Job overview
Bradford District Care Foundation Trust (BDCFT) Public Health Nursing, Children's Service are looking for Band 4 Community Nursery Nurses who are innovative, forward thinking, and passionate about making a difference for children, young people and their families.
We are pro-active public health practitioners who work within skill mixed teams, closely with children from 0-19 years and their family, to support them in making healthy lifestyle choices and accessing other specialist services to meet their health needs. The community nursery nurse will provide support to the school nurses and health visitors and undertake reviews, deliver packages of care and facilitate well-baby clinics/ drop-ins, showing commitment in the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme and ensuring our service delivery is of high quality and research based.
Main duties as outlined below will be dependent on the area placed.
Closing Date: 10th April 20234
Shortlisting Date: 12th April 2024
Interview date: 25h April 2024
Main duties of the job
Main duties will include:
1. Delivering a public health offer in primary schools/ nurseries.
2. Running and supporting drop-in sessions at the local family hubs/ schools.
3. Offering support/ information and/or delivering packages of care related to various topics, including continence, behaviour, sleep, behaviour, breast feeding, weaning, school readiness, maternal mood and child development and growth.
4. Completing development reviews in line with the Healthy Child Programme, assessing Child development and supporting onward referral to specialist services.
5. Work in conjunction with the school nurse, health visitor or staff nurse where required to assist in meeting the health needs of the child and family.
6. To liaise with the named school nurse/ health visitor regarding complex health needs or safeguarding concerns.
7. Ensure effective communication with the wider team, ensuring any work undertaken is communicated effectively to the named school nurse/ health visitor for the child/family.
Working for our organisation
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -
We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
Increase mileage rates for > 3500
A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be solution focused and adaptable to change and able to work both autonomously and part of an integrated skill mix team. You will possess good organisational skills and be able to support other team members to deliver mandated contacts and provide early, public health education and support to our service users. You will be able to form good working relationships with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and possess excellent communication skills.
The successful postholder will be positioned into either a school nurse or health visiting team and may be asked to work across both teams.
Please read the attached Job description and person the specification for more details about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
8. Diploma in Child Care and education (CACHE)
9. community nursery nurse experience
10. NNEB BTEC Diploma in early years
11. NVQ level 3 early years care and education (City and Guilds, EDEXCEL, OU)
Desirable criteria
12. Community nursing experience
13. Experience working with children and young people
skills
Essential criteria
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Desirable criteria
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Bradford District Care Trust is an award-winning Trust that provides a range of innovative services that have been recognised as best practice nationally. As a provider of care for people of all ages who have mental and/or community health needs we are dedicated to providing a high-quality service, close to where people live and as much as possible tailored to an individual’s needs.
The Trust’s purpose is to create connected communities and help people to feel as healthy as they can be at every point in their lives and our vision is to connect people to the best quality care, when and where they need it and be a national role model as an employer and provide our staff with the best place to work.
Bradford has been awarded the coveted status of UK City of Culture 2025. The year is set to deliver more than 1000 new performances and events including 365 artist commissions, a series of major arts festivals as well as exciting national and international collaborations. Its themes will be rooted in the unique heritage and character of Bradford and will reveal the magic of the district that is held in its people, its ambition, and above all, its potential.
We would welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health and care needs.
We welcome people from all backgrounds and in particular Bradford District Care Trust is keen to reflect the population we serve, we are currently underrepresented in terms of black and minority ethnic staff. Applications are encouraged from these groups, but it must be stressed that selection will be solely on merit and in accordance with the Trust recruitment policy.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.