Nursery Nurse

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Newcastle-under-Lyme; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A local health service provider is seeking an enthusiastic Nursery Nurse to support parents and promote health relationships between mothers and babies. The role includes home visits and collaborative work within the community setting in Staffordshire. Candidates should possess relevant qualifications and a passion for child welfare. Competitive benefits and flexible working options are available.

Benefits

Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave

Flexible working options

Health and Wellbeing support

Free car parking at all trust sites

Qualifications

• Experience in providing one-to-one interventions with parents.
• Understanding and meeting individual and population needs in childcare.
• Ability to adapt to changing work procedures.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to parents/carers to develop skills.
• Develop innovative approaches to working with families.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Child Protection knowledge

Team working

Good communications skills

Education

NNEB or equivalent

Advanced nursery nurse qualification

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to expand our established nursery nurse provision within Staffordshire 0-19 Family Health and Wellbeing service. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, passionate and motivated Nursery Nurse to join our expanding 0-19 Family Health and Wellbeing Service. The nursery nurse role will offer one-to-one interventions to support parents/carers to develop skills and confidence in caring for their baby and to promote the mother and baby relationship. You will be involved in the development of the nursery nurse role within the service whilst building and maintaining relationships with other services. The role will involve working in a clinical setting across a geographical area, some home visits will be expected too. The nursery nurse role is a vital in contributing to the multidisciplinary team approach of care to families. We have provisions to work from several bases in the geographical area of Staffordshire in addition to home working, and remote working.

Main duties of the job

• To provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, where persuasive, motivational, negotiating, empathic and reassurance skills are required as there may be barriers to understanding including language or learning difficulties.
• To develop and implement an innovative approach to working with families and other agencies.
• Professional childcare knowledge acquired through NNEB or equivalent and has attended short courses to enhance learning and can demonstrate this in practice.
• To be able to adapt to a range of work procedures and practices which vary day by day.
• To continue to develop skills through training.
• To demonstrate significant experience working with children with complex needs.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Job responsibilities

Our collective agreed values are:

• Be patient and child centred, understanding and meeting individual and population needs, with high quality, evidence based and innovative approaches to care of patients, babies and their families.
• Work flexibly, collaboratively, transparently and honestly with women, families, and others involved in their care, with respect and trust for each others experience, knowledge, skills and contributions.
• Support each other in delivering and continuously improving care to our whole population, nurturing our empowerment, enthusiasm and motivation.

For further information relating to this vacancy please refer to the attached job description and job specification.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

Person Specification

Qualification

• NNEB or equivalent
• Advanced nursey nurse qualification

Experience

Skills and knowledge

• Child Protection knowledge. Team working. Good communications skills

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.

Employer name

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 01 October 2025