Project Worker 1 - Community Nursery Nurse
Barking and Dagenham Children and Families Health Service (Universal 0-19).
NELFT delivers the Healthy Child Programme in partnership with Barnardo's.
We are seeking a passionate, dynamic and experienced Community Nursery nurse to join our service.
Our teams are fully integrated consisting of Health Visitors, School Nurses, Community Staff nurses, Clinical Support Workers, Community Nursery Nurses and Administrators.
If you want to make a difference to families within the community then this role is for you?
Nursery Nurse role
1. To work with families using a variety of interventions, to identify needs and to achieve positive outcomes. Delivered in family homes, clinics, family hubs and schools.
2. To work with parents/carers providing support on nutrition and development
3. To work co-operatively with children's services, Education, health agencies and other community-based services.
4. Undertake developmental and health reviews of children and young people at key stages of their life.
5. To work within a fully integrated health team, being target focused on ensuring that the most vulnerable children can access our support.
6. To work one to one with families within the family home and clinic setting.
7. Community Nursery Nurses to work alongside local schools offering drop-in advice sessions.
Skills required for working in an integrated team
8. To work in an empowering way to develop self-confidence, self-esteem and emotional wellbeing within families.
9. To work autonomously whilst still remaining part of the team.
10. To work with community partners such as schools and family hubs in the delivery of local services within Barking and Dagenham.
11. To work in line with both NELFT & Barnardo's policies & procedures
12. To promote both NELFT & Barnardo's values
Visit to see the great work that is already happening within Barking and Dagenham.
Essential requirements for the role
13. Qualification mandatory for practice - NVQ Level 3/NNEB (Modules to have covered Child Development)
14. Enhanced DBS for working with vulnerable children
15. Experience of working with children and young people within community/care settings
16. Able to establish a rapport and build respectful, trusting, honest and supportive relationships
17. Able to observe and recognise child, young person or family's behaviour, understand its context and respond to concerns about developmental or behavioural changes.
18. This role is based in Barking and Dagenham, the Community Nursery Nurse will be required to move around the borough as directed by Team Leaders.
If you feel you have the skills to support our service then please do apply, completing your application with as much details as you can and include any relevant qualifications.
For further details regarding this position please contact: Service Manager, Emma Colby () we look forward to receiving your application.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's . We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.
19. Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
20. Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
21. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
22. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
23. Service related sick pay from day 1
24. Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
25. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
26. Cycle2work scheme
27. Interest free season ticket loans
28. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
29. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
30. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
31. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
32. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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