Job overview

Make a meaningful impact on the lives of children and families in our community by joining the Integrated Children & Families Service, a collaboration between the Northern Care Alliance and Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council. We are seeking an enthusiastic individual for our Borough-wide Targeted Team, where you'll find opportunities to make a real difference every day.

As a key player in the operational and strategic management of the Targeted Team caseload, you will support some of our community’s most vulnerable members. Your role involves assessing, planning, delivering, and evaluating holistic health interventions for children and young people facing various challenges, including:

• Navigating Child Protection plans
• Compassionately supporting Children In Need
• Advocating for Children Looked After to ensure their voices are heard
• Empowering young parents with complex health and social needs
• Addressing issues faced by children missing education or in alternative provision
• Facilitating coordinated interventions for vulnerable children

This role goes beyond a typical job; it’s an opportunity to collaborate with dedicated professionals and enact transformative support. We’re looking for a creative thinker who can bring fresh perspectives and work collaboratively to safeguard the health and welfare of our community’s youth.

If you're passionate about making a difference and ready for a challenge, we want to hear from you! Your impactful journey starts here.

Main duties of the job

Join Our Team as a Child & Family Targeted Nurse (CFTN)

Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of vulnerable children and families? As a Child & Family Targeted Nurse (CFTN), you'll be at the heart of safeguarding and supporting families in need, working collaboratively with a variety of agencies to ensure children’s safety and well-being.

In this vital role, you’ll take the lead in championing the development and implementation of safeguarding policies and procedures. You’ll support the delivery of clinical and safeguarding supervision for the team, ensuring the highest standards of care for every child.

Partnering with Specialist Public Health Nurses (Health Visitors and School Nurses), you'll help deliver the Healthy Child Programme, providing exceptional care to children and young people from birth to 19 years. Working within a dynamic, multidisciplinary team, you'll be part of a community dedicated to improving the health and future of Oldham's children.

This role offers flexibility, as you'll be based for administrative purposes at one location, but may be asked to work from various sites across Oldham, depending on the needs of the service. If you're ready to be a vital part of our integrated Children & Families Service, we want to hear from you.

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.  Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.