Are you a passionate, motivated, enthusiastic and caring Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - School Nurse committed to providing a high-quality service to improve outcomes for children living in Coventry?
Applications from existing practitioners and students currently completing the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing course are invited.
We offer a comprehensive Preceptorship programme for newly qualified staff alongside a robust New Starters programme to aid transition into the Trust and the team.
As a SCHPN school nurse you will require excellent communication skills and a broad knowledge of working in the community with children and their wider family.
In Coventry we create and promote a positive learning environment for staff, SCPHN students and pre‑registration students. Training opportunities, clinical and safeguarding supervision is available to all.
The School Nursing team deliver a service that is commissioned by Coventry City Council and provided by South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust, which is ranked in the top 5 in the staff survey and rated outstanding by CQC.
The school nurse will be the named nurse for a number of schools and GP practices within a geographical area and will prioritise, organise and delegate work within the team to ensure effective delivery of service and best use of resource.
The school nurse will lead the team in the delivery of public health programmes and ensure the delivery of the HAPI – The Lancaster Model (TLM) and Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) to improve outcomes for children, young people and families. You will also have additional special responsibility for a designated area as required by the service e.g. young carers etc.
The school nurse will ensure children, young people, families and school communities know the role and function of the school nursing service and how to access the service.
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford‑Upon‑Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston‑on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
As Part Of Our Commitment To Equality, Diversity And Inclusion We Encourage All Applicants To Complete a Short Survey. This Can Be Accessed Via The Link Below
https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2
We appreciate you completing the survey.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Emma Austin Job title: Clinical Lead Email address: emma.austin@swft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07584588471
or contact Jessica Andrews School Nurse telephone number 07584588478 email Jessica. andrews@swft.nhs.uk
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