Band 7 Family Nurse (Family Nurse Partnership)

NHS; Trowbridge; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a full-time Band 7 Family Nurse to join their Family Nurse Partnership team in Wiltshire. This role involves delivering a home visiting program to support vulnerable young women through pregnancy and the early years. Candidates should have a nursing or midwifery qualification and a commitment to working in community health environments.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Access to discounts and cashback offers

Well-being support programs

eLearning and professional development opportunities

Innovation funding for new ideas

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or Midwife with experience in community health.
• Strong interpersonal skills to build therapeutic relationships.
• Ability to conduct home visits and deliver health programs.

Responsibilities

• Recruit and engage eligible pregnant young women onto the FNP Programme.
• Deliver FNP programme materials in clients' homes.
• Work therapeutically to promote behaviour change.

Skills

Therapeutic communication

Understanding of health programs

Ability to work in complex family situations

Engagement with hard to reach populations

Education

Registered Nurse or Midwife qualification

Training in family health services

Job description

Band 7 Family Nurse (Family Nurse Partnership)

Are you a determined, dynamic and thoughtful Nurse or Midwife looking for an opportunity to join an organisation focused on professional growth and development?

We have an exciting opportunity for a full-time Band 7 Family Nurse to join our Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) Team in Wiltshire.

The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) Is a national evidence-based programme. The programme aims to improve antenatal health, child health and development and parents economic self -sufficiency in disadvantaged young families.

This role is responsible for delivering the FNP intensive, preventive home visiting programme and healthy child programme to vulnerable hard to reach young women who are expecting their first baby.

This is a demanding specialist role and post holders will undertake training to assist them develop high-level generalist and specialist skills to work within the clinical methods of the structured programme.

Family nurses will be expected to develop therapeutic relationships with clients and work intensively within complex family situations to achieve the expected outcomes of the programme.

We highly value our colleagues and their well-being and offer weekly supervision sessions to our nursing team.

The base for this role is to be agreed across Wiltshire - the role could be based in Salisbury or Trowbridge and can be discussed at interview stage.

Main duties of the job

• To recruit and engage eligible, hard to reach pregnant young women onto the FNP Programme.
• Participate in the delivery of the FNP programme and delivery of the healthy child programme.
• To use programme materials and methods in the clients homes in order to achieve the following:
  • Improve the outcomes of pregnancy.
  • Improve childrens health and development by enabling parents to provide more confident care.
  • Improve parental life course by helping parents plan future pregnancies,
  • Complete their education and find work.
• To work therapeutically with a range of family members to promote behaviour change and positive outcomes for children and their families.
• Take a lead professional role when required where children and young people with additional needs require an integrated package of support from more than one practitioner/service.
• To participate in reflective supervision, monitoring client engagement. To ensure that expertise in clinical are developed and maintained and the service offered is of high quality and the programme is implemented with fidelity.
• To ensure families become confident in accessing a range of other universal health and support services.

Please note: The complete job description for this role is currently under review by the FNP Online and will be shared ahead of interview for any successful applicants. Please apply according to the current job description provided, which is attached and has the job and person specification.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs 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.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were 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 doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Job responsibilities

As a Family Nurse, you'll be part of our valued team within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 7 salarywithNHS Pensionand fullAgenda for Changeterms and conditions
• Membership ofMy Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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 lifes 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 toeLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where youre 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 majorityof our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Person Specification

General Requirements

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.