Job Introduction
The Family Nurse Partnership Team – Part time Band 7 Family Nurse based at Kempthorne House, Bath
Are you a determined, dynamic and thoughtful registered nurse looking for an opportunity to join an organisation focused on professional growth and development?
The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) Team in Bath have a vacancy for a part-time band 7 family nurse.
The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) Is a national evidence-based programme. The programme aims to improve antenatal health, child health and development and parents’ economic self -sufficiency in disadvantaged young families.
This role is responsible for delivering the FNP intensive, preventive home visiting programme and healthy child programme to vulnerable hard to reach young women who are expecting their first baby.
This is a demanding specialist role and post holders will undertake training to assist them develop high-level generalist and specialist skills to work within the clinical methods of the structured programme.
Family nurses will be expected to develop therapeutic relationships with clients and work intensively within complex family situations to achieve the expected outcomes of the programme.
We highly value our colleagues and their well-being and offer weekly supervision session to our nursing team.
Interview date: Monday 4th December
Training dates for this role: 25th January and 5th - 9th February residential
Main Responsibility
- To recruit and engage eligible, hard to reach pregnant young women onto the FNP Programme.
- Participate in the delivery of the FNP programme and delivery of the healthy child programme.
- To use programme materials and methods in the clients ‘homes in order to achieve the following:
- Improve the outcomes of pregnancy.
- Improve children’s health and development by enabling parents to provide more confident care.
- Improve parental life course by helping parents plan future pregnancies,
- Complete their education and find work.
- To work therapeutically with a range of family members to promote behaviour change and positive outcomes for children and their families.
- Take a lead professional role when required where children and young people with additional needs require an integrated package of support from more than one practitioner/service.
- To participate in reflective supervision, monitoring client engagement. To ensure that expertise in clinical are developed and maintained and the service offered is of high quality and the programme is implemented with fidelity.
- To ensure families become confident in accessing a range of other universal health and support services.
The Ideal Candidate
The essentials needed for this role:
- You must be a Registered Nurse active on the NMC register and educated to a minimum of degree level.
- You must have two years’ experience of working in the community with hard-to-reach families.
- You must hold a valid UK driver’s license.
- A willingness to learn, take on additional training and travel across localities
- An ability to work independently and as part of a team
If you would like to discuss this role further, please contact the FNP Supervisor Jacqueline Hewitt on Tel: 07967836830 or Email: Jacqueline.Hewitt@hcrgcaregroup.com
Package Description
As a Family Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £43,742 - £50,056 (Band 7 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the 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. Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website\'s privacy policy.