Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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