Consultant Public Health Nurse

CROYDON HEALTH SERVICES NHS TRUST; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health organization in the City of London seeks a Public Health Nurse Consultant. This role involves providing expert clinical leadership and collaborating with agencies to enhance health outcomes for children and families. The ideal candidate will demonstrate leadership in public health nursing and work effectively within multidisciplinary teams. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in the community.

Qualifications

• Evidence of experience in public health nursing and leadership within the 0-to-19 population.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.
• Must implement evidence-based interventions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with partner agencies to identify population health needs.
• Lead Health Visitors and School Nurses as autonomous practitioners.
• Work with management to develop services for children and families.

Skills

Experience in public health nursing

Leadership skills

Ability to collaborate across teams

Implementation of evidence-based interventions

Job description

Overview

A unique and exciting opportunity for a 0 to 19 Public Health Nurse Consultant is available in Croydon Health Services NHS Trust. The role will be underpinned by four pillars providing expert clinical leadership, education, and research to improve outcomes for babies, children, young people and their families living in Croydon.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with partner agencies across the system and with the Croydon Public Health Consultant to identify population health needs and reduce health inequalities.
• Lead and support Health Visitors and School Nurses to realise their full potential as autonomous practitioners.
• Work closely with the Deputy Director of Nursing and the 0 to 19 public health nursing senior management team to develop a responsive service for children, young people, and families of Croydon.

Functions

• Expert practice function: Deliver high quality care, enable other practitioners to maintain professional expertise, and be able to exercise a high degree of personal autonomy within their role.
• Professional leadership and consultancy function: Demonstrate leadership skills which will support and motivate others, in order to continuously improve the quality of care and standards of practice.
• They should be a source of expertise and knowledge for others.
• Practice, service development, research and evaluation function: Contribute to the development of professional practice, through the promotion of evidence-based practice and audit of standards of care. They should have a role in the research and evaluation of practice. The postholder will also manage and deliver specific programmes including the financial and staffing resources management for those programmes, leading change processes with clinical staff to improve quality and change established practices using developing/conflicting highly complex evidence basis to drive changes.
• Education, training and development function: Contribute to the training and education of others, establishing formal links with education providers. They should contribute to the development of qualified staff in their specialist field.

Qualifications

Not specified in the posting, but applicants should have evidence of experience in public health nursing and leadership within the 0‑to‑19 population. Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams and implement evidence‑based interventions.