Family Nurse

Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent community health service provider in Peterborough is seeking an experienced Family Nurse to join their dynamic team. This role involves delivering the Family Nurse Partnership programme to vulnerable young families, requiring strong community nursing skills and a background in safeguarding children. The successful candidate will provide leadership within the team and work collaboratively with various services, focusing on improving health outcomes for families. A degree and NMC registration are essential, with a salary range of £47,810 to £54,710 annually.

Qualifications

• Significant community nursing/midwifery experience is required.
• Knowledge of current public health agenda, particularly the Healthy Child Programme.
• Sound knowledge and experience of safeguarding children.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the FNP intensive home visiting programme to vulnerable young women.
• Provide leadership expertise within the clinical methods of the structured programme.
• Work with families to promote behavior change and positive outcomes.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Teamwork

Strength-based Approach

Analytical Skills

Motivational Interviewing Techniques

Education

Degree level or equivalent experience

NMC Registered

Qualified Family Nurse

Specialist Community Public Health Nurse Qualification

Job description

Family Nurse

The closing date is 09 February 2026

Are you an experienced family nurse, registered nurse or midwife with significant experience of working in the community with vulnerable and complex families?

We are offering a 12-month secondment (30 hours per week) to be part of the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Family Nurse Partnership team!

We are looking for someone who is passionate about working alongside young parents to deliver this carefully designed programme, offering young parents a chance to transform their own life chances and those of their babies.

If you're passionate about working with young parents, are warm, reflective, flexible and motivated to work in a strength-based way to achieve the intended outcomes of the FNP programme, we would like to hear from you.

You must hold a first-level Degree and have significant community nursing/midwifery experience. You need to have knowledge of the current public health agenda, in particular the Healthy Child Programme, possess excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills.

Safeguarding Children is a fundamental role of this post and you will have sound knowledge and experience of safeguarding children, and meet the requirements of the person specification.

Successful applicants must be able to attend mandatory, residential training throughout the coming year at Yarnfield Conference Centre (first training session May 2026)

Should we receive a high number of applications we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 3 February 2026

Main duties of the job

The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a national evidence-based programme. The aim of the programme is to improve the antenatal health, child health and development and parent's economic self-sufficiency in disadvantaged young families. FNP is part of a wider Young Parent Pathway, and mentorship, training and supervision of others is an integral part of the Family Nurse role.

The role is responsible for delivering the FNP intensive, preventive home visiting programme to vulnerable, hard to reach young women who are expecting their first baby. The post holder will be required to develop high-level generalist and specialist skills to work within the clinical methods of the structured programme. Family Nurses will be expected to work flexibly and creatively to achieve the expected outcomes of the programme.

As a Family Nurse there is an expectation that you will provide leadership expertise within your locality and within the wider service and system and contribute to quality assurance and improvements.

Peterborough & Cambridgeshire is a large county and travel around the county is an expectation of this role.

Working with this client group may necessitate a degree of flexibility around working hours to meet the needs of the service users. Currently Children & Young People's Services cover core working hours of 8am-5.30pm, Mon-Fri. Service core hours may be changed in response to service user needs.

About us

Rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There's one reason why our services are outstanding - and that's amazing staff - who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.

Job responsibilities

This is a demanding specialist role requiring high levels of professional skills and practice and the ability to work as part of, and across teams. As a Family Nurse there is an expectation that you will provide leadership expertise within your locality and within the wider Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Children & Young Peoples Health Services.

To recruit and engage eligible, hard-to-reach pregnant young women to the FNP programme.

To use the programme materials and methods in the clients homes in order to achieve the following:

• Improve the outcomes of pregnancy
• Improve childrens health and development by enabling parents to provide more sensitive and competent care of them; and
• Improve parental life-course by helping parents plan future pregnancies, complete their education and find work.

To work therapeutically with a range of family members to promote behaviour change and positive outcomes for children and families.

To take a lead professional role when required where children and young people with additional needs require an integrated package of support from more than one practitioner/service.

To participate in continuous monitoring and engagement in reflective supervision, to ensure that expertise in clinical methods are developed and maintained, that the service offered is of high quality and the programme implemented with fidelity.

To work in collaboration with local statutory and mainstream services to ensure that families become confident in accessing a range of other universal health and support services and are ready to graduate from the programme when the child is two years old.

To be part of a 0-19 team, working within a locality leadership team to support Cambridgeshire Children & Young Peoples Health Service delivery of the Healthy Child Programme to the highest possible standard.

Qualifications & Training

• NMC registered
• Degree level or equivalent experience
• Qualified Family Nurse
• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse Qualification

Experience

• 2 years experience of working with families in deprived communities
• 2 years experience of midwifery, child health, public health, home visiting
• Experience of clinical supervision
• Experience of working with Young Parents
• Experience of safeguarding children
• Experience of working with young people
• Experience of delivering group supervision
• Experience of delivering the Family Nurse Partnership Programme
• Knowledge of the research base of FNP
• Experience of delivering safeguarding supervision to others

Knowledge & Skills

• Able to develop supportive, trusting and respectful relationships
• Able to work effectively in a team, supporting and championing others and challenging colleagues' views and attitudes when necessary
• Able to manage exposure to distressing life events and stressful complex situations
• Highly reflective and able to learn from experiences
• Willingness to prepare for and engage in and lead on clinical and managerial supervision, team learning and role play sessions
• Able to assess a situation, set priorities and problem solve quickly and effectively
• Able to communicate clearly and succinctly both verbally and in writing with exceptional analytical skills and ability to write Voice of the child statements
• Exceptional communication, facilitative and motivating skills
• Ability to be strengths based, positive and resilient
• Able to work effectively with diverse groups
• Computer skills to create reports, use clinical systems, access email, read excel spreadsheets etc. Able to analyse numerical data
• Knowledge of up to date National and local Safeguarding policies
• Able to evidence understanding of the theories underpinning FNP - Attachment theory, self-efficacy theory, human ecology theory,
• Demonstrate understanding of parent/infant mental health
• Experience of using motivational interviewing techniques
• Demonstrate understanding of complexities of behaviour change

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.

Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum, pro‑rata