EOTAS School Nurse

NHS; London; Hybrid; GBP 51,000 - 59,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking an SCPHN qualified school nurse to deliver the Healthy Child Programme in London. The role involves working with vulnerable children, conducting health assessments, and ensuring access to important health services. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in community health, a passion for supporting youth, and relevant qualifications. This part-time position offers flexible working options and the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of young people.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years as a SCPHN in a community setting.
• Experience managing own caseload and supervising.
• NMC registration and relevant qualifications required.

Responsibilities

• Deliver health assessments and interventions for vulnerable children.
• Work collaboratively with NEET and BACME services.
• Facilitate health education and training programs for vulnerable groups.

Skills

Community health management

Health assessments

Safeguarding

Collaboration with agencies

Education

Registered Nurse or Midwife

Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification

Job description

Areyou a SCPHN qualified school nurse with 2 years clinical experience as a schoolnurse aspiring to take on a challenge and work with vulnerable children andyoung people in the borough of Waltham Forest?

TheEducation Other Than at School (EOTAS) nurse delivers the Healthy ChildProgramme in alternative provisions, colleges, Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) andYouth Offending Service. The post older will be expected to deliver keymandated checks and undertake health assessments, health promotion, managehealth conditions in school and engage in safeguarding processes andprocedures.

You will hold a clinical caseload for this cohort to support theachievement of a continuum of education provision for pupils with complexsocial, emotional, communication and behavioural difficulties working inpartnership with key agencies. These young people will have a variety of needsthat may impact on their overall health and development.

You will work collaboratively withthe NEET programme (Not in Education, Employment or Training) and Behaviour andChild Missing in Education (BACME) services in supporting young people tooptimise uptake and access of services that will support their management ofhealth and well-being.

This is a part time role - hours are 22.5 per week.

Main duties of the job

• To meet the health needs of a defined client group.
• To be the main health representative for a defined client group of young people, in assessing and meeting their identified health needs through an ongoing programme of health surveillance, intervention, monitoring, and referral.
• To lead on and co-ordinate community-based specialist clinics within defined area/s of practice e.g. Audiology, Enuresis, Sexual Health, Complex care management.
• To attend relevant panels pertaining to individual young people within the caseload or to represent a colleague/s as appropriate within the Child and Family Health Team.
• To be a Health lead in the facilitation of health plans for individual young people accessing the EOTAS programme. To support this process there will be positive relationships Youth Services/Home Schooled and other specialist areas to enhance social inclusion in all plans.
• To contribute to the curriculum planning and provision of health education programmes for these vulnerable children and young people, in the most appropriate setting.

About us

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.

Read up more about Tower Hamlets GP Care Group, click here: https://www.gpcaregroup.org/

The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.

Click here to know more about Tower Hamlets Together partnership- https://www.towerhamletstogether.com/

The key priorities for the Care Group are:

Innovation and support for primary care

Being a great place to work

Integrating primary and community care

Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people

Influencing improvements in health outcomes

Job responsibilities

• To facilitate good working relationships with all statutory and voluntary sector partners to meet the needs, in particular PRUs, Schools, Education Department, Youth Offending, Not in Employment, Education, training (NEET) services, Youth access (Health spot), Child and Family Health Team, Social Services, Voluntary and Statutory agencies.
• To work as part of the School Health and well-being team/service but in partnership with key stakeholders to ensure access and delivery to a marginalised population of young people to enable optimisation of health outcomes via improved access to services, assessment of needs and integrated planning of holistic care/support, particularly re access, assessment, supporting delivery of risk taking behaviour support e.g. Sexual Health promotion/advice/contraception/pregnancy support, mental health /emotional well-being /resilience and promotion,
• Key partner in Co-Production and Co-delivery of services, engaging actively with Young people in canvassing service views for delivery and evaluation.
• To provide teaching and training as part of GPCG an update programme to mainstream child and family health team0-19/Partnership staff, regarding issues pertaining to this vulnerable group of young people.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.

Person Specification

Experience

• Significant Experience of post qualification Relevant experience of working in a community setting-Minimum 2 years as a SCPHN.

Experience

• Experience of managing own caseload, supervising others and delivery training and education programmes.

Experience

• Experience of working across organisational boundaries within Health/Social.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse, Children's Nurse, Midwife, or Mental Health Nurse with current NMC registration and Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification.

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.

£51,883 to £58,544 a yearpro rata (including Outer HCAS)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time,Flexible working,Home or remote working