Specialist Community Public Health Nurse-School Nursing

NHS; Leicester; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse for the Leicester City Healthy Together School Nursing Team. This role involves working with children and young people aged 5-19 to deliver the Healthy Child Programme and provide essential public health services. The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, self-motivated, and possess the required NMC and SCPHN registrations. If you're looking to make a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of our community, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits

Flexible working policy

Support for professional development

Qualifications

• Must have NMC registration in any branch of nursing.
• Experience in public health nursing with a compassionate approach.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional nursing leadership and guidance in health care quality.
• Assess health and social needs of children, groups, and communities.
• Implement safeguarding measures for children and vulnerable adults.

Skills

Public Health Nursing

Safeguarding

Holistic Assessment

Leadership

Communication

Education

NMC Registration

Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) registration

Job description

Specialist Community Public Health Nurse-School Nursing

Exciting opportunities have arisen to join our Leicester City Healthy Together School Nursing Team as a Band 6 Specialist Community Public Health Nurse working with children and young people aged 5-19 within our 0-19 service.

We are seeking to employ the very best talent to help us deliver the Healthy Child Programme and our ambitious vision. We would love to meet you if you are an enthusiastic and self-motivated Public Health Nurse.

Our teams are busy, high achieving and dynamic consisting of committed and skilled people who want to deliver the best possible care for children and their families.

School nursing offers a range of services to meet the varying needs of the local population, which includes our well-developed digital offer.

You must have a NMC registration in any branch of nursing and a Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) School Nursing registration.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a warm, respectful, caring, and compassionate approach to delivering a flexible and responsive service for our diverse and continually evolving health needs of our population.

Please see job description and person specification for full details. Details of qualifications and experience need to be clearly evidenced within your application form.

Main duties of the job

• To contribute to care, quality, performance and clinical activity by providing professional nursing leadership and guidance, clinical advice and management in relation to the key dimensions of health care quality.
• To holistically assess the health and social needs of individuals, groups, and communities in detail, to determine an appropriate plan of care and evaluate outcomes of health-based interventions.
• Recognise indicators of abuse in children and vulnerable adults and initiate safeguarding measures in accordance with recognised policies and procedures of the Trust and Leicestershire and Rutland safeguarding children partnership.
• To search for and identify evolving health needs and situations hazardous to health at both individual and community level and to act as a resource to promote positive health and wellbeing.
• To demonstrate the ability to transfer previous professional knowledge and skills of Public Health Nursing; developing the ability to work effectively with sound judgement when dealing with complex emotional situations, family dynamics and difficult environments.
• Have the ability to prioritise workload and demonstrate flexibility in response to urgent needs and organising day to day work at an individual and team level.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.About UsLeicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Please review the attached job description and person specification. This document outlines the full range of criteria that are required for the role. In your application, you can state how you meet the criteria in the job description and person specification.

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.