Job description

Job responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Health Visitor or Senior Childrens and Young Peoples Nurse, effectively manage a defined caseload as allocated nurse ensuring early intervention and reducing health inequalities. Delivering care programmes/packages that promote a child or young person's health, safety and development and that support a child or young person's individual health needs that are outside of the responsibility of specialist health care services. This will include delivery of certain aspects of the Healthy Child Programme such as Antenatal groups and health promotion and core contacts but only where training and competencies are completed.

Work with the childrens health service developing and maintaining appropriate relationships with individuals, families, service users, stakeholders, and support an integrated provision of services to children, young people, and their families as part of the Council's Early Help approach

Where relevant, liaise with other members of the 0-19 (25, SEND) children's services workforce e.g., early help, social care and outside agencies to identify/agree how the needs of the child or young person are best met and when/where additional support is required.

Under the supervision of the Health Visitor or Senior Childrens and Young Peoples Nurse, deliver specific health interventions/care programmes based on individual health needs assessments to children and young people on a child protection plan, child in need, TAC and ESCO relevant to the child's individual needs and act in accordance with safeguarding policy and procedures. Attending child protection conferences, core groups, child in need meetings as allocated, with support and guidance from the Health Visitor or Senior Childrens and Young Peoples Nurse.

Utilise specialist clinical skills using evidence-based practice to identify any risks and needs in protecting children and adhere to agreed safeguarding policies and procedures of Childrens Services Directorate and Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Partnership / Lincolnshire Domestic Abuse Partnership .

Under the supervision of the Health Visitor or Senior Childrens and Young Peoples Nurse act as lead professional where relevant and the child or young person is in receipt of a children and young people's health intervention/care programme.

Provide mentorship and community experience for pre-registration students. The role will also provide 1-1 support, guidance and supervision for Family Health Workers where required. This will also include the provision of appraisals for Family Health Workers.

Support managers within Children's Services in the delivery of operational objectives, plans and targets and to review and monitor these to improve team / directorate policy by operating effectively as a member of the Children's Services Directorate.

Participate in the development of quality intervention and excellent standards through quality audits.

Act as a role model to others helping them to manage uncertainty and to respond positively and creatively to change.

Work flexibly as required across the core hours of the service 8-8pm including weekends

The post holder will maintain their own expert level of clinical competence and maintain a professional profile and Nursing and Midwifery Council revalidation requirements. The post holder will receive clinical supervision and safeguarding supervision to support their own practice.

As an employee, create a positive image of the County Council to support an integrated provision of services to children, young people and their families as part of the Council's Early Help approach and deliver excellent customer service, incorporating the Councils equality and diversity objectives and supporting the council to achieve best practice in all it delivers.

Maintain and record accurate contemporaneous documentation regarding interactions between service users, colleagues and other agencies in the appropriate legal records and formats.

Always utilise and apply appropriate communication skills with service users. Where English is not the first language or understanding is limited or required in different mode to seek advice regarding methods of communication to support the individual e.g. translator services or resources for the visually or hearing impaired.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

• Ability to organise workload efficiently and effectively.
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in changing environments
• Committed to providing high standards of care
• Maintain personal and professional development
• Committed to working collaboratively and in partnership with early help and social care colleagues to help improve outcomes for children and young people.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Childrens Nurse (or other registered nursing domain with childrens experience).
• Current registration with NMC

Experience

Essential

• Post registration experience in Childrens Health / pediatrics.
• Experience and knowledge of current safeguarding children policy and process.
• Knowledge of health issues affecting infants, children and young people.
• Knowledge of clinical governance including CQC compliance, audit and
• embedding lessons learned.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website .

Employer details

Employer name

Lincolnshire County Council

Address

Lincolnshire County Council

Macaulay Drive

Lincoln

LN2 4EL