Job summary
- Main area
- Children in Care
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 203-FH1154
- Employer
- South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Riversley Park Clinic
- Town
- Nuneaton
- Salary
- per annum
- Closing
- 07/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Nurse - Children in Care
Band 7
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is one of the top performing organisations within the NHS. Our staff think this is a great place to work and we hope you will agree. We have recently been rated as 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following our most recent inspection.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the whole county. This includes our Community Teams in North Warwickshire.
We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Over 6000 people work for the Trust and many of them have been here a long time. People find they don’t need to go elsewhere to find a fulfilling career in healthcare.
The first thing you will notice about us is how we take our values seriously. We believe that our values underpin everything we do. If you are interested in a role with us you need to make sure our values match your own.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide inclusive, safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Checks
Many of the roles we advertise have a requirement for a DBS check to be carried out. If you are successful for a role and it requires a DBS check the Trust will carry out the initial check and subscription to the DBS Update Service, however successful candidates will be expected to cover the associated costs . Details of this will be sent to successful candidates in their offer letter.
Probationary Period
All new staff to the Trust will be subject to a standard 6 month probationary period, the details of which will duly follow in your contract of employment.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is committed to creating and sustaining a positive and inclusive working environment for all our employees. Our aim is to ensure that employees are equally valued and respected and that our organisation is representative of all members of society. We define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual – we value our employees, job applicants, students, patients and visitors as people. This is reflected within our values of being Inclusive, Safe, Effective, Compassionate and Trusted.
As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:
https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2
We appreciate you completing the survey.
Agile and Flexible Working
All our staff will have a work base. However the Trust operates as an Agile Working Team therefore staff may be working from home on a regular basis as required by the service. However, occasionally travel around Warwickshire and into your base will be required so access to your own transport would be helpful.
The Trust also welcome staff to work flexibly and we would welcome the conversation at interview regarding flexible working.
Staff Benefits
The Trust offer a wide range of additional benefits to staff. Anyone who joins us on a substantive basis can assess things such as the Lease Car Scheme, Electronics Scheme, Discounted Leisure and Travel, Cycle to work scheme amongst many others available.
Car Parking
The Trust currently have limited availability of car parking spaces, as such are operating a waiting list for new starters joining the organisation.
To keep up to date on our latest recruitment activity follow us on twitter @swftrecruit or look us up on Facebook (Recruitment - South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust).
Visa Sponsorship
The Trust will only consider sponsoring staff for certain roles, however this will be considered on a case by case basis in line with current legislation. As an employer we are unable to offer sponsorship to all roles in particular we cannot offer sponsorship for roles below Band 5.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and innovative Specialist Nurse to join the Warwickshire Children in Care Team, South Warwickshire Foundation Trust. This is a senior level post, therefore, knowledge and experience is required to reflect this.
The successful applicant will work collaboratively with the Named Nurse/Specialist Nurses and Named/Designated Doctor to ensure that the organisation meets its responsibilities to Children in Care by carrying out, high quality, complex, timely health assessments working in partnership with other agencies to ensure that the health needs for Children in Care are met in a holistic and timely manner.
If you would like to be part of our journey, we will welcome your application.
Main duties of the job
To quality assess and monitor completed review health assessments for Children in Care including those with complex needs or identified as hard to reach.
To work in collaboration with service providers across the local health economy and with partner agencies within and outside the county, to ensure that the health of Children in Care is a priority of practice and service provision.
To undertake high quality, complex, timely health assessments for Children in Care, young people and care leavers including asylum seekers and work with interpreters as required
To engage with hard to reach children and young people in order to effectively ensure their health needs are identified and met.
To provide expert direct clinical practice plus advise and support practitioners across the health economy in health matters relating to Children in Care, which is consistent with current professional standards and promotes best practice, as single agency and multi-agency events, supported by the Integrated Care Pathway.
The post holder will provide expert advice, training and supervision to those who work directly with looked after children e.g. foster carers and social workers.
Working for our organisation
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:
https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2
We appreciate you completing the survey.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To quality assess and monitor completed review health assessments for Children in Care including those with complex needs or identified as hard to reach.
To work in collaboration with service providers across the local health economy and with partner agencies within and outside the county, to ensure that the health of Children in Care is a priority of practice and service provision.
To undertake high quality, complex, timely health assessments for Children in Care, young people and care leavers including asylum seekers and work with interpreters as required
To engage with hard to reach children and young people in order to effectively ensure their health needs are identified and met.
To provide expert direct clinical practice plus advise and support practitioners across the health economy in health matters relating to Children in Care, which is consistent with current professional standards and promotes best practice, as single agency and multi-agency events, supported by the Integrated Care Pathway.
The post holder will provide expert advice, training and supervision to those who work directly with looked after children e.g. foster carers and social workers.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RN/RGN/Specialist Community Public Health Nurse
- Degree in nursing / health visiting / school nursing/ related subject
- Master’s degree in related/relevant subject or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant recent post qualification experience with a substantial period at Band 6
- Experience of working with vulnerable children
- Experience of managing own workload
- Must be able to make autonomous decisions
- Experience of taking management responsibility / Leadership skills
- Experience of providing supervision for nurses / specialist community practitioners and administrators
- Experience of service development and innovation
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with children in care
Skills
Essential criteria
- Robust understanding of legislation and guidance relating to Children in Care
- Robust understanding of legislation and guidance for Children in Care
- Sound knowledge of national and local guidelines for Children in Care and protecting children
- Competent or willing to train to be competent in venepuncture
- Excellent clinical skills providing direct work with vulnerable groups
- Demonstrate excellent record keeping skills
- Ability to lead on audit
- Chair meetings in absence of Named Nurse
- Use data to construct reports
- Excellent oral, written communication, report writing and presentation skills
- Must be able to demonstrate excellent negotiation skills across agencies concerning vulnerable groups
- Must be able to work confidently in a multi-agency environment and make autonomous complex clinical and organisational decisions
- Must demonstrate effective leadership skills
- Must be able to demonstrate effective management skills
- Must be able to make autonomous decisions
- Must demonstrate an ability to effectively plan, prepare, deliver, evaluate and update training packages in response to national and local guidance
- Must be able to demonstrate sound knowledge of Clinical Governance
- Evidence of continued, up to date extensive and relevant professional development and training at national, regional and local level
- Must have the ability to work as part of a team
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Must have excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills
- Must be able to demonstrate a robust understanding of the need for confidentiality in all aspects of the work of the department and ensure that this is demonstrated by more junior staff
- Must be able to demonstrate a sound understanding of equal opportunities
- Must be self-motivated
- Must be able to influence and motivate others
- Must be an excellent timekeeper
- Must be reliable and work with integrity at all times
Other Job requirements
Essential criteria
- Must be a non-smoker whilst on duty
- Must have access to independent transport
- Must be willing to undertake Criminal Records Bureau to enhanced level
- Must be legally entitled to work in this country
- Must have sound IT skills or be prepared to undertake training and be able to work with a range of Microsoft packages
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Carla Elliott
- Job title
- Lead Named Nurse Children in Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07919015007
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