Job Introduction
As a Band 6 SCPHN School Nurse within HCRG Care Group South West/Wiltshire you’ll join a team who are focused on clinical excellence you will lead and deliver a high quality, pro-active service for children and the 5-19 Healthy Child Programme, with the aim of reducing inequalities, safeguarding children and improving outcomes.
We currently have a vacancy for a fixed term 6 month contract (fulltime) all year round, SCPHN school nurse working in a skill mix team which covers Salisbury and surrounding areas.
Main Responsibility
Within this role, you will:
- Public health lead for the school nursing skill mixed team within the defined school community area, assessing health needs and identifying and implementing appropriate interventions utilising the skills of and delegating to the skill mix team in an outcome-focused context.
- To undertake population health needs assessment to identify local need and collaborate with key partners to address identified public health needs
- Develop and foster effective professional relationships and networks with schools and other key partners.
- Provide school age children/young people with a service that promotes their physical, mental, emotional health and wellbeing. This will include partnership working with their families, schools and other agencies.
- To promote health and wellbeing through drop in, health education sessions and signposting. Referring/introducing to partner agencies as required.
- To contribute to multi-agency early support assessment of children and young people and take on lead professional role where appropriate.
- To manage an identified caseload comprising of secondary and primary schools
- Understanding the concept of clinical governance and safeguarding. Using this knowledge and skills to identify, assess and safeguard vulnerable children and families.
- Exhibiting excellence in and role modelling the standards for Specialist Community Public Health Nursing practice for the supervision of learners and colleagues.
- Developing the school nursing service in the defined locality through proactive leadership and innovative practice to meet health needs.
- Working flexibly across organisational boundaries to contribute towards the identification of population health needs in line with Virgin Care’s policies and priorities.
The Ideal Candidate
Essential
- You will have a SCPHN School Nurse qualification as well as being a Registered General Nurse
- Experience in leading and working in school nursing teams
- Experience in leading interventions to improve outcomes and safeguard children and young people
- Qualification in practice supervising/assessing for nurse learners
- Working knowledge of the tools and progammes used in school nursing to improve outcomes for children.
- Have a full UK driving license with access to a car.
- 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
Desirable
- Qualification in leadership and innovative practice
- Experience in line management and developing teams
- Experience of presenting policy and outcomes to commissioners and partners
- Experience of goal setting and managing interventions to meet outcomes.
- Experience in leading complex health needs requiring safeguarding and multiagency processes
Package Description
As a Specialist School Nurse (SCPHN registered), you’ll be part of our valued team at Wiltshire
You will feel valued as Specialist School Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £33,706 - £40,588 Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea and coffee 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 ringfenced innovation funding each year
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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