Community Staff Nurse - School Health Team

North West Borough Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Sefton

On-site

GBP 35,000 - 45,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a compassionate nurse to join the School Nursing team. The post delivers the Healthy Child Programme to school-age children and works with families, schools and partner agencies to promote health and reduce inequalities across our communities.

You will be a registered nurse (NMC) with first level registration, provide safeguarding support, and contribute to supervision and service development to ensure safe, effective and equitable care for children

Qualifications

Current NMC Registration, first level nurse.
Experience in school health, safeguarding and public health preferred.
Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

Responsibilities

Lead communications for several schools under the guidance of the Named SCPHN.
Contribute to a high-quality school health service.
Work collaboratively with primary and community care to meet health objectives.
Assist workload planning and delegation within the team.
Support multi-agency partnerships for public health objectives.
Provide supervision and induction support to staff and students.

Skills

NMC Registration

Professional development

Assessment & care planning

Public health awareness

Health promotion

Safeguarding children

Communication skills

Teamwork

Travel

Job description

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

Job overview

We are looking for compassionate and dedicated nurse's to join our school health team.

The role will require you to have excellent communication skills, IT skills, organisational and clinical skills when supporting and working with children, young people, parents, professionals and multi-agencies.

The aim of this role is to deliver the Healthy Child Programme to the school age population within Sefton, ensuring we share the best public health information and Interventions.

You will also have responsibility for a safeguarding caseload, which exposes staff to complex public health issues.

A thorough preceptorship/induction programme will be offered to successful applicants, which will include regular supervision and safeguarding support.

Main duties of the job

The Children's service provides support to children, young people and their families within a progressive universal model of service delivery dependent on assessed need.

The service offers every child/family a programme of screening, developmental reviews and information and guidance to support parenting and healthy choices as defined by The Healthy Child Programme 0 - 19 years (DH, 2023).

The Community Staff Nurse will work predominantly as part of the School Nursing team to promote and improve health and well-being of school aged children and young people to reduce health inequalities.

The post holder will support the delivery of the Healthy Child Program 5-19 - up to age 25 for SEN children/young people within the team using evidence based practice and the Framework for Assessment (DH 2002).

The post holder will work in collaboration with partner agencies both voluntary and statutory to achieve good health outcomes for children and their families.

The post holder may have responsibility for allocated schools as the named health professional, and will work as part of the SCPHN team with delegated responsibility for the assessment of care needs, implementation and evaluation of program of care for children, young people and families.

Working for our organisation

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Be the lead person for communication for several schools /education establishments under the guidance of the Named SCPHN and be responsible for the development of cooperative working arrangements within the school and the extended services that support healthy outcomes for children

Contribute to the provision of a high-quality school health service.

Work collaboratively within the team and with primary and community care colleaguesto deliver local and national health objectives

Work with the SCPHN to undertake workload planning and delegation of work to otherteam members, considering competence levels

Identify needs and prioritize own work appropriately to manage the delivery of the service.

Support the SCPHN and team leaders to develop new ways of working to provide a responsive service to children and young people

Support the SCPHN to develop multi-agency partnerships and joint working to facilitate public health objectives in line with the MERSEY CARE objectives

Work within a public health competency framework to address public health priorities and health inequalities

Participate in the mentorship and assessment of a range of students and in the preceptorship and support of new colleagues

In conjunction with the SCPHN provide day- to- day supervision and support for thesupport staff and students within the team

Support the team leader in providing induction to the local working environment, School Health Service and MERSEY CARE policies for new team members and students

Establish and maintain a good working relationship with primary and community care colleagues and other service providers, e.g., education, working collaboratively provide a comprehensive service to children and young people.

Agree and contribute to setting team objectives and delivering agreed outcomes

Complete statistical returns as required by MERSEY CARE including entering data onto computerised systems within the required timeframes

Provide workload and caseload information as requested by the team leader/Caseload Holder.

Attend and actively participate in team, locality and other relevant meetings

Support the caseload holders in the implementation of practice development, improvement and service modernisation initiatives

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Current NMC Registration, first level nurse

Skills

Essential criteria

Actively involved in professional development
Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating individualised programmes of care.
Understanding of local and national influences on health care delivery
Awareness of current trends in School Health practice
Awareness of local and national Public Health agendas
Awareness of Health Promotion and Education
Knowledge of Safeguarding Childrens issues
Excellent communication skills
Understanding of skills required for team working
Ability to travel, for work purposes, within the Trust area

Desirable criteria