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The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to CYP in North Lanarkshire who are care experienced. The successful candidates will be part of the Specialist Children's Health Services Unit. This will support them to work collaboratively with colleagues and wider partners to make a real difference.

The main role the Care Experienced Young Persons Nurse - Throughcare and Aftercare is to provide caring and compassionate interventions that are underpinned by Scotland’s Promise to young people who are identified as needing additional support as they move towards adulthood. The foundations of the Promise will facilitate the role of these nurses to provide a scaffold of support to young people who are linked with North Lanarkshire’s Through and Aftercare Teams.
Care will be specifically focussed on health interventions that can maximise improvements in short and longer term outcomes for the young people identified. These interventions will be delivered as part of a whole system compassionate response to what the young person identifies that they need to grow and develop into healthy adulthood.

The post will support the foundations of the Promise and young people in receipt of Throughcare and Aftercare. A primary function of this role would be to provide the scaffolding of help and support to assist care leavers in achieving the best possible outcomes and transition successfully into adulthood. Care will be supported with view to improved assessment of health needs and review of any support pathways and promote self-efficacy. For the young people identified, aged up 25 years (until 26th Birthday). The post holder will work in close partnership with the Throughcare and Aftercare team and all identified partners and agencies.

The post holder will be responsible and accountable for maintaining all clinical, staff and information governance.

NHS Lanarkshire

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

What we'll need you to bring

• Registered nurse at degree level or equivalent
• Post-registration qualification in public protection / child protection/Sexual Health/School Health or Health Visiting Qualifications & Knowledge
• Educated to Masters level in a relevant nursing area, or
  
• Can demonstrate an equivalent level of knowledge gained through, for example, completion of NES modules on Assessment, Leadership, and Critical Thinking.
• Can provide advice using significant understanding and application of legislation relating to information sharing, data storage and public protection
• Knowledge of health and social care pathways related to safeguarding, early intervention and protection
Knowledge of current legislation underpinning practice eg UNCRC, Getting it Right for Every Child and The promise

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• Qualities and Skills
• Can demonstrate the following skills and attributes:
• Experience of caseload management and planning to meet deadlines
• Experience of using a strength based approach working in partnership with families
• Able to use a number of assessment tools used to decide referral pathways
• Management of risks and concerns using critical thinking to enable effective decision making
• Ability to provide professional advice within a multi-agency setting that puts children’s interests and safety first
• Can lead discussions and make decisions based on an assessment of a range of factors in complex situations
• Ability to develop and implement policies, procedures, service standards and improvements
• An ongoing commitment to continuing professional development
• The post holder should fulfil the NHS Scotland core values of care, compassion, dignity, respect, openness, honesty, responsibility and teamwork.
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Contract type

Fixed Term or Secondment for 2 years

Full time

37.5 hours

Please note this is a fixed term post for 2 years. Where a post only has temporary funding and an existing member of NHS Lanarkshire staff wishes to apply, this will be treated as a secondment. The employee MUST already have written agreement from their line manager to be released on a secondment before applying for the post.

Location and Working Pattern

This role will be based in SCHSU/School Nurse Team within Coathill Hospital.

The working pattern for this role Mon- Fri( 9-5). May need to work flexibly into evening to meet needs as and when

Looking to find out more?

If you’re looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Laura Jack, Service Improvement Manager, Hospital Management on - [email protected]

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Gemma Lowe, Recruitment Administrator on [email protected](Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)

Why NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service

• A minimum of 8 days of public holidays

• Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)

• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service

• Occupational health services

• Employee Counselling services

• Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

Further Information

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.

Additional Information for Applicants

• Posts close at midnight on the indicated date
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In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

We anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the advert once sufficient applications are received. Please complete and submit your application early.

• Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this, must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any Worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by UK Visas and Immigrations. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. Candidates who require a Certificate of Sponsorship can access further information at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk Skilled worker Visa and all current immigration rules are available at www.gov.uk

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