Senior Specialist Nurse Cared for Children (Looked after Children)
Closed for applications on: 10-Rhag-2025 00:01
Statws y swydd wag: Closed
Closed for applications on: 10-Rhag-2025 00:01
Manylion allweddol
Lleoliad
- Gwefan
- Rusholme Health Centre
- Cyfeiriad
- Walmer Street
- Tref
- Manchester
- Cod post
- M14 5NP
- Major / Minor Region
- Manceinion
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- Contract
- Parhaol
- Oriau
- Rhan-amser - 30 awr yr wythnos
Cyflog
- Cyflog
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum (pro rata)
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yn flynyddol
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Arbenigedd
- Prif leoliad
- Safeguarding
Trosolwg o'r swydd
We are currently recruiting to a full time Senior Specialist Nurse Cared for Children (looked after children) based predominantly in the community site but covering the city of Manchester.
This post is an exciting opportunity for a motivated, committed, and skilled nurse with experience working with cared for children. Working with vulnerable groups where there are complex safeguarding concerns or young people who are unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
To succeed, you will need to be highly motivated to ensure safe and effective services for cared for children remains a priority for all staff working within the organisation across acute and community services. You will need excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills and a flair for critically evaluating information and recording it in a concise and accurate manner. Comfortable working under pressure, adept at prioritising and working flexibly often to a deadline you will be well supported to further your own professional knowledge, skills, and development within this highly specialised area.
You will be given the opportunity to receive safeguarding/ looked after children development, supervision, and training within a highly motivated and committed team. Please use the contact details below for further information or to arrange an informal discussion/visit.
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- To work as part of the MFT Safeguarding Team.
- To provide leadership and be accountable for the development, supervision, co-ordination and day to day management of the Specialist Cared for Children Health Team.
- To provide leadership, support, advice, and expertise to health practitioners across the Trust around the specific needs of care experienced individuals.
- To provide virtual oversight (advice, consultation, co-ordination, and health liaison) to all cared for children with respect to their health needs and outcomes.
- Contribute to the production of health data for cared for children to inform profiling and analysis.
- To lead on the delivery and development of training in respect of the specific needs of care experienced individuals.
- To support the Named Nurse Cared for Children in the development and implementation of mandatory policies and procedures, standards, and audit and to take part in initiatives which promote the health and wellbeing of care experienced individuals.
- To act as a resource and an expert source of support/ supervision for those working with cared for children.
- To contribute to providing health expertise to multi-agency colleagues
- Contribute to strategic work with regards to the health needs profiling, placement stability, quality of care and improving the health and wellbeing of cared for children.
- To manage a clinical caseload within an agreed criteria, co-ordinate and plan care for cared for children.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
| Join Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) and become part of a 30,000 plus strong team, delivering exceptional care to over 1 million people every year. As the largest provider of specialist services, and our Oxford Road Campus in Manchester, the largest health academic campus in Europe, we are forward-thinking, committed to clinical excellence and driven to deliver innovation, and continuous improvement. Whether you’re beginning your career or taking the next step, MFT offers a stimulating and supportive environment where your contribution truly matters. Our Hive Electronic Patient Record system enables safer, smarter, and more efficient ways of working - empowering you to deliver the best possible outcomes for our patients. You’ll be part of a collaborative, multi-disciplinary community, working alongside professionals from a wide range of clinical backgrounds. Together, we push boundaries, share knowledge, and deliver care that transforms lives. At MFT, you’ll find a workplace where everyone is respected, supported, and encouraged to thrive. We offer clear clinical pathways for professional development, helping you grow your skills and achieve your ambitions. Your journey at MFT is more than a job - it’s an opportunity to make a lasting impact. We’ll support you as you shape the future of healthcare, one patient at a time. |
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To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in your application
Here at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, we’re proud to be ALL HERE FOR YOU—for our patients, our communities, and each other.
As part of our commitment to fairness, transparency, and personal integrity, we ask all applicants to ensure that their job applications reflect their own experiences, skills, and motivations. While AI tools can support spelling, grammar, or formatting, we expect that the content of your application—especially personal statements and responses to role-specific questions—is written by you. This helps us get to know the real you and ensures that our recruitment process remains equitable and meaningful for everyone.
Thank you for helping us uphold the values that make our Trust a place where people belong, grow, and thrive. We look forward to receiving your application.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, please contact the manager named below.
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Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- First level Registered Nurse with substantial post registration experience
- Specialist Practitioner in Public Health Nursing/Health Visiting/School Nursing (or equivalent relevant experience/degree)
Meini prawf dymunol
- Relevant Master’s degree or equivalent level of qualification
- Appropriate management/leadership courses
- Teaching qualification ENB 998 or equivalent
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Substantial post registration experience working with Cared For Children
- Evidence of professional leadership
- Experience of multiagency working with looked after children and young people
- Working knowledge of children's health and development and the nature and impact of abuse
- Awareness of issues affecting ethnic minorities and other socially excluded groups
- Experience of delivering training
- Experience of policy development and implementation
- Experience and contribution to single and multi agency audit processes
Meini prawf dymunol
- Accredited training qualification
Knowledge, skills and aptitudes
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Knowledge of current local and national safeguarding/looked after children policies, guidance and legislation
- Evidence of excellent communication skills with “hard to reach” children and young people
- Experience of report writing
- Ability to analyse and critically evaluate information and record in a concise and accurate manner
- Ability to communicate well across organizational and professional boundaries
- Ability to work under pressure, to prioritize, work flexibly and to tight deadlines
- Experience of completion of audits and reports within timescales
- Evidence of Innovative Practice
- Evidence of presentation skills
- IT skills: including emailing, word processing and data collation
Meini prawf dymunol
- Clinical/safeguarding supervision training
- Understanding of clinical governance
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Elizabeth Ross
- Teitl y swydd
- Named Nurse Cared for Children
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 0161 8612254
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