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The Healthy Weight Nurse will provide effective and comprehensive weight management to support severely obese children and their parents/carers who have been identified through the National Child Measurement Programme, by health visitors, health professionals and education ensuring that care is evidence based and safe levels of intervention are delivered. The Healthy Weight Nurse will support parents/carers, young people and children around healthy lifestyles and deliver the Healthy Weight Offer for their allocated caseload. The new post holder will also be expected to work collaboratively with the wider school health team and partner agencies around supporting healthy weight in children and young people as well as meeting our statutory obligations around safeguarding. This role presents a real opportunity to broaden your skill‑set in policy and strategy, caseload management and multidisciplinary working while at the same time making a difference and having a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of Manchester's children, young people and their families.
* Provides effective and comprehensive weight management support for severely obese children and their parents/carers identified through the National Child Measurement Programme.
* Supports parents/carers, young people and children around healthy lifestyles and delivers the Healthy Weight Offer for allocated caseload.
* Works collaboratively with the wider school health team and partner agencies to promote healthy weight in children and young people.
* Meets statutory obligations around safeguarding.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust in England with a turnover of over £3bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary. We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022. We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable. At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Helen Tutty, Job title: Clinical Healthy Weight Team Lead (Acting), Email: helen.tutty@mft.nhs.uk, Telephone number: 07870906793.
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