Specialist Nurse For Children in care and Care leavers, Enfield

We are seeking to appoint a dynamic and enthusiastic candidate to the role of Specialist Nurse For Children in care and Care leavers, within the Enfield Community Services remit under the management of the Babies, Children's, & Young People Division.

This role is offered at 30x hours per week, covering 4x days, and the working pattern for this role will be agreed at interview. The successful candidate will work with a team of highly specialist nursing, medical, and AHP staffing across our Enfield Community Services to provide a high-level service to all Children in care and Care leavers.

Please note;

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.

To work together with the Designated Nurse, Named Nurse and Doctor for Looked After Children in meeting the health needs of looked after children as recommended in the Department of Health guidance ‘Promoting the Health needs of Looked After Children’ 2022.

The post holder will provide a direct clinical service for Enfield’s Looked After Children, across the age range (0-18 years) and will be required to travel out of Borough.

The service will ensure all children have access to a good quality health assessment with all initial assessments being carried out by a Paediatrician and follow-ups of children being co-ordinated by the Looked After Children Nursing team, including Enfield children placed out of borough.

Key duties of the role include, but are not limited to:

• Leading in implementing Government guidance on promoting physical, mental and emotional health of looked after children and young people through targeted health interventions including health promotion initiatives.
• Ensuring Operational policies and local procedures reflect best practice.
• Working with the Named Nurse develop policies and protocols for specific issues relating to the health of children and young people in care

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Patricia McAllen Reid Job title: Named Nurse for Children in Care and care Leavers Email address: patriciamcallenreid@nhs.net Telephone number: 07483 689179

Mary Murrill 07904 104668 (Wed and Thurs only)