School Nurse - Gloucester

Saarthy Travel Solutions; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a part-time School Nurse in Gloucester! This rewarding role focuses on improving the health outcomes of children and young people through advice, support, and community engagement. You will work within a skilled team, providing essential health services and promoting well-being among families. If you're dynamic, innovative, and passionate about making a difference in the lives of children, this is the perfect opportunity for you. With flexible hours and a supportive work environment, you can truly impact your community while developing your professional skills. Don't miss out on this chance to contribute to a healthier future!

Benefits

Induction Programme

Clinical Supervision

Training and Competency Framework

Diverse Work Environment

Qualifications

• Registered nurse or midwife with experience in public health and child care.
• Ability to support children and families in health-related issues.

Responsibilities

• Assess and implement care programs for children based on health needs.
• Promote health in school-aged children and monitor their development.

Skills

Registered Nurse

Midwifery

Public Health Skills

Child Safeguarding

Communication Skills

Education

Nursing Degree

Midwifery Qualification

Job description

Part time SCHOOL NURSE permanent position available in Gloucester!

30 hours - 4 days per week.

We are looking for a registered nurse or midwife to work with children and families in the School Nursing team in the Gloucester city locality, 30 hours over 4 days a week.

We offer:

1. An Induction Programme, training and competency framework to underpin transition into role.
2. Clinical Supervision, Restorative Supervision and Safeguarding Children Supervision to support professional practice.
3. Digital appointments to young people and parents offering quick and easy access to health advice and support.
4. Social media platforms and a texting service in response to requests of young people and families.
5. 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.

Ideal Candidate:

1. Dynamic and innovative, who embraces challenge.
2. Wants to help children, families and young people to make the best choices for their health and wellbeing.
3. Able to support and respond to children, young people and families most in need.
4. Wants to help safeguard children and young people of Gloucestershire at risk of harm.
5. 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.
6. Enthusiastic and motivated to develop and deliver plans to improve health outcomes for individuals, families and communities.

We strongly encourage all applicants to spend some time either speaking with a school nurse or shadowing to gain a practical insight of the role. Please contact 07500 089411 who can arrange this for you.

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

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

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.