School Nurse - Forest of Dean

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Lydney; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Induction Programme

Clinical Supervision

Restorative Supervision

Safeguarding Supervision

Digital appointments

Texting service for young people

Job summary

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust in Forest of Dean locality, Lydney, is hiring a School Nurse on a fixed term basis up to 14 months to backfill a maternity leave. The post is 30 hours per week, year round.

You must be a registered nurse or midwife and work with children and families, delivering Healthy Child Programme care, safeguarding, and health promotion in schools with a supportive preceptorship and supervision framework.

Qualifications

• Current registration as a nurse or midwife with the NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council).
• Experience in public health, school nursing or working with children and families is desirable.
• Ability to work in a school setting and engage with young people, families and communities.

Responsibilities

• Assess and implement care programmes from the Healthy Child Programme as directed by the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse.
• Progress interventions based on identified risk factors affecting a child's health outcomes.
• Provide leadership and act as a role model within the team, promoting professional values.
• Assess health needs of communities, schools and children to reduce disadvantage.
• Promote health in school-aged children and identify health, development or behavioural needs.
• Collaborate with schools to create a healthy school environment using data from pupil surveys.
• Facilitate planning and delivery of drop-in sessions for young people and the wider school community.

Skills

Registered Nurse

Midwife

Education

NMC-registered

Job description

This role is offered on a fixed term basis for up to 14 months to backfill a maternity leave.

We are looking for a registered nurse or midwife to work with children and families in the School Nursing team in Forest of Dean locality based in Lydney. The post is 30 hours per week year round.

We offer:

• An Induction Programme, training and competency framework to underpin transition into role
• Clinical Supervision, Restorative Supervision and Safeguarding Children Supervision to support professional practice
• Digital appointments to young people and parents offering quick and easy access to health advice and support
• Social media platforms and a texting service in response to requests of young people and families.
• Diverse work in a skill-mixed team developed through robust competency and operating frameworks

This role offers diverse and rewarding opportunities for nurses to make a difference to children and young people's lives through advice, support and signposting using public health skills of enabling and empowering families and communities to help themselves.

We are looking to fill a fixed term vacancy in Forest locality.

A School Nurse is someone who is;

• dynamic and innovative, who embraces challenge
• wanting to help children, families and young people to make the best choices for their health and wellbeing
• able to support and respond to children young people and families most in need
• wanting to help safeguard children and young people of Gloucestershire at risk of harm
• interested in working in partnership with public sector and voluntary and community sector colleagues to achieve the best outcomes for children, young people and their families
• enthusiastic and motivated to develop and deliver plans to improve health outcomes for individuals, families and communities

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

• Responsible and accountable for assessing and implementing programmes of care from the Healthy Child Programme, as directed by the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse. This may also involve other evidenced based programmes of care in partnership with clients or other agencies to identify and address health needs.
• Progress the level of intervention as may be required according to identified risk factors which potentially could impact on a child's health outcomes.
• Provide leadership and act as a role model to junior members of the team by representing the values and beliefs of the nursing profession in addition to aligning to the GHC Values Framework.
• Assess global health needs of communities, schools, and their children to ensure children are not disadvantaged through ill health or social circumstances.
• Promote and monitor health in school aged children, including identifying physical and mental health needs, disability and problems with development or behaviour.
• Work with schools to provide a healthy environment using data from the Online Pupil Survey, in partnership with the Healthy Schools Programme.

Facilitate the planning and implementation of drop-in sessions, according to the needs of the young people and the whole school community.

We provide a Multi-professional preceptorship programme that is aligned to the National Preceptorship Framework for Nursing and have been awarded the Interim quality mark from NHS England. Our programme is provided to all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners. In addition to the programme we also offer all preceptees the opportunity of enrolling and completing the level 7 (Masters) 15 credit validated module Preceptorship for Healthcare (AP7026).

Newly qualified Social Workers are offered the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment programme (ASYE) which is similar to a preceptorship programme.

The Trust is required to work in line with the Government's UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas