Children In Care Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 04/09/2026
- Closes
- 29/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Children in Care Nurse to support highly complex and vulnerable children and young people, ensuring they achieve their full health potential. The nurse will independently assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care programmes, manage their own caseload, and conduct statutory Review Health Assessments. It involves multi-agency liaison, safeguarding, and providing specialist advice to professionals.
Essential criteria
- Ability to independently assess, plan implement and evaluate programmes of quality care for highly complex & vulnerable children & young people
- Ability to independently write comprehensive reports
- An understanding of Working Together to Safeguard Children and other supporting legislation / guidance
- Demonstrable post qualification experience of working with children & young people in a range of settings
- Multi-agency liaison & collaboration, with respect to complex children's cases
- Ability to work autonomously
- Personal Attributes
- Must be able to demonstrate compassionate care for this client group
- Must be able to exercise initiative
- Other
- Must hold current driving licence and be a car user
- nurse /midwife qualification and registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Knowledge & Skills
- Ability to independently assess, plan implement and evaluate programmes of quality care for highly complex & vulnerable children & young people
- Ability to independently write comprehensive reports
- An understanding of Working Together to Safeguard Children and other supporting legislation / guidance
- Demonstrable post qualification experience of working with children & young people in a range of settings
- Multi-agency liaison & collaboration, with respect to complex children's cases
- Ability to work autonomously
- Personal Attributes
- Must be able to demonstrate compassionate care for this client group
- Must be able to exercise initiative
- Other
- Must hold current driving licence and be a car user
- nurse /midwife qualification and registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC)
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
Children In Care Nurse
The closing date is 29 September 2026
Job summary
Full Time Only Children in Care Nurse - Band 6
37.5 hours per week Only, permanent role
Please note you may be required to take part in a young persons interview panel as part of this interview process.
Due to internal promotion, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Nurse with significant experience of working with Children in Care, to join our caring and compassionate team. We are looking for someone who wants to make a real difference to the children we work with.
This role offers a fantastic opportunity to be part of a trauma informed innovative team, become an expert nurse, use your clinical analysis skills autonomously, and be an evidenced-based practitioner.
We are seeking a nurse who can comprehensively assess the health, development and social-emotional needs of both the 0-5 and 5-18 age group. So applications from experienced Health Visitors or SCPHN qualified colleagues are particularly invited.
Applicants must have confident report writing skills, be able to work independently, have significant safeguarding experience, the ability to plan, prioritise and time manage their own workload. Applicants will need to be able to work well under pressure and be emotionally resilient practitioners.
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