Band 5 School Nurse

HCRG Care Group; Heybridge; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

HCRG Care Group in Essex is seeking a dedicated School Nurse to join the Essex Child & Family Wellbeing Service. You will work within a multidisciplinary Healthy Family Team to deliver the Healthy Child Programme and provide family-focused care in communities across Essex.

You will lead and mentor colleagues and support pre-registration students with our Practice Education Team. A Nursing or Midwifery qualification and NMC registration are essential; IT proficiency and a UK driving licence are

Qualifications

• NMC registered and eligible to practise as a School Nurse.
• Qualified nurse or midwife with SCPHN training available after 1 year.
• Confident using IT systems and Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel).
• Valid UK driving licence with access to a car for work.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the Healthy Child Programme with assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of care.
• Provide universal School Nursing services to support child development and health from school transition to age 19 (25 for SEND).
• Offer leadership and mentorship to colleagues and demonstrate high standards of care.
• Mentor pre-registration students and provide preceptorship for new staff.
• Support by Practice Education team with SCPHN training after one year and safeguarding supervision.
• Work across community settings in Essex, including homes, schools and Family Hubs.

Skills

IT literacy

Microsoft Office

Education

Nursing or Midwifery qualification

NMC Registered

SCPHN training available

Tools

Microsoft Office

Outlook

Word

Excel

Job description

• 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 On behalf of the NHS, Essex County Council and WECCG, HCRG Care Group and Barnardo's are commissioned to provide a range of children, young people and family services throughout Essex that are free at the point of delivery. The service, known as the Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service, focusses on ensuring that everyone in Essex has the best possible start in life through meeting the identified needs of children, young people and their families. Our services are offered across Essex from the Antenatal period up until a young person turns 19 or 25 for those with Special Educational Needs. We are located within the community delivering outcome based support to families within their homes, schools or at one of our Family Hubs and Delivery Sites. We are striving to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for children and families in the community, for the community, with the community. www.essexfamilywellbeing.co.uk As a School Nurse within the Essex Child & Family Wellbeing Service you'll join a team who are focused on clinical excellence and who recently received a "Good" CQC rating.

Main Responsibility

• There is a Healthy Family Team located within every District of Essex and is made up of a Multi-disciplinary team, including Health Visitors, School Nurses, Family Wellbeing Nurses and additional colleagues who work together to provide family support.
• As a School Nurse, you will work alongside SCPHN School Nurses and be responsible for the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, including assessment of health needs, development, implementation, and evaluation of packages of care.
• You will work as a team to offer every family a universal School Nursing services to support aspects of a child/Young person's development and health from Transition into School up to the age of 19 (25 for SEND).
• You will provide leadership and act as positive role model by supporting colleagues and demonstrating excellent standards of care.
• You will undertake mentorship responsibilities for pre-registration students whilst on placement within the service and provide preceptorship to support new staff members.
• You will be supported to do this by our Practice Education team. SCPHN training is available after 1 year in post. Regular safeguarding supervision will be provided along with opportunities for continued professional development.
  You will have a Nursing or Midwifery qualification and experience of working with children and young people, along with a passion and drive to help ensure that children have the best possible start in life.
• You will be NMC Registered
• A comprehensive induction programme is provided by our dedicated Practice Education Team. Applications from newly qualified Nurses looking to start their career in a community setting will be considered.
• You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
• You will have a valid UK driving licence and have access to a car for work use
  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. 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.