School Staff Nurse

HCRG Care Group; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community health service provider in the UK is seeking a Band 5 School Staff Nurse to join their Wiltshire School Nursing Team. This role focuses on providing health services to children and young people in a community setting. The ideal candidate will be a Registered Nurse committed to promoting health and wellbeing among school-aged children. This fixed-term position offers 30 hours per week during term time, with opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with an interest in community services for children and young people.
• Experience in working with vulnerable children and families in a community setting.

Responsibilities

• Support the school nurse community service in identifying health needs.
• Collaborate with partners to advocate for children's health.
• Assess children's health needs in line with safeguarding policies.

Skills

Understanding of Clinical Governance

Nursing skills of leadership

Assessment of children's health needs

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 School Staff Nurse working as part of the Wiltshire wide School Nursing Team. You will be a Registered Nurse with an interest in providing services to Children, Young People and their families within the community setting. You'll join an experienced team who are focused on clinical excellence.

We are very excited to be delivering our School Nursing Public Health Service to provide the Healthy Child Programme using a holistic approach in order to ensure a comprehensive Public Health Service to the school aged population and their families. You will provide school aged children / young people and their families with a service that promotes the physical, mental and emotional health and provide support for families / carers by partnership working in a community setting.

This is a fixed-term position for 39 weeks and is term time only working 30 hours per week during term time.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the concept of Clinical Governance and be skilled in the identification, assessment and protection of vulnerable children and families
• To support the school nurse community service as part of the skill mixed public health team. To contribute to the development of the School nursing service in the defined locality through liaison with and support from the Specialist School Nurse and innovative practice to meet health needs.
• Working across organizational boundaries to contribute towards the identification of population health needs in line with the organisations policies and priorities To lead on delegated work from the Specialist School Nurse, utilizing Nursing skills of leadership, prioritization and assessment.
• To collaborate with key partners to address public health needs as an advocate for children/young people, families/carers and the school health service.
• To be responsible for the assessment of childrens health needs to identify any deviation from normal development in line with Safeguarding Children and young people and the Early Support assessment.
• To support allocated caseload of vulnerable children and adolescents through proactive discussions with families, schools, other agencies, attendance at Child Protection Conferences and one to one discussions, under the support and supervision of the specialist school nurse to help plan and prioritize support and interventions.

About the Company:

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs 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.