Community Nursery Nurse - 0-19 Service Tower Hamlets

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job description

Community Nursery Nurse - 0-19 Service Tower Hamlets

We have a wonderful and exciting opportunity in our 0-5 Universal Health team. We have 2 Fixed Term (Full Time) Community Nursery Nurse vacancies in Tower Hamlets. We are looking for people to join our progressive, innovative 0-5 service, and enhance their career by developing knowledge and skills about children and young people and families within community settings.

Come and join our friendly, welcoming, and inclusive 0-5 team and share our ambition to make a fundamental difference in improving the health and wellbeing of children and their families in Tower Hamlets.

Working across the 0-5 service, our Community Nursery Nurses will require a positive attitude towards actively engaging with a diverse range of clients in our community. You will undertake child health development reviews, contribute to individual and group health promotion activities, undertake children's health reviews within the schools, and assist the Health Visitors in facilitating the Healthy Child Clinics. You will work closely with the Health Visitors to assess a family's care needs and provide specific interventions with individual children according to care plans drawn up by the Health Visitor and in conjunction with the parents. You will support children and families within their homes and in children and family centres.

If you are passionate about improving health outcomes for children, young people, and families, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The Community Nursery Nurses within the 0-5 Service Health Visiting are responsible for the delivery of a range of programmes that support the outcomes identified with the Health Child Programme. This will include the delivery of child health promotion, 1-year development reviews, 2-year development reviews, and supporting child health clinics mainly within Children's Centres and primary school settings.

These are exciting times where you will be part of a drive to provide innovative, high-quality, responsive, and accessible health services working together as part of Tower Hamlets Together (THT) to offer families access to integrated care including health, social care, and voluntary community services.

Job responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities of this role include:

• Manage, plan and implement the delivery of the NCMP, vision and hearing screening for identified cohort of schools in a timely manner to ensure compliance with national screening timeframe.
• Support the delivery of child health clinics.
• Undertake delegated developmental reviews and report back to Health Visitor/School Nurse.
• Make an assessment of each child's health in the cohort of school children in the designated primary schools, according to service guidelines and with support and advice from the School Nurse using Parent/carer questionnaires, teacher questionnaires, and Health Visiting records.
• Review Health Visiting records of cohorts of primary school children and refer concerns to the School Nurse.
• Review questionnaires from parents/carers and check consent for child health screening tests. Refer concerns to School Nurse.
• Review questionnaires from class teachers regarding health of school children in designated primary schools and refer concerns to the School Nurse.
• Carry out delegated health assessments including interviews and report any concerns to the Health Visitor/School Nurse.
• Carry out delegated health screening of school children in primary schools in accordance with organisational policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Identify and refer to the Health Visitor/School Nurse any concerns arising from screening procedures or highlighted by parents or school staff.
• Make referrals to other professionals as agreed and delegated by the Health Visitor/School Nurse.
• Work with specific children and families in the home, school, or clinic setting according to their individual care plan as agreed with the Health Visitor, School Nurse, or Team Leader. This will include children with special health needs, in order to promote inclusion working in collaboration with other health professionals, early years staff, school staff, and parents.
• Undertake follow-up of children who have attended Accident and Emergency, as delegated by the Health Visitor/School Nurse. Receiving notifications, agreeing appropriate action with the Health Visitor/School Nurse, making contact with parents either at home or in the school, and reporting back to the Health Visitor/School Nurse. Advise on accident prevention.
• In collaboration with the School Nurse and school education staff, provide group health promotion sessions to children and/or their parents in areas such as play, accident prevention, dental health, exercise, personal hygiene, healthy eating, and positive parenting.
• Assist the Integrated 0-19 Team members in planning, organising, and delivery of health promotion sessions and displays. This may include participation in school parents' evenings.
• Have an awareness of identification of vulnerable children who may be subject to abuse and follow the organisations' Safeguarding policy and procedures, referring any concerns to the Health Visitor/School Nurse.
• Support students within the work environment to gain an understanding of the Nursery Nurse's role within the Integrated 0-19 Service.
• Be actively involved with the ongoing development of the Service to ensure excellent quality of care is provided to all children, young people, and their families within the borough of Tower Hamlets.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of being a team player and able to support others to meet the requirements of their role.

Qualifications

• NNEB or Diploma in Childcare & Education (CDE) awarded by CACHE or NHC in Childcare & Education (Scotland)/Level 3 BTEC National Diploma in Early Years (DEXCEL).

Skills and Abilities

• A sound understanding of child development, parenting, and proficiency in using word and clinical IT system EMIS, Rio.
• Able to work under delegation from the Health Visitor/School Nurse and report concerns back appropriately.
• Effectively uses specialist knowledge and communication skills to initiate and sustain open and honest interactions, recognising the individual and collective needs of clients and other professional agencies.

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.

£31,944 to £34,937 a year including Inner HCAS

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working