To work alongside the Named Doctor for Children Looked After to ensure that high quality, evidenced based health services are delivered. To provide expert professional advice, supervision, education and training to maintain clinical excellence for all staff who have direct involvement with Children Looked After and their carer’s. In addition, to provide support to all staff in various agencies who work with Children Looked After and their carer’s.
To provide expert advice and information to commissioners and Designated Professionals to improve the health and well-being of looked after children.
To line manage staff within the Hillingdon CLA health team.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
• To provide strategic and operational leadership, advanced knowledge and skills, expert advice and support on CLA issues to commissioners, managers, practitioners and other staff across the NHS & Hillingdon Local Authority.
• To have excellent knowledge of local/national policies and procedures including those across other agencies that are relevant to health care provision for looked after children. Including an understanding of the care orders under which children are accommodated, parental consent and confidentiality and Children Act 1989 & 2004 procedures.
• To provide clinical leadership, expert advice and support on health issues for CLA to social services, education, all health care providers, foster carers and residential children’s homes, developing care plans and reviewing health care provided.
• Provide advice to the service and to the local authority, on questions of planning, strategy, commissioning and the audit of quality standards including ensuring appropriate performance indicators are in place in relation to health services for CLA.
• To ensure that high quality statutory health assessments for looked after children placed in Hillingdon and throughout the UK take place within statutory timescales; allocating cases where required to the appropriate professional.
• To work with all health care organisations to monitor performance of local health services for looked after children and young people
There are many good reasons to choose to come and work with Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) which is one of the largest Trusts in the UK, caring for people with a wide range of physical and mental health needs.
Over the last few years our catchment area has grown significantly, making the Trust's population more diverse than ever. The area spans the communities of London, Milton Keynes and wider geographical areas of Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Kent and Hampshire.
The Trust is organised in to three Divisions: Jameson, Goodall and Diggory. Goodall Division is responsible for the delivery of Mental Health and community Learning Disability services in Hillingdon, as well as all CNWL's specialist rehabilitation provision and CAMHS provision in NW London. We also deliver community physical health services in a number of boroughs in NW London, including Hillingdon Harrow, Ealing and neighbouring System of North Central London.
You will always be part of a dynamic and experienced Children Looked After Team consisting of nurses and doctor's that work closely with 0-19 staff and children's community nurses to provide community services to the children and young people of Hillingdon.
Our staff play a fundamental role in our delivery of excellent outcomes and excellent patient experience, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.
Please see the Job Description for details on the full responsibilities of the role.
Co-ordination, communication and liaison
• Work with the Head of Children’s Services and Clinical Service Manager to agree the team’s priorities, and contribute to service planning within health & local authority Children Looked After services. This will include identifying ways to improve communication and joint working arrangements between NHS and local authority teams in partnership with the Designated Nurse for Children Looked After.
• Work closely and attend regular liaison meeting with other named Children Looked After and Designated Safeguarding Professionals locally and nationally.
• Liaise with, advise, and support Children Looked After specialist health staff across the health community.
• Liaise with NW London ICB, children’s social care, other service planning organisations, other health boards over health assessments and health plans for out of area placements.
• To promote and develop collaborative interagency working on all issues relating to CLA.
• To ensure that the views of young people inform the design and delivery of local health services for CLA.
• To work with Youth Council members to ensure that young people are actively involved in developing health services.
• To work in partnership with young people and other agencies to identify and organise activities which promote the health and wellbeing of CLA.
• Where Hillingdon children are placed outside of the Borough the post holder will ensure liaison with relevant agencies and professionals across that local economy in order to maintain continuity of care.
• To lead on the implementation of Quality Improvement Plans within CNWL and other agreed areas across Hillingdon.
• To design and undertake health promotion work with individuals / groups of young people looked after and their carer’s.
• To participate in local and regional events,conferences and workshops as necessary.
Inter-agency responsibilities
• Be a member of the Corporate Parenting Board in conjunction with other health service planners/commissioners.
• Provide health advice on policy and individual cases to statutory and voluntary agencies, including the Police and Children’s Social Care.
Monitoring and information management
• To monitor the performance of NHS staff who undertake health assessments to ensure a high-quality standard of assessment is maintained and to take appropriate action where this is found to be inadequate.
• To collect data and present reports, advising ICB Commissioner’s and Local Authority on the health needs of CLA and implications for service delivery and planning.
• Provide advice on monitoring of elements of contracts, service level agreements and commissioned services to ensure the quality of provision for Children Looked After including systems and records to:
• ensure the quality of health assessments carried out meet the required standard
• ensure full registration of each Child Looked After and all care leavers with a GP, dentist and optometrist and that all relevant checks are undertaken .
• ensure that sensitive health promotion is offered to all Children Looked After and Young People
• ensure implementation of health plans for individual children;
• ensure an effective system of audit is in place
• Take part in any commissioner-provider governance meetings.
• Work with Named Doctor to produce monthly reports highlighting how many children had initial and review health assessments in that period.
• Undertake an analysis of the range of health neglect and need for health care for local Children Looked After i.e. case mix analysis to inform service planning; contributing to the production of health data on Children Looked After across the health community.
• Analyse the patterns of health care referrals and their outcomes; and evaluate the extent to which looked after children and young people’s views inform the design and delivery of the local health services for them.
• Use the above to influence local service planning and commissioning decisions.
• To co-produce with the Named Doctor for CLA an annual report for the CNWL Board, NW London ICB and Local Authority; evaluating the delivery and effectiveness of health services for Hillingdon’s CLA.
• To maintain effective record keeping systems for notifications of CLA, health assessments and their implementation
This advert closes on Friday 4 Apr 2025
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