FNP Supervisor

Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Warrington; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare organization in Warrington seeks a Family Nurse Supervisor to lead a team of Family Nurses. The role involves ensuring program quality, providing clinical supervision, and building partnerships to improve outcomes for young families. Candidates should have nursing qualifications and experience in leading teams.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Registered with the NMC.
• Experience in leading a team.
• Knowledge of safeguarding policies.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Family Nurses and a Quality Support Officer.
• Ensure programme quality and fidelity to FNP licensing requirements.
• Build relationships with community partners.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Interpersonal Skills

Motivational Interviewing

Analytical Skills

Education

Nursing or midwifery qualifications

Degree level or equivalent professional qualification

Job description

Go back Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

FNP Supervisor

The closing date is 24 October 2025

BridgewaterFamily Nurse Partnership is offering an exciting opportunity for a Family NurseSupervisor to join our dedicated team, supporting family nurses across Haltonand Warrington and strengthening partnership working across both boroughs

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 parentseconomic self-sufficiency in disadvantaged young families.

The post holder is responsible for leading and managing the work of the family nurses and Quality SupportOfficer. This includes providing in-depth clinical and safeguarding supervision to the family nurses, maintaining the integrity of the programme, taking responsibility for the quality of programme replication according to the licence, overseeing recruitment and engagement of hard-to-reach families, building local stakeholder relationships and facilitating continual learning and service improvement. In addition, they will also hold a small caseload of families to whom they deliver the programme.

This is a demanding role combining clinical practice with a team leader and supervisory role, which requires a diverse set of skills and attributes as well as commitment to the ethos and principles of the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) programme

Please note, interviews will be held on 27th October.

Main duties of the job

Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) Supervisor Were seeking a motivated professional to be the family nurse supervisor to lead a team of Family Nurses and a Quality Support Officer. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring programme quality, fidelity to FNP licensing requirements, and the delivery of safe, effective, and reflective practice.

You will:

Provide leadership, supervision, and professional development to Family Nurses, supporting continual learning and service improvement.

Oversee safeguarding processes within FNP and work collaboratively with named nurses and the FNP lead.

Build strong relationships with health, social care, and community partners to promote FNP and engage eligible young parents.

Support the recruitment of hard-to-reach pregnant young women and contribute to sustainability planning for the local FNP service.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to young families by improving outcomes in pregnancy, early childhood development, and parental life chances.

About us

Flexible working will be considered for all roles.

Unfortunately, we do not hold a sponsor licence for working Visas.

At Bridgewater, our PEOPLE values shape how we deliver our NHS services in your local community.

They help us deliver our mission to improve local health and promote wellbeing in the communities we serve.

After all, values are about people and they were created in partnership with our staff to reflect what they felt was important to them

Here at Bridgewater our shared values flow through the organisation.

P- Person-centred-We are passionate about individual needs and promote independence in the healthcare we provide.

E- Empowered- We empower our people and encourage new ideas to deliver and create improvements in community care.

O- Open and Honest - We behave in a way that develops relationships based on trust, openness, honesty and respect.

P- Professional-We support our people, so everyone has the right skills and training to deliver outstanding patient care.

L- Locally Lead - We are always learning about our communities and show great pride in being a local provider of health and care.

E- Efficient - We use our resources wisely to provide sustainable and value for money healthcare for our patients.

Job responsibilities

The FNP Supervisor will:

1. Undertake home visits in accordance with FNP model.

2. Use high level interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive information. Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour changes strategies.

3. Utilise specialist knowledge acquired through the FNP learning programme, events and other study, together with reflections on experience, to deliver the FNP programme effectively.

4. Work effectively in potentially highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g. safeguarding children or family breakdown.

5. Develop therapeutic relationships, requiring in-depth mental attention and concentration for extended periods, and promote adaptive behaviour change in the family home and other environments.

6. Use the six FNP domains as a framework for programme delivery.

7. Use professional and clinical judgement to undertake detailed assessments of clients and their families and analyse complex family situations to develop appropriate clinical interventions.

8. Actively engage and work with fathers and other members of the extended family to achieve positive outcomes for children.

9. Apply knowledge and skills to a range of clinical and family situations.

10. Work within the FNP model to initiate, plan and coordinate clients care in consultation and collaboration with other professionals and agencies involved in providing services to women and their families. This includes initiating CAF and taking the lead professional role where required.

