Overview
This is a rewarding opportunity to play a key role in delivering preventative and supportive health care to children, young people, and their families, helping to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities across the community. We are seeking a motivated and compassionate Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) to join our dynamic Public Health Nursing team. As a registered nurse with specialist public health training, the post holder will work with a defined population under the supervision of a Healthy Family Team Leader, contributing to the planning and delivery of the Healthy Child Programme. The role has a strong public health focus, supporting the physical, emotional, and social wellbeing of children and families through early intervention, health promotion, and safeguarding practice.
Responsibilities
* Delivery of the Healthy Child Programme at all four levels
* Day-to-day operational line management and supervision of the School Staff Nurses and Support Staff
* Day-to-day caseload management of work for School Staff Nurses and Support Staff, helping them to plan, prioritise, evaluate and delegating and allocating work as appropriate
* Appropriate delegation of work to others in the multidisciplinary team
* Act as a mentor to pre-registration and post-registration students as appropriate and be involved in organising allocation of student nurses
* Participate in preceptorship of junior/new members of the team while acting as a mentor
* To work in collaboration with health care and other service providers, including Head Teachers, to ensure seamless delivery of services for school-age children
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
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