Vacancies

Community Staff Nurse in the School Nurse Team

Job Introduction

As a Community Staff Nurse in the School Nurse Team  we value you and your wellbeing, offering a range of benefits to help you feel supported and appreciated:

• Band 5 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• 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  
• 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

Job Introduction

The Community Staff Nurse in the School Nurse Team is a registered general nurse working as part of the public health nursing team in providing preventative and supportive health care to children, young people and their families.

The post holder works with a public health focus under the supervision of a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) with a defined population.

As part of the public health nursing team the post holder collaborates with a wider multi-disciplinary and inter-agency team in offering public health services to the community.

The work takes place in a variety of settings, including home, clinic and community venues.

Base

Our Healthy Family Teams support our Surrey-wide service, and you will be based at one of our Office Hubs across Surrey with the opportunity for hybrid working.   

HCRG Care Group is a flexible-first employer, whilst you will have an office base, our teams are agile and work in flexible/hybrid arrangements.  

Main Responsibilities

• Delivery of the healthy child programme at four levels as delegated by the Specialist Community Public Health School Nurse.
• Ability to recognise health needs for individual clients and situations in relation to the health of children, young people, individuals and families, sometimes in complex situations, identifying situations where referral for support from Public Health Specialist is necessary.
• Undertake health assessments in schools.
• Prepare for, attend and participate in relevant case conferences and inter-agency meetings as delegated by the Specialist Community Public Health nurse (SCPHN). Undertaking health needs assessments and care planning as appropriate.
• Support the SCPHN in providing specialist targeted support to meet the needs of children identified as at risk or with complex needs and ensure Partnership plus plan in place.
• Support the SCPHN to identify, prioritise and implement programmes of support in response to the public health needs of the school age population
• Undertake full assessment of individual public health needs and provide support or onward referral as appropriate. Specifically; sexual health, smoking and weight management
• Offer advice and support to children, young people and families in accordance with evidence based practice.

Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities

Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Registered Nurse
• Child Protection awareness.
• Knowledge of national and local policy in Children’s Service and Public Health.
• Experience of working with children and young people.
• Understanding of child and adolescent development.
• Ability to apply theory to practice.
• Knowledge and application of clinical governance.
• Excellent IT skills and able to use electronic client record such as SystmOne or Emis

Desirable

• Evidence of recent study at degree level
• Knowledge of Family planning and sexual health
• Understanding of the Healthy Schools

Other requirements: Full UK Driving Licence with a car insured for business use.

Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.

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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