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Job summary

Main area
Safeguarding Children
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 30 hours per week
Job ref
844-7392653
Employer
Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Salinae Health Centre
Town
Middlewich Cheshire East
Salary
£38,682 - £46,580 per annum pro rota
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
29/10/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust logo

Cared for children Nurse

Band 6

Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust's common purpose:

We will support you and your community to live well.

Our values:

Compassion
Supportive and caring, listening to others.

Open
Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.

Trust
Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.

Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust provides high quality community health and care services which are responsive to the needs of our local population. Services are delivered by our dedicated and innovative multi disciplinary professionals and supported by equally committed staff behind the scenes. We strive to continue developing and improving our services by working with and listening to our populations, partners, commissioners and staff.

WCHC offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based services across Cheshire and Merseyside.

 

Job overview

Are you ready for a new challenge?
We are offering an exciting opportunity for a motivated, ambitious and experienced nurse to take on the role of a Looked After Children’s Nurse,
supporting our Cared for Children in Cheshire East.
This is a varied and unique role for a practitioner with clinical expertise relating to safeguarding children and young people.





Main duties of the job

To support the Specialist Nurses Looked after Children to provide a safe and effective health service to children and young people
looked after by local authorities and placed within the local authority boundary of Cheshire East.
• To support the Named Nurse in developing the service and adopting best practice methods of service delivery to ensure that national
and local guidelines and requirements are met.
• Provide specialist advice, support and training on Safeguarding Children to all WCT staff; taking a leading role in matters relating to the
health and wellbeing of looked after children.
• Work as part of the Integrated multi-agency team, ensuring that the Safeguarding Strategy is implemented across the borough and
ensure that all practitioners can access advice and support about health needs of children and young people.
• Work as part of the Multi agency Team to ensure that the views of children and young people, and healthcare workers in linked services
can influence the development of Cared for Children clinical practice within East Cheshire
• To work collaboratively with the multi-agency team, contributing to information sharing from across the local health economy including
primary and secondary care to inform risk assessments, care planning and decision making

Working for our organisation

Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by CQC (Dec 2023) with some outstanding areas.

As an aspiring outstanding Trust we have numerous policies and procedures in place which provide standard organisational ways of working, in line with organisational objectives, relevant legislation and requirements. Policies allow for continuity and consistency within the Trust. Employees must abide by and adhere to all Wirral Community NHS Trust’s policies, at all times.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details about this exciting role

 

Person specification

Skills and attributes

Essential criteria
  • Excellent inter-personal skills including negotiation, influencing and presentation skills
  • Excellent leadership skills
  • Ability to make sound judgements regarding the welfare of children, demonstrating confidence in professional view and analysis.
  • Ability to plan interagency interventions for children and families.
  • Ability to influence, motivate and negotiate with others
  • Ability to produce clear and concise written reports as required.
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills
  • Ability to prioritise workload/work within and meet deadlines
  • Self-management and motivation skills
  • Confidence to challenge traditional practice and persistence to address difficult issues
  • IT literate

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Minimum of 3 years post registration experience as Health Visitor, School Nurse or RSCN, with significant experience of Safeguarding Children processes
  • Sound working knowledge of Community Health Care provision
  • Awareness of the legislative framework underpinning children’s health provision, safeguarding children and looked after children
  • Ability to demonstrate appropriate assessment of needs of children and interventions required to safeguard children
  • Participation in developments in practice.
  • Experience of facilitating and delivering training to colleagues
  • Ability to manage potentially hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmospheres, disseminating unwelcome information in a sensitive manner.
  • Ability to prioritise workload and sound personal organisational skills.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working with children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties

Qualificantions and professional training

Essential criteria
  • RGN/RN/RSCN/RM
  • Portfolio of evidence demonstrating continued professional development
Desirable criteria
  • Nursing Degree or allied health practitioner equivalent
  • Registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse or RSCN
  • Teaching and or Mentorship qualification

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Flexibility in work patterns
  • Ability to balance work/home life
  • Good Communicator
  • Able to travel between sites

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldHSJ Best places to workArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.We offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Kirsty Thomason
Job title
Named Nurse
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07747476577
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