Job Introduction
Are you a reflective, motivated, and dynamic registered nurse who is looking for an opportunity to work with children and families in the community?
If so, we have an exciting opportunity for a Children’s Nurse to join the Health Visiting Team who are focused on improving the health and wellbeing of local children.
As a Children’s Nurse you will provide preventative and supportive health care to children and families in Wiltshire. This includes the identification, monitoring and provision of targeted support to vulnerable children and those whose welfare and safety may be at risk. The post holder will work as a member of the Health Visiting Team maintaining a public health focus under the supervision of a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) to deliver the Healthy Programme in a variety of settings including the home and community venues as delegated by the Health Visitor.
There are full time & part time opportunities available working 22.5 - 37.5 hours across the week based in our Derby Court Central Team in Wiltshire who cover the Trowbridge and Bradford on Avon areas.
If you would like to discuss the role further, contact Jane Arundell via email: jane.arundell@hcrgcaregroup.com or Jeannie Lewis via jeannie.lewis@hcrgcaregroup.com
Main Responsibility
Within this role, you will:
- Work in partnership with children and families to identify any health needs at the earliest opportunity and to provide appropriate support to achieve positive outcomes
- Support Infant feeding and parent infant relationships
- Work with families where they are identified as requiring early help and where an Early Support Assessment is in place or reach the threshold of Child in Need
- Undertake work as allocated by the SCPHN Health Visitor, including support to families on a Child Protection Plan.
- Undertake Looked After Child Assessments as required and offer ongoing support to allocated families under the direct supervision of the SCPHN Health Visitor
Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.
The Ideal Candidate
Our ideal candidate will be a registered nurse, midwife or mental health nurse with a minimum of 6 months post-graduate experience and have a caring and approachable demeanour in order to gain the trust and respect of local families and children.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
Package Description
You will feel valued as a Band 5 Staff Nurse in the Health Visiting Team with HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £28,407 - £34,581 and Agenda for Change terms and conditions – including an NHS pension
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ring fenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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