School Nurse - 0 -19 Service Waltham Forest

GP Care Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 46,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension Scheme

Annual Leave

Training opportunities

Staff forums and frontline feedback

Job summary

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group is recruiting a School Nurse for the 0-19 Service in Waltham Forest and surrounding areas. You will be a NMC registered SCPHN School Nurse or an eligible student nearing qualification, with opportunities to train and progress within a supportive team.

Join our inclusive team focused on improving health and wellbeing for children and families, with strong partnerships across public health, schools and general practice, and a commitment to high clinical standards.

Qualifications

• NMC registered SCPHN School Nurse or eligible to qualify within the next 3 months.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of designated schools or area as the named health professional.
• Plan and deliver public health initiatives to the caseload.
• Identify need within a school or community through profiling.
• Address health inequalities using a child and public health approach.
• Lead and contribute to service development, clinical audits, and benchmarking.

Skills

Communication

Autonomous work

Leadership

Reflective practice

Education

NMC SCPHN School Nursing

Job description

School Nurse - 0 -19 Service Waltham Forest

Are you aqualified, NMC registered, Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) SchoolNurse or are a student SCPHN School Nurse, qualifying in the next fewmonths?

Do you have:

• Excellent all-round communication and listening skills.
• A willingness to train and progress.
• Ability to work autonomously and yet be part of a wider team.
• Qualities of leadership and be willing to take responsibility and make appropriate decisions.
• Ability to reflect, learn and build on previous experience and knowledge.

If yes, wewould love to hear from you.

Come and join ourfriendly, welcoming, and inclusive 0-19 team and share our ambition to make afundamental difference in improving the health and wellbeing of children andtheir families in Waltham Forest.

We offer our school nurses:

• Exceptional Health and Wellbeing support for all our staff.
• Comprehensive training and creative learning opportunities.
• Forums when you can feedback your concerns and ideas to improve our service. We have a commitment to listening to staff, and taking frontline direction so to practice in line with the highest clinical standards,
• AttractiveNHS Pension Scheme, Annual Leave and much more.

For more benefits on offer please see Benefit flyer attached.

Applicants from the past six months need not reapply.

Main duties of the job

We have within Waltham Forest excellent opportunities within our 0-19 team for innovative and motivated School Nurses who are keen to contribute to the further development of our service.

We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you, is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care, supporting children, young people and families have the best start in life delivered by outstanding people.

We have excellent partnership working with Waltham Forest Public Health Service, Primary and Secondary Schools, and General Practitioners to enable the Best Start in life and optimisation of health outcomes for children and young people.

Shortlisted candidates will be required to attend a face to face interview.

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group is an Inclusive Employer.

We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in the job description. We also encourage people from all sections of our community to apply for jobs with us. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic, disabled etc applicants because they are currently under-represented in our workforce.

About us

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

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

The key priorities for the Care Group are:

• Innovationand support for primary care
• Beinga great place to work
• Integratingprimary and community care
• Providingof high-quality cost-effective care to local people
• Influencingimprovements in health outcomes

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• To manage a caseload of designated schoolsor area as the named health professional, with responsibility for the planningand delivery of the publichealth initiatives to the caseload.
• To be responsible for identifying need within a school or community throughprofiling.
• To use a child,young person publichealth approach to address healthinequalities. Including the promotion of good health and the prevention of ill healthin the school, supporting schoolsto manage children and young people with medical conditions
• To support the implementation of service development, standard setting, clinicalaudit and benchmarking, to deliverneeds-led evidence-based care that supportsthe local and nationalpriorities and policies.
• To be the principalpoint of contactfor allocated schoolsin an area/locality. To developand deliver co-operative working arrangements with schools that support healthyoutcomes for children, young people and facilitate partnership working across schoolsand other partner organisations.
• To work with public health,local statutory, privateand voluntary providers, and users to develop and promote practicethat is accessible and responsive to all sectionof the schools community, ensuringthat services are targeted to the most vulnerable groupsand individuals to support socialinclusion.
• To participate in the Early Health Assessment process and supportthe lead professional as appropriate.
• To provide and promoteaccess to information and other services, to refer as appropriate
• To liaise and work in partnership with statutory and non-statutory agencies, and other health servicescolleagues.
• To identify children in need and children in need of protection, and work with other agencies to support vulnerable families.
• To adhere to currentLocal Safeguarding Boardand London Child Protection Procedures.
• To participate in regulardiscussion with ClinicalLocality and Safeguarding Team about childrengiving cause forconcern.
• To maintain and developclinical skills in response to the changingneeds, including outbreaksof communicable diseases,programmes of immunisation and health promotion.
• To take responsibility for the deliveryof extended healthservices and specialist community clinics as appropriate.
• To take the lead for a clinical area (to be agreed on appointment) and being responsible for maintaining up to date knowledgeand passing information to the wholeservice. This may include a training role, producing and maintainingstandards, protocols.
• To undertake any other duties asrequired by the Team Leader,SHWS Lead or Director, as required providing it is withinthe incumbents sphereof competence.
• To run training/advice sessionsfor colleagues, parents/carers, schools and otherservice users

Person Specification

Experience

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

Knowledge

• Good understanding of the Healthy Child Programme and key areas of priorities within school nursing.

Experience

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

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse, Children's Nurse, Midwife, or Mental Health Nurse with current NMC registration and Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification in School Nursing (or due to qualify in the next 3 months).

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.

£45,953 to £54,254 a yearIncluding Outer HCAS

Contract

Permanent