School Nurse - 0-19 Service Waltham Forest
Are you a qualified, NMC registered, Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) School Nurse or a student SCPHN School Nurse, qualifying in the next few months?
Do you have:
- Excellent all-round communication and listening skills.
- A willingness to train and progress.
- Ability to work autonomously and yet be part of a wider team.
- Qualities of leadership and be willing to take responsibility and make appropriate decisions.
- Ability to reflect, learn and build on previous experience and knowledge.
If yes, we would love to hear from you.
Come and join our friendly, welcoming, and inclusive 0-19 team and share our ambition to make a fundamental difference in improving the health and wellbeing of children and their families in Waltham Forest.
Benefits
We offer our school nurses:
- Exceptional Health and Wellbeing support for all our staff.
- Comprehensive training and creative learning opportunities.
- Forums when you can feedback your concerns and ideas to improve our service. We have a commitment to listening to staff, and taking frontline direction so to practice in line with the highest clinical standards,
- Attractive NHS Pension Scheme, Annual Leave and much more.
For more benefits on offer please see Benefit flyer attached.
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- To manage a caseload of designated schools or area as the named health professional, with responsibility for the planning and delivery of the public health initiatives to the caseload.
- To be responsible for identifying need within a school or community through profiling.
- To use a child, young person public health approach to address health inequalities. Including the promotion of good health and the prevention of ill health in the school, supporting schools to manage children and young people with medical conditions.
- To support the implementation of service development, standard setting, clinical audit and benchmarking, to deliver needs- led evidence-based care that supports the local and national priorities and policies.
- To be the principal point of contact for allocated schools in an area/locality. To develop and deliver co-operative working arrangements with schools that support healthy outcomes for children, young people and facilitate partnership working across schools and other partner organisations.
- To work with public health, local statutory, private and voluntary providers, and users to develop and promote practices that is accessible and responsive to all section of the schools community, ensuring that services are targeted to the most vulnerable groups and individuals to support social inclusion.
- To participate in the Early Health Assessment process and support the lead professional as appropriate.
- To provide and promote access to information and other services, to refer as appropriate.
- To liaise and work in partnership with statutory and non-statutory agencies, and other health services colleagues.
- To identify children in need and children in need of protection, and work with other agencies to support vulnerable families.
- To adhere to current Local Safeguarding Board and London Child Protection Procedures.
- To participate in regular discussion with Clinical Locality and Safeguarding Team about children giving cause for concern.
- To maintain and develop clinical skills in response to the changing needs, including outbreaks of communicable diseases, programmes of immunisation and health promotion.
- To take responsibility for the delivery of extended health services and specialist community clinics as appropriate.
- To take the lead for a clinical area (to be agreed on appointment) and being responsible for maintaining up to date knowledge and passing information to the whole service. This may include a training role, producing and maintaining standards, protocols.
- To undertake any other duties as required by the Team Leader, SHWS Lead or Director, as required providing it is within the incumbents sphere of competence.
- To run training/advice sessions for colleagues, parents/carers, schools and others service users.
Person Specification
Experience
- Experience of managing own caseload, supervising others and delivering training and education programmes.
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries within Health/Social care and education.
Knowledge
- Good understanding of the Healthy Child Programme and key areas of priorities within school nursing.
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse, Children's Nurse, Midwife, or Mental Health Nurse with current NMC registration and Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification in School Nursing (or due to qualify in the next 3 months).
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.
£45,953 to £54,254 a year Including Outer HCAS
Contract
Permanent
