Job overview
The Specialist CommunityPublic Health Nurse School Nurse will work as part of the 0-19 team delivering a high quality, pro-active service for children, young people and their families. The aim of the service is to achieve equity of health outcomes for the local population through the provision of evidence based and needs led service. The post holder will contribute to the identification and assessment of child and family health needs and the delivery of a universal core service, targeted interventions and public health interventions to children and their families within a defined locality.
Main duties of the job
Using their clinical judgement and risk assessments to keep the people using our services as safe as possible
Safeguarding people by recognising and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse but also recognising their own limits and asking for help and escalate concerns when necessary
Escalating safety concerns and by doing so acting as effective advocates for those who use our services
Being open and transparent about their own practice
Supervising the work of others
Reflecting on everyday practice to identify areas where improvements in safety or quality can be made
Working with others to create a culture of continuous improvement
Maintaining accurate, legible, comprehensive records
Maintaining compliance with their mandatory training requirements.
Working for our organisation
Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all School Nurses (Specialist Community Public Health Nurses) to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their families and carers and also other staff members.
We expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better
We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic
We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs
We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for ourwork
As a specialist practitioner we expect you to role model these values and contribute to ensuring that they are embedded in the practice of the team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Leadership
•To act as a role model for nursing colleagues and the wider skill mix team.
•To participate in school nursing team activity through the duty system.
•To participate in skill mix staff appraisal and performance development planning process, identifying training needs of team members, in conjunction with the team leader.
•To help identify learning opportunities for team members
•To participate in the professional supervision of skill mix team members, ensuring standards are maintained and poor performance is addressed appropriately.
•To act as a role model and motivate team colleagues to deliver a responsive service
Vaccination
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
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