Are you a Specialist Community Public Health (SCPHN) School Nurse driven by a desire to make a difference to the lives of children, young people, and families? We are looking for an experienced Nursing Midwifery Council registered professional, to help us achieve our purpose at Barnardo's:Changing Childhoods, Changing Lives.
Barnardo's strategy identifies the need to support those children and young people who are at greatest risk of poor health, and as a School Nurse Lead in Barnardo's Health Team, you will be integral to ensuring its success.
This is an extremely exciting time to join Barnardo's UK Health Team. We are an ambitious and dynamic team that includes both clinical and non-clinical experts, enabling Barnardo's to become a leading integrated Health and Social Care Charity.
Main duties of the job
Key Activities:Be the organisational school nursing expert, sharing expertise and knowledge within and on behalf of the Health team across the charity. Using your school nursing expertise and knowledge of local and national policy, lead, identify and act on health and social care-related gaps and opportunities. Sit on the Barnardo's Clinical Reference Group as an expert in school nursing. Work across all four nations to continue to support the delivery of existing health tenders. Demonstrate leadership when providing specialist knowledge and advice across children’s health services, according to the service model, contractual agreements, and guidelines. Contribute to the development and implementation of health-related policies, procedures and protocols, always ensuring adherence to current legislation. Provide high quality clinical advice, support and oversight (as appropriate for virtual working) to the development of service models national delivery models. Monitor and report back standards, impact and outcomes of 5‑19 (25 SEND) service delivery, embedding clinical audit to the Strategic Lead for Health Visiting and School Nursing, to ensure delivery of a high‑quality service; and ensure these comply with the defined policies, procedures, standards and protocols.
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:Provide clinical and professional leadership/advice for integrated health and social care models and services associated with the 5‑19 HCP, ensuring all models that are developed are in alignment to the ambitions of the governments 10‑year plan, ICBs and strategic commissioners, for example: Neighbourhood health. Guide the strategic oversight for school nursing activities in relation to service development and advice, infrastructure and operational delivery for new contractual opportunities. Work alongside our business development team to understand and identify future 5‑19 opportunities across UK, that will support growth. Provide expertise and leadership to create, develop, deliver, and evaluate a range of health projects focused primarily on prevention and integrated child and family health and mental health. Guide and advise the Health team and children services to embed a culture of outcomes‑based practice, review clinical outcomes of service delivery, and identify changes in practice to improve outcomes. Work autonomously and collaboratively within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for governance of public health practice within Barnardos. Lead alongside key stakeholders with major contract bid opportunities for Healthy Child Programme 5‑19 (25 SEND) contracts - using clinical expertise to lead conversations with health providers. Provide expertise and specialist advice and support at regional and national level as required for individual contracts. Participate in projects regarding future service development, developing and implementing identified changes to the delivery of care. Establish and lead on effective partnerships with colleagues within the organisation, raising awareness to promote the public health role and knowledge and experience of the health visiting and school nursing agenda. Represent Barnardo's regionally and nationally as requested, building upon and scoping out collaborative relationships between healthcare, local authorities, the VCSE and other Integrated Care System (ICS) organisations.
Person Specification
Skills/Abilities
* - Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to develop strong working
* relationships at all levels.
* - Ability to be creative and lead with a solution focused mindset.
* - Able to establish and maintain key relationships with colleagues and other disciplines, both
* internally and externally.
* - Ability to facilitate others to develop service provision.
* - Flexible and able to respond to changing priorities.
Experience
* Experience
* - Significant community experience of working as a SCPHN (SN) with children and families with
* complex needs experiencing deep inequalities and leading and managing their care.
* - Recent management and leadership experience of 5‑19, public health services.
* - Quality and performance, reporting. Service design/implementation or change.
* - Evidence of utilising evidence-based practice and appraising standards, providing clinical
* direction for staff.
* - Expert knowledge of school nursing and safeguarding policy and procedures and assessment
* and analysis of vulnerable children and families.
* - Experience of using initiative and leading change to achieve better outcomes for children.
Qualifications
* Education/Knowledge
* - Registered with the NMC RN & SCPHN School Nurse (SN).
* - Understanding of public health and health promotion for CYP.
* - Understanding of current local and national government health policies and the implications
* on health provision for CYP.
* - Demonstrates commitment to own continued professional development (CPD).
* - Leadership or management qualification or equivalent recent experience in a leadership
* position. (E)
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.
£51,993 to £54,439 a year FTE plus Office at Home Allowance £312 per annum
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