Band 6 SCPHN School Nurse

Package Description

As a SCPHN School Nurse, you will be part of our valued team in our Essex Child &Family Wellbeing Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• Band 6 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

Specialist Community Public Health Nurse is a registered 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 Healthy Family Team Leader 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, school and community venues.

Main Responsibilities

As a SCPHN School Nurse, you will be responsible for:

• Delivery of the healthy child programme at all four levels.
• Day to day operational line management and supervision of the School Staff Nurses and Support Staff.
• Day to day caseload management of work for School Staff Nurses and Support Staff – helping them to plan, prioritise, evaluate and delegating and allocating work as appropriate.
• Appropriate delegation of work to others in the multidisciplinary team
• Act as a mentor to pre-registration and post registration students as appropriate and be involved in organizing allocation of student nurses
• Participate in preceptorship of junior/new members of the team while acting as a mentor.
• To work in collaboration with health care and other service providers, including Head Teachers, to ensure seamless delivery of services for school age children.
• To confidently and competently work with vulnerable children and families, working collaboratively within the multi-agency framework to reduce risk and prevent harm.
• Attend safeguarding meetings as appropriate and then delegate ongoing work to the appropriate member of the skill mix team.
• Plan and organise the workload for themselves and the team and be responsive to fluctuations in workload and resources

Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities

The Ideal Candidate

• Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification
• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
• 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.
• Knowledge and application of clinical governance.
• Full driving license and daily access to a car

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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