Band 8a Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) Supervisor

NHS; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS seeks a Band 8a Family Nurse Partnership Supervisor to lead a dedicated team providing intensive home visiting programs for young parents. This role integrates clinical supervision with team management, focused on enhancing outcomes for families in need. The candidate will uphold safeguarding standards while driving service quality and improvement.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Discounts via My Reward Hub

Access to wages as earned

Career coaching and counselling

Continuing professional development opportunities

Innovation funding for new ideas

Mental and physical wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Must be registered with the NMC.
• At least 2 years experience in midwifery/child health.
• Knowledge of safeguarding policies.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of Family Nurses and oversee programme quality.
• Provide clinical supervision and drive service improvement.
• Maintain stakeholder relationships to enhance program outreach.

Skills

Communication

Motivational Interviewing

Team Management

Safeguarding

Reflective Practice

Education

Nursing or Midwifery Qualification

Degree Level Qualification

Job description

Band 8a Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) Supervisor

Information:

This job is now closed

Job summary

Wiltshire has a well-established Family Nurse Partnership service which has been supporting young first-time parents for the last 10 years, helping them and their children to have the best start in life. The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a preventative programme offered to first-time mothers aged 19 years and less than 28 weeks pregnant. Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a national evidence-based, intensive home visiting programme delivered by Family Nurses who are trained to use a trauma informed approach to develop therapeutic relationships with young clients and their children. The programme is voluntary and offers a personalised , flexible client centred approach.

We are looking for a new FNP Supervisor to lead and manage the work of the Family Nurses in our well established FNP team as well to continue to drive delivery of improved outcomes for first time young families in Wiltshire. The postholder will provide in-depth clinical and safeguarding supervision to the family nurses, maintaining the integrity of the programme, taking responsibility for the quality of programme replication according to the licence, overseeing recruitment and engagement of families, building local stakeholder relationships, and facilitating continual learning and service improvement.

Wiltshire base to be agreed.

Main duties of the job

Main responsibilities:

• Managing a team of family nurses (FNs) and the site Quality Support Officer.
• Taking responsibility for programme quality and adherence to the FNP licensing conditions.
• For facilitating continual learning and service improvement, planning for and ensuring a local learning programme for each FN, to meet their own identified learning needs and to facilitate the team-based elements of the FNP learning programme.
• Using programme materials and methods in the clients homes in order to achieve the following: a) improve the outcomes of pregnancy; b) improve childrens health and development by enabling parents to provide more sensitive, responsive and competent care of them; and c) improve parental life-course by helping parents plan future pregnancies, complete their education, and find work.
• Providing regular in-depth individual reflective and analytical supervision for the family nurses to ensure high standards of practice and safe delivery of the programme.
• Supporting a robust local system for supporting safeguarding within FNP with the safeguarding named nurses and the FNP lead, taking responsibility for safeguarding supervision of family nurses in partnership with named nurse/safeguarding team.
• Working with others to ensure engagement of local stakeholders and to ensure an effective pathway for identification of eligible pregnant young women who can be offered the programme.

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

The postholder will provide system leadership, driving and supporting innovative approaches to service delivery, and build on the opportunities of working closely with the Public Health Nurse led service and the Wiltshire family hubs. In addition, they will also hold a small caseload of families to whom they deliver the programme.

The successful candidate will be able to balance clinical practice with a team manager/ supervisory role, which requires a diverse set of skills and attributes as well as commitment to the ethos and principles of the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) programme.

For more information about the role or an informal discussion please contact Jude Sellers, Head of Operations, Children and Young People by email [e-mail] on07976751960.

The essentials required for this role:

• Nursing or midwifery qualifications and registered with the NMC
• Degree level or equivalent professional qualification
• Highly developed communication skills
• Understand the difference between advice giving and motivational approaches and have some knowledge of the research base of FNP
• Have knowledge of Parent/infant mental health
• Have experience of delivering supervision and different supervision models and team effectiveness strategies
• Have experience leading and managing a team/others
• Have at least 2 years experience of working with families in deprived communities and at least 2 years experience of midwifery, child health, public health, home visiting
• Have a developed understanding of National and local safeguarding policies, The Children Act and Assessment Framework, Working Together to Safeguard Children and recommendations of recent child protection reviews
• Able to support others to work within safeguarding policies and procedures
• Have a developed understanding of the principles of clinical governance
• Able to manage strong emotions, sensitive issues and undertake courageous conversations
• Able to develop supportive, trusting and respectful relationships
• Able to challenge colleagues views and attitudes when necessary
• Able to sensitively provide anticipatory guidance to parents and have experience of motivational Interviewing
• Able to manage exposure to distressing life events and stressful complex partnerships
• Highly reflective and able to learn from experiences
• Able to assess a situation, set priorities and problem solve quickly and effectively
• Able to communicate clearly and succinctly both verbally and in writing

As a Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) Supervisor, youll be part of our valued team within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 8a salary of £53,755 - £60,504with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Changeterms and conditions
• Membership of My 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 majority of 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.