Children and Young People’s Specialist Nurse
Care Perspectives Childrens Residential and School
Care Perspectives is seeking a compassionate, skilled and resilient Children and Young People’s Specialist Nurse to join our Therapeutic Team, working across our residential children’s homes and New Perspectives education provision.
Care Perspectives supports children and young people with complex emotional, developmental, behavioural, relational and health needs. Many of the children we care for have experienced trauma, disrupted attachments, adversity, placement breakdown, neurodevelopmental differences, self-harm, emotional dysregulation, school avoidance, disordered eating, risk-taking behaviours and difficulties trusting adult care.
This is a unique opportunity for a registered nurse to work across both therapeutic residential care and specialist education. The successful candidate will help ensure that children’s health and wellbeing needs are properly understood, planned for and supported within day-to-day care and learning.
The role will include health assessment, care planning, clinical advice, school nursing support, health promotion, medicines governance, staff training, safeguarding input, liaison with GPs/CAMHS/paediatrics and contribution to multi-agency planning.
This is not a traditional ward-based nursing role. It requires someone who can think systemically, work relationally, support staff teams and translate clinical knowledge into practical, compassionate and proportionate care.
We are looking for someone who:
- Is a registered nurse with current NMC registration.
- Has experience working with children and young people with complex needs.
- Understands trauma-informed, attachment-aware and therapeutic practice.
- Has strong safeguarding knowledge.
- Can support safe medicines management and health care planning.
- Can advise both residential and education staff.
- Understands how health, trauma, anxiety and neurodevelopmental needs can affect school attendance, engagement and learning.
- Is confident working across health, social care and education.
- Can remain calm, professional and compassionate in emotionally challenging situations.
- Can help teams respond to health and wellbeing needs in a safe, proportionate and child-centred way.
This is a rewarding role where your expertise will directly support vulnerable children and young people to feel safer, healthier, better understood and more able to engage in care and education.
Pay: Up to £32,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Store discount
Work Location: In person
