SCPHN - School Nurse Vulnerable Team

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust; Walsall; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a School Nurse for Inclusion to lead the Healthy Child Programme for marginalized children. This role involves providing public health interventions, collaborating with partners, and delivering high-quality care. Candidates should be registered nurses with experience in public health and working with vulnerable groups. The position requires strong leadership and evaluation skills within a multi-agency context.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with experience in public health nursing.
• Ability to lead and evaluate health programs for children and young people.
• Experience working with marginalized or vulnerable groups.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality, evidence-based care to children and families.
• Lead and deliver health programs within the Inclusion Pathway.
• Collaborate with partner agencies to respond to public health needs.

Skills

Public health interventions

Leadership

Partnership working

Child protection procedures

Education

First level registered nurse

Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Health)

Job description

The School Nurse for Inclusion post sits within the Inclusion Pathway HCP 0-19 and is part of the School Nursing provision. The post holder will lead on the provision of the Healthy Child Programme to children and young people outside of mainstream education and/or vulnerable group including young carers, those not in education & training, electively home educated, asylum seekers, homeless.

Main duties of the job

The School Nursing, Health Visiting and Teenage Pregnancy form the Healthy Child Programme 0-19 which deliver public health services to babies, children and young people and their families. The overarching aim of public health services is to prevent, promote and protect the health and wellbeing of children and families. They work with stakeholders across a number of settings and organisations to lead delivery of the Healthy Child Programme (5-19) to improve child health outcomes and ensure that families in need of help or at risk are identified at the earliest opportunity.

Specialist community public health nurses (School Nurses and Health Visitors) lead the service supported by a wider skill mixed team and working with a range of partners including education, children's services and voluntary sector. Qualified School Nurses and Health Visitors are responsible for leading, developing, planning, delivering and evaluating a range of interventions for children and their families. They provide and delegate care to the wider team with the aim of improving the health and wellbeing of babies, children and young people. The service is central to delivering public health outcomes for children.

The School Nurse responsible for inclusion will support the health needs of CYP and their families outside of mainstream education and/or vulnerable group including young carers, those not in education & training, electively home educated, asylum seekers, homeless.

About us

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 284,300. It provides inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010, and ongoing upgrades ensure the Trust now has state-of-the-art facilities, including a Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit. A new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre, opened in March 2023, has significantly improved emergency care facilities and capacity, providing almost 5,000 square metres of additional clinical space.

Job responsibilities

To use public health knowledge and expertise to provide high quality, safe evidenced based care and interventions to the children, young people and their families.

To provide clinical leadership support and professional direction within the skilled mixed team ensuring that high standards and safe levels of care are provided to children and young people.

Work with partner agencies to identify and respond to the public health and wellbeing needs of children and young people within locality areas and borough wide to determine the priorities for action e.g. work with in Early Help localities, GP PCNs. Take into account local and national priorities.

To lead on delivery of HCP 5-19 and high impact areas within the Inclusion Pathway. Developing, planning, delivering and evaluating programmes of work, working collaboratively with other health professionals and partner agencies, including the voluntary sector. This includes attendance at partnership meetings and dissemination of information to service.

Work as an autonomous practitioner within a multi-agency arena, applying your knowledge and expertise in health and wellbeing to enable children & young people to reach their full potential (physically emotionally and socially). This includes contributing to e.g. child protection procedures, early help support and looked after children.

Within the scope of professional practice and using appropriate frameworks, take lead responsibility to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate the health needs of specific groups of children e.g., looked after children, children with medical needs, children in need of safeguarding or early help. In partnership with the child, young person and parents/carers agree care plans to improve health and wellbeing.

To develop, implement and evaluate Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education pupils sessions for education settings.

To develop, implement and evaluate health education and promotion sessions for parents and carers to support them to promote their child's health & wellbeing.

To develop, implement and evaluate training packages for education staff and staff in partner agencies to support children and young people's health & wellbeing e.g. medical needs training, mental health training, RSE training.

Effectively manage a caseload and where appropriate, delegate care to non-registrants and maintain professional accountability for supervising that care.

Promote team working at all times and act up, as directed in the absence of the clinical team leader. Provide line management duties for junior members of staff within your locality team e.g. 1-1s, PDR, caseload supervision.

Provide care in a range of variety of settings to include schools, clients' home, clinics, community venues or other settings.

To develop, implement, monitor and evaluate quality standards e.g. SOPs with School Nursing Practice and wider HCP, utilising the clinical governance framework to support the provision of a high quality, safe care. This includes contribution to reports for service monitoring e.g. commissioner reporting.

Provide pre, post registration student nurses and staff requiring induction, mentorship and preceptorship with relevant and suitable experiences within children, young people and families public health service, to include teaching and assessment throughout their placement.

To ensure personal and development requirements are achieved by: Participate in annual PDRs and 1-1s, Continue to update knowledge and skills through lifelong learning approach, Attend mandatory training, Work with Trust policies and procedures. Share knowledge, expertise, systems and good practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• First level registered nurse.
• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Health) or Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visiting) with 'transfer of field of practice' for School Nursing or willing to undertake the course.
• Evidence of additional qualification or demonstratable of development of knowledge/skills through experience in a specialist area of support e.g., young carers, asylum seekers, electively home educated.

Knowledge and skills

• Demonstrable evidence of professional development.
• Demonstrable experience of planning, leading, delivering and evaluating public health interventions and programmes of care.
• Experience of working with children and young people from marginalised groups or underrepresented groups e.g., young carers, electively home educated, asylum seekers, young people not in education or training.
• In-depth knowledge of child health of 5-19's and development.
• In depth knowledge of child and family public health practice.
• Knowledge of working with underrepresented groups e.g., young carers, electively home educated, asylum seekers, young people not in education or training.

Skills and aptitudes

• Ability to apply clinical governance framework to clinical practice.
• Ability to make timely, sound clinical judgments and to work within a team and direct other team members to deliver high quality client care.

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.