health and social care professionals in order to facilitate the completion of statutory health assessments and ensure good health outcomes for this vulnerable population.
The post holder must possess specialist professional knowledge to degree level, have a valid nursing registration, possess clear understanding and specialised knowledge relevant to looked after children and associated legislative processes. They will have experience of working within a multi-agency forum and demonstrate significant experience of undertaking holistic health assessments of children and young people.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
Support delivery of innovative, clinically excellent, evidence based health components of the local Looked After Children service.
Assist, support and advice staff within Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board to recognise their responsibilities in relation to Looked After Children and to support them to plan, deliver and evaluate appropriate interventions and co-ordination of health care.
Work collaboratively with partner agencies across health, social care and others to ensure all Looked After Children receive good quality health provision and are not disadvantaged in terms of their vulnerability due to their looked after status
Provide leadership, management and consultancy for the Looked After Children health service, ensuring local and national standards, guidelines and policies are maintained.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Be a Registered Nurse with current NMC registration, and have significant experience in relevant areas of practice
- Clear understanding and specialist knowledge of Looked After Children and adverse childhood experiences
Experience
Essential criteria
- Have experience of working directly in multi-agency child protection and Looked After Children
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Welsh language skills are not necessary
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicola Jones
- Job title
- Senior Nurse for Looked After Children
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656643630
- Additional information
Claire O'Keefe
Head of Safeguarding
01443 744858
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