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Family Nurse
The closing date is 19 February 2026
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 parents' economic self-sufficiency in disadvantaged young families.
This 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. Post holders 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 develop therapeutic relationships with clients and work intensively within complex family situations to achieve the expected outcomes of the programme.
This is a demanding specialist role requiring high levels of professional skills and practice and the ability to work as part of a team.
Main duties of the job
1. To recruit and engage eligible, hard-to-reach pregnant young women to the FNP programme.
2. To use 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.
3. To work therapeutically with a range of family members to promote behaviour change and positive outcomes for children and families.
4. 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.
5. Through 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 is implemented with fidelity. 6. 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.
About us
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) cares for the population in Harrogate and the local area, as well as across North Yorkshire, Leeds and parts of the North East.
At HDFT we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff and we value Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality. If you're looking for an interesting and rewarding career in the NHS, where you can make a real difference to patients' lives, HDFT could be the place for you!
We offer colleagues:
* A supportive culture so colleagues can bring their whole selves to work.
* Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise achievements with our Making a Difference & Team of the Month Awards, along with annual Colleague Recognition Awards.
* Employee Support and wellbeing - we offer a wide range of staff benefits including an Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and a fast-track Physiotherapy service.
Please note, visa sponsorship is only available for certain roles. Please ensure the role you are interested in meets the criteria for a visa before submitting your application.
Please also be aware that the Trust does not offer relocation packages for Agenda for Change roles.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification. If you have any questions, please contact Katrina Walker. Katrina.walker11@nhs.net
Person Specification
Qualifications, Skills and Experience
* Holding a nursing/midwifery qualification and being registered with NMC
* At least 2 years' experience of working with families in deprived communities
* At least 2 years' experience of midwifery, child health Of Clinical Supervision.
* Working with children and families.
* Able to develop supportive, trusting and respectful relationships
* Able to manage strong emotions, sensitive issues and undertake courageous conversations
* Experience of working with young people
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.
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum pro rata
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