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Band 7 Secondment opportunity currently 5 months (March 26)
2 Health and Wellbeing Coordinator posts, each being (0.5 WTE-18.5hrs)
1 working in Aberdeen City
1 working in Aberdeenshire
Alternative opportunity to combine posts to work 1 WTE (37hrs) across both areas
This is a unique and exciting opportunity to contribute to a pioneering approach to supporting children and young people who have experienced/ witnessed or are at risk of significant harm.
Following a successful bid for Scottish Government funding, NHSG are now seeking to appoint a Health and Wellbeing Coordinator to join each of our multi-agency pathfinder teams.
This initiative is known as Bairns Hoose. www.bairnshoosescotland.com
As the Health Coordinator, you will provide expertise as the single point of contact for a child and family, ensuring that the health and wellbeing needs of children and young people are actively considered as part of a holistic, multi-agency assessment. As the post holder, you will require substantial experience working with children and families in a child protection context alongside multi agency partners.
We are therefore seeking an experienced registered nurse with child protection experience and a commitment to improving outcomes for vulnerable children, young people and families.
Post holder bases for discussion. Bairns Hoose premises are in both Aberdeen city and Kemnay
For informal enquiries please contact
Jill Gibbon, Lead Nurse Child protection jillian.gibbon@nhs.scot
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES
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NHS Grampian forms one of the fourteen regional health boards of NHS Scotland and is responsible for providing health and social care services to a population of over 500,000 people living in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray.
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