School Nurse

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board; Heybridge; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

My Reward Hub

Wages on demand

Wellbeing support

eLearning & CPD access

Career progression paths

Innovation funding

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking a Band 5 School Nurse to join the Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service. You will support children, young people and families with the Healthy Child Programme, working within a Healthy Family Team to deliver high-quality care across community settings.

You will mentor pre-registration students, collaborate with SCPHN colleagues, and participate in safeguarding and continuous professional development; IT proficiency and a driving licence are desirable for field roles.

Qualifications

• NMC registered to practice in the UK and eligible for practice.
• Nursing or Midwifery qualification required.
• Experience with children and young people and family services is essential.
• SCPHN training available after one year in post.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the Healthy Child Programme in school and community settings.
• Mentor pre-registration students and provide preceptorship to new staff.
• Provide leadership and model excellent standards of care.
• Ensure safeguarding supervision and ongoing professional development.

Skills

NMC Registered

Mentorship

Team collaboration

Patient-centred care

Education

Nursing or Midwifery qualification

SCPHN training after 1 year

Tools

Microsoft Office

IT systems (Outlook/Word/Excel)

Job description

As a Band 5 School Nurse, you will be part of our valued team in Essex, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits. These include a Band 5 Agenda for Change salary, NHS pension and terms and conditions, free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location, and membership of My Reward Hub. You'll have access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping and cashback offers, as well as online and face to face support for your mental and physical wellbeing. Additionally, you'll have access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development. You'll join the Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service, focusing on ensuring that everyone in Essex has the best possible start in life by meeting the identified needs of children, young people, and their families. As a School Nurse, you'll join a Healthy Family Team focused on clinical excellence, offering support to children and families, empowering them to reach their full potential and providing leadership by demonstrating excellent standards of care.,

• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job Introduction

On behalf of the NHS, Essex County Council and WECCG, HCRG Care Group and Barnardos are commissioned to provide a range of children, young people and family services throughout Essex that are free at the point of delivery.. The service, known as the Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service, focusses on ensuring that everyone in Essex has the best possible start in life through meeting the identified needs of children, young people and their families. Our services are offered across Essex from the Antenatal period up until a young person turns 19 or 25 for those with Special Educational Needs. We are located within the community delivering outcome based support to families within their homes, schools or at one of our Family Hubs and Delivery Sites. We are striving to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for children and families in the community, for the community, with the community. www.essexfamilywellbeing.co.uk As a School Nurse within the Essex Child & Family Wellbeing Service youll join a team who are focused on clinical excellence and who recently received a Good CQC rating.

Main Responsibility

As a School Nurse, youll join a Healthy Family Team who are focused on clinical excellence. Your days will be rewarding and variedand include offering support to children and families and empowering them to reach their full potential.

• There is a Healthy Family Team located within every District of Essex and is made up of a Multi-disciplinary team, including Health Visitors, School Nurses, Family Wellbeing Nurses and additional colleagues who work together to provide family support.
• As a School Nurse, you will work alongside SCPHN School Nurses and be responsible for the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, including assessment of health needs, development, implementation, and evaluation of packages of care.
• You will work as a team to offer every family a universal School Nursing services to support aspects of a child/Young persons development and health from Transition into School up to the age of 19 (25 for SEND).
• You will provide leadership and act as positive role model by supporting colleagues and demonstrating excellent standards of care.
• You will undertake mentorship responsibilities for pre-registration students whilst on placement within the service and provide preceptorship to support new staff members.
• You will be supported to do this by our Practice Education team. SCPHN training is available after 1 year in post.Regular safeguarding supervision will be provided along with opportunities for continued professional development.
• You will have a Nursing or Midwifery qualification and experience of working with children and young people, along with a passion and drive to help ensure that children have the best possible start in life.
• You will be NMC Registered
• A comprehensive induction programme is provided by our dedicated Practice Education Team. Applications from newly qualified Nurses looking to start their career in a community setting will be considered.
• You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
• You will have a valid UK driving licence and have access to a car for work use, Nursing or Midwifery qualification, NMC Registered, valid UK driving licence, access to a car.

About the HCRG Care Group

The HCRG Care Group changes lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, it is one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services. This organization works with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. They deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services, including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and musculoskeletal services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, the organization supports communities of many millions and directly helps more than half a million people each year. Guided by simple values of care, thought, and action, HCRG Care Group is committed to equal opportunities. The company welcomes applications from a broad range of people and works to provide facilities, work environment adjustments, and technical solutions to be as inclusive as, We change lives by transforming health and care.Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. As youd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.