Driven by our Trust values: Honesty, Empathy, Ambition, Respect; the Trust's vision is to provide high quality care to the diverse communities we serve to make their lives better. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Our cultural diversity, long term conditions and disabilities, and LGBTQIA staff networks are a key part of this commitment, creating positive change and helping build an inclusive culture across the Trust. Different ideas, experiences and backgrounds make us stronger and more creative and applications from all walks of life are welcomed - our processes ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process. Options for flexible working are considered for all roles within CCS, including job share opportunities, compressed hours, annualised hours, tailored working patterns and more. If you are interested in flexible working, please talk to the recruiting manager for this vacancy. Please note, the selection processes at Cambridgeshire Community Services are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills. Please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored, we remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills. Job overview Are you an experienced family nurse, registered nurse or midwife with significant experience of working in the community with vulnerable and complex families? We are offering a 12-month secondment (30 hours per week) to be part of the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Family Nurse Partnership team! We are looking for someone who is passionate about working alongside young parents to deliver this carefully designed programme, offering young parents a chance to transform their own life chances and those of their babies. If you're passionate about working with young parents, are warm, reflective, flexible and motivated to work in a strength-based way to achieve the intended outcomes of the FNP programme, we would like to hear from you. You must hold a first-level Degree and have significant community nursing/midwifery experience. You need to have knowledge of the current public health agenda, in particular the Healthy Child Programme, possess excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills. Safeguarding Children is a fundamental role of this post and you will have sound knowledge and experience of safeguarding children, and meet the requirements of the person specification. Successful applicants must be able to attend mandatory, residential training throughout the coming year at Yarnfield Conference Centre (first training session May 2026) Should we receive a high number of applications we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 3 February 2026 Advert The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a national evidence-based programme. The aim of the programme is to improve the antenatal health, child health and development and parent’s economic self-sufficiency in disadvantaged young families. FNP is part of a wider Young Parent Pathway, and mentorship, training and supervision of others is an integral part of the Family Nurse role. The role is responsible for delivering the FNP intensive, preventive home visiting programme to vulnerable, hard to reach young women who are expecting their first baby. The post holder will be required to develop high-level generalist and specialist skills to work within the clinical methods of the structured programme. Family Nurses will be expected to work flexibly and creatively to achieve the expected outcomes of the programme. As a Family Nurse there is an expectation that you will provide leadership expertise within your locality and within the wider service and system and contribute to quality assurance and improvements. Peterborough & Cambridgeshire is a large county and travel around the county is an expectation of this role. Working with this client group may necessitate a degree of flexibility around working hours to meet the needs of the service users. Currently Children & Young People’s Services cover core working hours of 8am-5.30pm, Mon–Fri. Service core hours may be changed in response to service user needs. Working for our organisation Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives. There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff - who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey. If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development. Detailed job description and main responsibilities This is a demanding specialist role requiring high levels of professional skills and practice and the ability to work as part of, and across teams. As a Family Nurse there is an expectation that you will provide leadership expertise within your locality and within the wider Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Children & Young People’s Health Services. To recruit and engage eligible, hard-to-reach pregnant young women to the FNP programme. To use the programme materials and methods in the clients’ homes in order to achieve the following: Improve the outcomes of pregnancy Improve children’s health and development by enabling parents to provide more sensitive and competent care of them; and Improve parental life-course by helping parents plan future pregnancies, complete their education and find work. To work therapeutically with a range of family members to promote behaviour change and positive outcomes for children and families. To take a lead professional role when required where children and young people with additional needs require an integrated package of support from more than one practitioner/service. To participate in continuous monitoring and engagement in reflective supervision, to ensure that expertise in clinical methods are developed and maintained, that the service offered is of high quality and the programme implemented with fidelity. To work in collaboration with local statutory and mainstream services to ensure that families become confident in accessing a range of other universal health and support services and are ready to graduate from the programme when the child is two years old. To be part of a 0-19 team, working within a locality leadership team to support Cambridgeshire Children & Young People’s Health Service delivery of the Healthy Child Programme to the highest possible standard. Main Duties and Responsibilities The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a national evidence-based programme. The aim of the programme is to improve the antenatal health, child health and development and parent’s economic self-sufficiency in disadvantaged young families. FNP is part of a wider Young Parent Pathway, and mentorship, training and supervision of others is an integral part of the Family Nurse role Role is responsible for delivering the FNP intensive, preventive home visiting programme to vulnerable, hard to reach young women who are expecting their first baby. The post holder will be required to develop high-level generalist and specialist skills to work within the clinical methods of the structured programme. Family Nurses will be expected to work flexibly and creatively to achieve the expected outcomes of the programme As a Family Nurse there is an expectation that you will provide leadership expertise within your locality and within the wider service and system and contribute to quality assurance and improvements Cambridgeshire is a large County and travel around the County is an expectation of this role Working with this client group may necessitate a degree of flexibility around working hours to meet the needs of the service users. Currently Children & Young People’s Services cover core working hours of 8am-5.30pm, Mon–Fri. Service core hours may be changed in response to service user needs. Communication Have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to relate to young parents. To be able to build and maintain therapeutic relationships whilst also having the ability to have difficult conversations with concern and care To be a supportive and engaged member of the team, celebrating each other’s successes, providing support and supervision, and challenging with professional curiosity where required. To be an advocate for the programme within the wider service, to stakeholders and other professionals, maintaining the ethos of FNP core principles at all times To be able to collate and analyse complex information from a variety of sources and communicate those verbally and in report form People Management You will be expected to provide leadership, training and supervision to the wider service and system You will be responsible for mentoring the Young Parent Nursery Nurses Research & Development Activity You will be required to contribute to quality assurance for the trust and the national unit and to lead on Quality Improvement projects Maintaining own professional development and requirement to take part in appraisal, KSF process and ongoing National Unit training Clinical and Practice Governance Observe and maintain strict confidentiality with regards to any patient/family/staff/records and information in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act Any data that is taken/shared as part of a phone call or transported, faxed, or transferred electronically must be undertaken with regard to the Trust Information Governance and Information Security policies The post holder must adhere to the Trust risk assessment and risk management processes The post holder must adhere to infection control policies and procedures It is a condition of your employment that you are currently registered with the NMC and it is your responsibility to maintain your professional registration Undertake mandatory training and any other training relevant to the role as required by Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust The post holder must participate in clinical and other audits as required Provide patients and their families /carers with information on standards they should expect from the team Participate in Clinical & Safeguarding supervision on a regular basis The post holder is required to participate in relevant emergency preparedness process for their team On April 1st 2026, Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust and Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust will come together to deliver services as a single Trust. Both trusts are high performing specialist community health and care providers working in the East of England. Both have a strong track record, with the highest ratings from the Care Quality Commission, best in class NHS staff survey outcomes, and a decade of experience in innovation and clinical development. The group model provides health and care services to a population of 3.2 million in their homes and neighbourhoods. We provide care that supports people from the very beginning to the very end of their lives. The specific role you are applying is with Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust and if you commence your employment before the 1 st of April you will transfer to the new organisation via TUPE - the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations. 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For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new tab) Our safe recruitment pre-employment checks are undertaken before an appointment is confirmed and may include a DBS check. Where the role requires you to drive, we'll ask you to validate your driving licence online via the DVLA. In submitting an application, you authorise Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed. ALL CORRESPONDENCE will be via the e-mail address on your application form. If you have not been invited to interview within 2 weeks of the closing date, you unfortunately haven’t been successful on this occasion, but keep an eye on our vacancies as a job that’s just right for you may appear!