Job Introduction
Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (specialist school nurses) work within Wiltshire Children’s Community Services to lead and deliver a high quality, pro-active service for children and the 5-19 Healthy Child Programme. The aim of the service is to reduce health inequalities, safeguard children and improve outcomes Base: One of three hubs based throughout Wiltshire
Main Responsibility
Key responsibilities
- 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.
Leadership and Communication skills
- To develop a specialty within own working practice and act as a resource and lead to other school nurses through project development and further training.
- To use evidence based practice to develop and maintain high quality and cost effective standards for Specialist Public Health Nurse/school nursing practice.
Professional responsibilities
- To adhere to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Professional Conduct and be conversant with NMC Advisory papers. To maintain professional registration.
- To participate in the professional supervision of team members (in conjunction with Managers and Team Leaders) to ensure that standards are maintained and poor performance is addressed through developmental action plans, which are monitored and evaluated.
- To maintain professional relationships within the Virgin Care and with other agencies.
- To work within Information Governance guidelines in the protection of data.
For a full list of responsibilities please see attached Job Description.
The Ideal Candidate
Essential
- Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification
- Current NMC registration on third part of the register
- 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.
- Car driver and use of car for work
- Ability to work with electronic health records and with IT systems
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 Community Public Health Nurse – School Nurse you’ll be part of our valued team at within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £37,338 - £44,962 Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- 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 ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a number 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.
