Job Introduction
Are you a Registered Nurse or Midwife looking to make a lasting difference to the health and wellbeing of children and young people? We're looking for a Staff Nurse to join our School Aged Health Service in Wiltshire, working as part of a skilled public health team that supports children, young people and families across the community. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your public health nursing experience whilst helping to reduce health inequalities, safeguard vulnerable children and improve outcomes for local families.
Working closely with School Nurses, education providers and partner agencies, you'll play a key role in assessing health needs, supporting vulnerable children and promoting healthy lifestyles across a diverse caseload. If you're passionate about prevention, early intervention and delivering child-centred care in the community, we'd love to hear from you.
Package Description
As well as a competitive salary, you'll have access to a fantastic range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing.
- Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme
- Access to My Reward Hub, providing discounts and cashback from high street retailers
- Access to earned pay before payday
- Wellbeing support and employee assistance services
- Learning and development opportunities through our Learning Enterprise
- Opportunities to influence and improve services through innovation and quality improvement initiatives
Main Responsibilities
Supporting Children, Young People and Families
You'll work as part of the School Aged Health Service, providing support to children, young people and their families within community settings. Working alongside School Nurses and wider partners, you'll help identify health needs, promote wellbeing and contribute to improving outcomes for local communities.
Assessment and Public Health
You'll assess children's health and development, identifying any concerns or deviations from expected development whilst ensuring safeguarding principles remain at the centre of your practice. Through health promotion activities, drop-in sessions and health education programmes, you'll encourage healthier lifestyles and improve awareness of available services and support.
Safeguarding and Multi-Agency Working
A key part of the role will involve supporting vulnerable children and young people through collaborative working with schools, families and partner agencies. You'll contribute to safeguarding processes, attend relevant meetings and support the planning and delivery of interventions under the guidance of a School Nurse.
Delivering Quality Care
You'll support children and young people with chronic and complex health needs, maintain accurate clinical records and work in accordance with the NMC Code. You'll also contribute to the development of the service and support student nurses through supervision and assessment activities.
Person Specification
Essential
- Registered Nurse or Midwife with current NMC registration
- Evidence of post-registration education
- Practice Assessor/Supervisor qualification or willingness to undertake
- Post-registration experience
- Experience of working independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Understanding of the public health role of School Nursing
- Ability to maintain accurate and contemporaneous clinical records
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- IT literate
- Ability to make sound clinical judgements and decisions
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Full driving licence
- Access to a vehicle for work purposes
Desirable
- Experience of inter-agency and partnership working
- Experience of working with children and young people in a community setting
- Knowledge of child protection procedures
- Experience within public health services
- Experience within a School Nursing team
- Experience facilitating group sessions
- Experience delivering one-to-one emotional health interventions
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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