SCPHN School Nurse Harrow

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Greenhill; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in England is looking for a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse. The role involves delivering proactive health services for children and families, conducting assessments, and ensuring safety through effective safeguarding practices. Successful candidates will demonstrate compassion, respect, and empowerment in their interactions with service users and staff. This position requires strong supervision skills and a commitment to continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience in identifying and assessing child and family health needs.
• Ability to supervise and support the work of others.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding practices.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality health services to children and families.
• Maintain compliance with mandatory training requirements.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement in safety.

Job description

Overview

The Specialist Community Public Health Nurse School Nurse will work as part of the 0-19 team delivering a high quality, pro-active service for children, young people and their families. The aim of the service is to achieve equity of health outcomes for the local population through the provision of evidence based and needs led service. The post holder will contribute to the identification and assessment of child and family health needs and the delivery of a universal core service, targeted interventions and public health interventions to children and their families within a defined locality. Using their clinical judgement and risk assessments to keep the people using our services as safe as possible.

Responsibilities

• Safeguarding people by recognising and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse but also recognising their own limits and asking for help and escalate concerns when necessary
• Escalating safety concerns and by doing so acting as effective advocates for those who use our services
• Being open and transparent about their own practice
• Supervising the work of others
• Reflecting on everyday practice to identify areas where improvements in safety or quality can be made
• Working with others to create a culture of continuous improvement
• Maintaining accurate, legible, comprehensive records
• Maintaining compliance with their mandatory training requirements

As a specialist practitioner we expect you to role model these values and contribute to ensuring that they are embedded in the practice of the team.

Organisational values

Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all School Nurses (Specialist Community Public Health Nurses) to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their families and carers and also other staff members. We expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better. We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people\'s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic. We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs. We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.