Senior Specialist Nurse Cared for Children (Looked after Children)

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the 'Supporting Documents' heading. So that you're even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you'll need to take time to read the 'Candidate Essentials Guide' that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how 'we care for you as you care for others'. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you'll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in your application

Here at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, we're proud to be ALL HERE FOR YOU-for our patients, our communities, and each other.

As part of our commitment to fairness, transparency, and personal integrity, we ask all applicants to ensure that their job applications reflect their own experiences, skills, and motivations. While AI tools can support spelling, grammar, or formatting, we expect that the content of your application-especially personal statements and responses to role-specific questions-is written by you. This helps us get to know the real you and ensures that our recruitment process remains equitable and meaningful for everyone.

Thank you for helping us uphold the values that make our Trust a place where people belong, grow, and thrive. We look forward to receiving your application.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, please contact the manager named below.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• First level Registered Nurse with substantial post registration experience
• Specialist Practitioner in Public Health Nursing/Health Visiting/School Nursing (or equivalent relevant experience/degree)

Desirable criteria

• Relevant Master's degree or equivalent level of qualification
• Appropriate management/leadership courses
• Teaching qualification ENB 998 or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria

• Substantial post registration experience working with Cared For Children
• Evidence of professional leadership
• Experience of multiagency working with looked after children and young people
• Working knowledge of children's health and development and the nature and impact of abuse
• Awareness of issues affecting ethnic minorities and other socially excluded groups
• Experience of delivering training
• Experience of policy development and implementation
• Experience and contribution to single and multi agency audit processes

Desirable criteria

• Accredited training qualification

Knowledge, skills and aptitudes

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of current local and national safeguarding/looked after children policies, guidance and legislation
• Evidence of excellent communication skills with "hard to reach" children and young people
• Experience of report writing
• Ability to analyse and critically evaluate information and record in a concise and accurate manner
• Ability to communicate well across organizational and professional boundaries
• Ability to work under pressure, to prioritize, work flexibly and to tight deadlines
• Experience of completion of audits and reports within timescales
• Evidence of Innovative Practice
• Evidence of presentation skills
• IT skills: including emailing, word processing and data collation

Desirable criteria

• Clinical/safeguarding supervision training
• Understanding of clinical governance

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job Description Band 7 SSN (PDF, 192.6KB)
• Functional Requirements Form Band 7 SSN (PDF, 928.2KB)
• Candidate Essential Guide Non Medical (PDF, 1.3MB)