Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - School Nurse
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We are looking to recruit a SCPHN School Nurse into our team covering West Northamptonshire.
Our School Nurses are qualified Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (SCPHN) who aim to meet the health needs of children and young people between the ages of 4-19. We work in schools, clinics and home settings carrying out a range of activities and interventions where a need has been identified. As a SCPHN we aim to identify local need within our population and implement changes to meet these health needs alongside building community capacity. We support vulnerable families and children within the safeguarding arena and work closely with other professionals to ensure that their needs are met. We cover a large geographical area and work as part of a skill mix team where you will work alongside Health Visitors, Community Nurses, Nursery Nurses, Healthy Child Practitioners and School Nurse Assistants. As a SCPHN, you will be a named caseload holder within a locality where you will demonstrate effective leadership skills whilst overseeing the clinical work within the skill mix team.
Role
The role of the school nurse is rich and varied, no two days are ever the same! As a clinical specialist and a leader in the skill mixed team you will triage new referrals, complete and delegate clinical assessments and short term interventions covering a range of wellbeing needs for children young people and families, including:
* Safeguarding
* Sleep
* Emotional Wellbeing
* Emotional and Behavioural Regulation ( we follow Emotion Coaching and the Solihull Approach)
* Continence
* Healthy weight, nutrition and physical activity
* Sexual Health and Healthy Relationships
You will offer drop-in clinics at secondary schools and use the themes emerging from those contacts with young people to inform and influence the school in relation to emerging needs, risks and opportunities for health improvement.
As a key safeguarding professional you will form effective partnerships and relationships with colleagues across the safeguarding MDT.
As a leader in your team you will support the training and development of new staff and students and support the continual development of the 0-19 service so that we can achieve our aims of helping children, young people and families to thrive. You will be required to offer clinical supervision to your team and be will required to complete additional training in order to provide safeguarding supervision to all staff across the Trust who work with children.
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tanya Watts Job title: 0-19 Public Health Matron Email address: tanya.watts@nhft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07500 886734
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Health Care Provider
* Industries
Hospitals and Health Care
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