Named Nurse Children In Care

Published: Published 3 days ago

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Named Nurse for Children in Care to join our Haringey team to support and to deliver a commissioned service which includes meeting statutory roles and responsibilities for children looked after, young people and care leavers from birth to 18 years. This is a trauma informed role working with children who have a lived experience of Adverse Childhood Experience and may be unaccompanied asylum seeking young people, children placed for adoption, or may have Special Educational Needs (SEND) and Educational Health Care Plans in place (EHCP). The children may live with family or connected persons, with foster carers, or in residential home settings in or out of the local area.

The Named Nurse will be responsible to and accountable within the managerial framework of Whittington Health.

The named nurse alongside the Named Doctor, Designated Doctor and Specialty Doctors for looked after children are leaders in Whittington Health to ensure that looked after children's issues are reflected in policies, and service delivery across the provider organisation. They also have a responsibility to support the organization to manage and quality assure health assessments for children placed in and out of area in line with the service specification and Intercollegiate document for Looked after Children: roles and competencies of healthcare staff (December 2025).

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The Named Nurse will support the the Designated Doctor and Designated Nurse and Named Doctor to be responsible for day to day leadership to the team, supervision, lead on development, implementation, and evaluation of service delivery, ensure that policies and procedures are implemented and ensure statutory health assessments and health care plans meet quality standard in accordance with statutory guidance.

Lead innovation, influence change, and monitor the Children in Care service across the NCL community, to ensure adherence to legislation, policy and key statutory and non-statutory guidance.

Ensure the delivery of a high quality, responsive service to meet the health needs of the Children in Care population. This will be achieved through research-based practice and audit of quality standards. Facilitate the service on a day-to-day basis, through clinical leadership, managerial and operational responsibilities for the Children in Care team.

Provide a high level of operational expertise which aims to improve the health outcomes for Children in Care and care leavers.

Will be required to work closely with the Local / regional agenda and partner agencies. Overall, safeguarding the continuous delivery of high-quality services, identifying gap, and managing risk across the area of service delivery.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.

Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.

Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
Participate in required training and supervision.
Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information –

You must already have the right to work in the United Kingdom or fully meet the eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. We welcome applications from candidates who require visa sponsorship; however, we can only consider these where all UKVI requirements are met. Before applying, please ensure that both you and the role satisfy the relevant UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) points‑based system criteria, as applications that do not meet these requirements cannot be progressed. For more information about the criteria, please click here
Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

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We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation