Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Job summary
To work as a Physical Health Care Lead/Non-Medical Prescriber in the Clayfields Health Care Team in the Local Authority Secure Children’s Home. Working with a defined autonomous caseload under supervision of the Clayfields Health Team Operational Leader, visiting General Practitioner and Advance Nurse Practitioner. Providing high-quality nursing care, through assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating physical health care plans for young people. Focusing on the public health needs of the population of young people within Clayfields Secure Unit( ages 10-17) and developing the nursing aspects of the healthy school’s programme including vaccinations.
To provide appropriate nursing care for young people with regards to their physical health needs, primarily via face-to-face contact. Providing advice and information to Children and Young People in a secure setting, the Health Care team, Local Authority Care staff and other stakeholders as appropriate and required.
Main duties of the job
As part of the Clayfields House Health Team providing 1:1 and group interventions and contributing to the delivery of education programmes for children and young people and teaching and training for Clayfields Staff.
To provide appropriate nursing care for young people with regards to their physical health needs, primarily via face-to-face contact. Providing advice and information to Children and Young People in a secure setting, the Health Care team, Local Authority Care staff and other stakeholder as appropriate and required.
To work with young people who have a wide range of physical health care needs, alongside other complexities of mental health, trauma and attachment difficulties, neurodiversity, communication/sensory needs, substance misuse, health inequalities and social care need.
Person Specification
Training
Essential
- Portfolio of relevant post qualification CPD highly including specialist knowledge of professional interventions and evaluations
- Training in working with children and young people.
Desirable
- Leadership training
- Clinical educator/mentorship
Qualifications/Academic/Craft/Professional
Essential
- A Registered Nurse with Specialist Practitioner Degree/Diploma in specific areas of practice, ie/ School Nursing, Paediatric Nursing.
- A Non-Medical Prescriber qualification
Contractual requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel between sites
- Driver’s licence
- Contribution to on call-rota for physical healthcare care plans for admissions out of hours
Values and Behaviour
Essential
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust’s expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation
Skills
Essential
- Empathetic and psychologically minded
- Excellent written and oral communication skills for a variety of audiences, and in situations
- Well organised and able to prioritise a high turnover caseload
- Excellent clinical reasoning skills
- Leadership skills
- Extensive experience of supporting other staff and students
- Motivated and a motivator
- Team builder and team member
- Autonomous and able to work without direct supervision
- Reflective practitioner
- Ability to manage own wellbeing with access to supervision to sustain this
- IT skills – to support clinical and service needs and developments
Physical Requirements
Essential
- Working in a secure environment and being a trained keyholder. Ability to move around the secure environment.
Desirable
- Physical skills in line with Managing Violence and Aggression /Breakaway training where applicable
Experience
Essential
- Working experience of assessing and managing a complex caseload with young people and/or adults with profession specific needs in a specialist area
- Knowledge of Risk Assessment and ability to ensure effective risk management strategies within specialism. oExperience of effective multi-disciplinary/agency working and established interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Experience of designing and delivering different learning and development opportunities for staff teams
- Ensures that Clinical Governance/patient safety issues are understood and addressed in practice.
- Experience in developing evaluation / audit tools and resources as a part of multi-professional team
- Experience of leading the clinical and professional development of others including students
Knowledge
Essential
- Highly specialist applied clinical knowledge
- Highly specialist knowledge of how mental and physical health contribute to risk assessment and support management
- Applied knowledge of risk assessment within field of clinical practice
- Knowledge of national policy and guidance and impact on local practice
Desirable
- Applied leadership knowledge
Closing Date: 27 September 2026
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