Children in Care Nurse

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint 2 X 0.6 WTE (3 day posts) Children in Care Nurses to support the Named Nurse and Specialist Nurse Children in Care within Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust – based at Coral House Shrewsbury.

The successful applicants will be passionate practitioners with demonstrable experience of advocating for and working with Children in Care and Care Leavers.

The successful candidates will join the organisation at a time of exciting transformation and change. These are new posts in addition to our current nursing team.

We are committed to delivering the best care for our Children in Care and Care Leavers.

You will have the opportunity to be creative and deliver training engaging carers and partner agencies to ensure that health needs are assessed and met for Children in Care.

The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate experience working with children of all ages, vulnerable groups and those with additional health needs.

The successful candidates will share this commitment and demonstrate our Trust values. We are looking for enthusiastic, organised and forward-thinking Nurses who can articulate practical ideas on how the Trust can further develop its service, particularly regarding the upper age Children in Care and Care Leavers.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Main duties of the job

You should have experience of partnership working with key stakeholders; innovation and development and knowledge and understanding of delivery against key performance targets. If you enjoy being a part of a team, whilst being confident to manage your own workload and want to make a positive difference to the lives of vulnerable children and young people we would be delighted to hear from you.

This is a county wide post therefore you must be able to meet the travel requirements of the post. There are two base options Coral house, Shrewsbury and Stepping Stones, Telford. Please note full duty requirements can be discussed pre or post interview.

You must demonstrate how your experience and skills meet the criteria as listed in the person specification for your application to be shortlisted.

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential

  • Be registered on Part 1 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register as a children’s nurse or mental health nurse/adult nurse with significant experience working with vulnerable children and young people or Part 3 as a specialist community health nurse.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working with Children in Care and Care Leavers
  • Experience of working in a community setting
  • Experience of holding Children in Care/Care Leavers caseloads
  • Experience of working with young people who can be difficult to engage and display challenging behaviours
  • Demonstrated experience of co-working in complex and challenging environments
  • Demonstrable experience of working with partner agencies to promote the health of Children in Care

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • Sound Knowledge of legislation and policy relevant to Children in Care
  • Current knowledge of NHS safeguarding policy and process and underpinning legislation regarding Children in Care
  • Demonstrate knowledge of inter-agency working particularly with regard to Children in Care
  • IT skills and computer literacy
  • Understanding of the wider healthcare environment
  • Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to partners from a broad range agencies, disciplines and services
  • Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
  • Numerate and able to understand complex data combined with good analytical skills
  • Able to challenge decisions and articulate rationale effectively

Other

Essential

  • Must be able to meet the travel requirements of the post

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 23 July 2026

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