Specialist Clinical Nurse – Phoenix Team

Job overview

Are you looking for a new challenge within a proactive and committed team dedicated to promoting the health and wellbeing of children and young people (CYP)?

A rare opportunity has arisen to join the  highly regarded Phoenix Team. As a specialist nurse,  you will act as a health lead for a defined cohort of children/young people in Oxfordshire to address health inequalities and improve health outcomes for these children.

The defined cohort includes Children We Care For (Looked After Children), CYP in the Youth Justice System (post court) and CYP at risk of/ being exploited.

This is a varied and challenging role providing ample opportunity for professional development and high job satisfaction.

Main duties of the job

You will undertake and monitor the quality of the statutory review health assessments for Children We Care For ( Looked After Children) resulting in robust health plans and follow up actions.

In addition you will also offer CYP under the Youth Justice Service and those at risk of/ being  exploited a review of their health needs and ongoing work in order to facilitate access to health care and address identified health need.

You will be dynamic and creative in approaching CYP to get the best out of an intervention.  You will source and adapt resources and approaches to provide relevant, effective, and evidence-based health education.

Collaborative working is key to this role . You will build robust relationships and offer specialist health advice and support to colleagues within Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxfordshire County Council, Social Care staff, foster carers, care providers, residential units and REOC services and the Youth Justice and Exploitation Service .

You will safeguard CYP at risk of harm through one to one work  alongside contributing to multiagency forums including Missing and Exploited Panel; National Referral Mechanism Panel; MARAMPS; Strategy Discussions; Child Protection Conferences and core groups; Child in Need meetings; CWCF Reviews; Professional Meetings, and be the health representative relevant to the child’s protection and care planning.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Utilise high levels of interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive information, in order to analyse and act on own interpretation of the assessed clinical situation and provide effective, public health intervention and/or where appropriate, refer on to specialist services.
• Where appropriate, to act as a lead health professional for children under the multi-agency Youth Justice and Exploitation Service (YJES) to provide expert specialist advice, training and support within Oxfordshire on health issues. To take the lead in developing and planning health practice within this multi-agency team.
• Demonstrate resilience and effectively manage the emotional intensity of the therapeutic relationship between the practitioner and client.
• Work as an autonomous practitioner, managing a clinical caseload of children alongside other service demands, while ensuring timescales and key performance indicators are met including making judgements where situations are complex and fast changing.