Specialist Nurse CYPiC Lead for 18-25 year olds: Sponsorship Available

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 nurse to join our ambitious, friendly and supportive Children and Young People in Care Team as a specialist nurse for care leavers aged 18-25 years, offering advice and support for our care-experienced young people to assist them with meeting their health care needs effectively. This specialist nurse post will be suited to someone wanting to provide a high quality, proactive service to enhance the health and wellbeing of our young people who have left care. We need an individual who is kind, caring and has determination and a passion to support this group and improve health outcomes.

Main duties of the job

Main duties for the postholder include being required to work collaboratively as part of a multiagency team, including the local authority, to safeguard and promote the health and wellbeing of care leavers. The postholder will need good communication skills and also knowledge, skills and experience of practicing within a safeguarding framework. Attendance at the Care Leaver Hub weekly will be required to offer a drop-in service for the young people. Within the Hub setting there will be a requirement to devise and deliver health promotion sessions, therefore the skills and experience of delivering health promotion sessions to groups will be necessary. Attendance atMulti-Agency Transition Forums to discuss individual young people as they approach leaving care will be required as well as working closely with the CYPiC specialist nurses to ensure effective transition to adult services for our young people. There will also be a requirement to carry out home visits when necessary to offer individual advice and support to young people.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • NMC Registration Nurse
  • Degree level education
  • Evidence of professional updating in the last 12 months
  • Relevant post graduate specialty qualification or equivalent experience knowledge
  • Suitability to work with adults/children at risk of abuse
  • Patient user involvement/advocacy
  • Can act on own initiative
  • Excellent written and verbal skills and record keeping
  • Presentation skills to small or large groups
  • Flexible approach to work out of hours working to meet the needs of the service
  • Ability to work in a variety of settings, including community and acute setting

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: 21 August 2026

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