11. At all times keep the safety of the baby and the young person in mind, and work within local safeguarding policies as appropriate.

12. Act on own interpretation of assessed clinical situation within the home setting. Able to refer client onto other specialist services as required on own authority.

13. Contribute to the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme (HCP), including professional assessments of childrens growth, development and language skills.

14. Positively and effectively represent the vision and principles of the FNP programme in actions and communications to internal and external clients, stakeholders and services.

Team Leadership and Supervision

1. Develop a culture of trust, support and growth reflecting FNP principles and ethos.

2. Receive information on eligible prospective clients, assign client caseload and monitor the family nurses workload.

3. Promote the integration of theories, principles and methods integral to the programme into family nurses practice and support them to analyse complex problems and case situations, agreeing plans as required.

4. Manage organisational structures and processes so that family nurses are able to stay focused on clients, infants and families.

5. Provide weekly, individual clinical and safeguarding supervision for family nurses.

6. Give in depth attention to family nurses in supervision where they may be emotionally challenged and distressed by their work with families.

7. Facilitate two weekly case review meetings; ensure good use of the psychological consultancy to the team and inviting local experts to contribute when necessary.

8. Monitor the delivery of individualised client care across the six domains of the programme through joint visits with family nurses.

9. Prioritise work and manage time effectively utilising skills, knowledge and competencies.

10. Provide guidance on the interpretation of principles and policies to family nurses and Quality Support Officer.

Person Specification

Experience

• Leading a team
• Supervision of other practitioners
• Relevant experience of working with families in deprived communities
• Relevant experience of midwifery, child health, public health, home visiting
• Managing others
• Experience of working with young people
• Project management

Job Specific Requirements

• Able to manage strong emotions, sensitive issues and undertake courageous conversations
• Able to develop supportive, trusting and respectful relationships
• Able to challenge colleagues views and attitudes when necessary
• Able to sensitively provide anticipatory guidance to parents
• Able to manage exposure to distressing life events and stressful complex partnerships
• Highly reflective and able to learn from experiences
• Able to assess a situation, set priorities and problem solve quickly and effectively
• Able to communicate clearly and succinctly both verbally and in writing
• Exceptional communication, facilitative and motivating skills
• Able to work effectively with diverse groups
• Competent computer skills to create reports, use email, read excel spreadsheets etc.
• Able to analyse numerical data
• Able to promote the programme to local communities, colleagues, commissioners and service providers
• Able to support others to work within safeguarding policies and procedure

Sponsorship

• Do you have the right to stay and work in the UK without sponsorship (share-codes will be checked if applicable)

Skills and Attributes

• Able to manage strong emotions, sensitive issues and undertake courageous conversations
• Able to develop supportive, trusting and respectful relationships
• Able to work effectively in a team, supporting others and challenging colleagues views and attitudes when necessary
• Able to sensitively provide anticipatory guidance to parents
• Able to manage exposure to distressing life events and stressful complex partnerships
• Highly reflective and able to learn from experiences
• Willingness to prepare for and engage in clinical and managerial supervision
• Able to assess a situation, set priorities and problem solve quickly and effectively
• Able to communicate clearly and succinctly both verbally and in writing
• Exceptional communication, facilitative and motivating skills
• Able to work effectively with diverse groups
• Basic computer skills to create reports, use email, read excel spreadsheets etc.
• Able to analyse numerical data
• Motivational interviewing
• Counselling

Qualifications

• Nursing or midwifery qualifications and registered with the NMC
• Degree level or equivalent professional qualification
• Understand the difference between advice giving and motivational approaches
• Has some knowledge of the research base of NFP and replication in UK
• National and local safeguarding policies
• National Service Frameworks and relevant policy documents
• The Children Act and Assessment Framework and recommendations of recent child protection reviews
• Principles of clinical governance
• Willingness to undertake specialist post graduate training and be assessed on competence in clinical field following training
• Willingness to undertake personal study to develop understanding of a range of clinical areas National and local safeguarding policies
• Attachment theory
• Self-efficacy theory
• Human ecology theory
• Behavioural change theory Parent/infant mental health

Relationships

• If you are related to a director, or have a relationship with a director or employee of an appointing organisation, please state the relationship:

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.

Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust