Job summary
An exciting opportunity has risen for highly motivated Band 5 nurses permanent (Term time only) to join our friendly and dynamic School Health Service Team which is responsible for the delivery of immunisations to school aged children as part of the national vaccination programme.
The team is looking for enthusiastic and motivated nurses who are passionate about the delivery of the immunisation programme. It is desirable that the candidates have experience of working with children in the community setting with good understanding of public health. The successful candidates will need to have the ability to work autonomously and as part of an integral skill-mix team. The busy team delivers vaccinations to designated cohorts of school age children in schools and other community settings throughout the academic calendar- vaccinations include Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), Diptheria/Tetanus/Polio booster, Meningitis ACWY, MMR and Childhood Flu in schools and community weekend Saturday clinics.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will need to have the ability to work autonomously and as part of an integral skill-mix team. The busy team delivers vaccinations to designated cohorts of school age children in schools and other community settings throughout the academic calendar- vaccinations include Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), Diptheria/Tetanus/Polio booster, Meningitis ACWY, MMR and Childhood Flu.
- Deliver high quality of service delivery to children and young people.
- Engage in effective team working
- Support communication across professions developing working partnerships.
- Provide support and advice to all children and families including those with special needs/circumstances
- Record and monitor health promotion programmes using the quality assurance framework.
- Deliver a high Quality, equitable service to children/young people based on need in accordance with the National service framework for
Children and Young people, Every child matters, Choosing health and Lewisham Children and young people's plan 2009-2016.
About us
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
As an organisation, we've made significant improvements for patients and staff in the last two and-a-half years. This is reflected in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection (from February 2020), which found improvements across the organisation and gave us an improved rating of "Good" in the Well-Led and Effective domains, in addition to the rating of "Good" that we had already achieved in the Caring domain. Our staff culture change programme has been key to the Trust's improvement journey, as we've stabilised our workforce by reducing vacancy rates and improving staff retention.
We will offer the right candidate a warm and friendly welcome with a full induction programme and ongoing support, training and development to further advance your skills and career.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will be a member of a multi skilled school nurse team working with colleagues to provide a public health focussed needs-led equitable service to children and young people in Lewisham. The service is delivered using corporate caseload load approach. S/he will be guided by the Team Manager and will work with colleagues across education and social care. S/he will support junior members of staff. S/he will provide health promotion programmes to schools as outlined in the services core objectives. S/he will work closely with School staff, Community Paediatricians, health visitors and GPs as well as other professionals and agencies. S/he will record and monitor services delivered and report back to the Team Leader. She will take responsibility for developing care plans for children with specific health care needs with support and guidance from the Team Leader and special needs nursing team. Attend child protection conferences. The post holder will support the service in the delivery of the HPV and other immunisations, health promotion programmes and other areas of service delivery in the school and community setting. Also support across the service in the Screening and Universal Team with National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) and Safeguarding team E.G Child Protection meeting, Core Group and Health assessment and LAC reviews
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will be a member of a multi skilled school nurse team working with colleagues to provide a public health focussed needs-led equitable service to children and young people in Lewisham. The service is delivered using corporate caseload load approach. S/he will be guided by the Team Manager and will work with colleagues across education and social care. S/he will support junior members of staff. S/he will provide health promotion programmes to schools as outlined in the services core objectives. S/he will work closely with School staff, Community Paediatricians, health visitors and GPs as well as other professionals and agencies. S/he will record and monitor services delivered and report back to the Team Leader. She will take responsibility for developing care plans for children with specific health care needs with support and guidance from the Team Leader and special needs nursing team. Attend child protection conferences. The post holder will support the service in the delivery of the HPV and other immunisations, health promotion programmes and other areas of service delivery in the school and community setting. Also support across the service in the Screening and Universal Team with National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) and Safeguarding team E.G Child Protection meeting, Core Group and Health assessment and LAC reviews
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- RGN and /or RSCN RN child Branch degree/diploma
- Evidence of Professional knowledge about nursing services for the school aged population
Desirable
- ENB 998
- Health Promotion training
- Mentorship training
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience in working with children, and in school nursing.
- Experience in safeguarding children.
- Experience in attending case conferences, child in need meetings, completing health assessments and reports to this regard.
- Ability to complete a LAC assessment.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing in an effective way with people from a variety of backgrounds and different ages
- Good organisational skills
- Able to prioritise
- Awareness of the role of the school nurse
- Knowledge of the DH drivers for the delivery of a public health service for the school age population. Eg. Childhood measurement programme Healthy weight healthy lives Every child Matters Understand "Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives" strategy.
- Local influences in Lewisham e.g Children and Young people's plan 2009-15 Aware of NMC code of conduct
- Willing to participate in developing professional / practice guidelines and standards
- Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively
- Recent previous experience within a comparable role
- Competent IT skills - including use of email
- Excellent interpersonal skills and good communication skills, including with children and young people
- Able to present information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner
- Ability to work contracted hours
Desirable
- Group working skills
- Health promotion skills /Health promotion course
- Working in enuresis clinic
- Delivering training to school staff on Managing children with health conditions in the school.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- RGN and /or RSCN RN child Branch degree/diploma
- Evidence of Professional knowledge about nursing services for the school aged population
Desirable
- ENB 998
- Health Promotion training
- Mentorship training
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience in working with children, and in school nursing.
- Experience in safeguarding children.
- Experience in attending case conferences, child in need meetings, completing health assessments and reports to this regard.
- Ability to complete a LAC assessment.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing in an effective way with people from a variety of backgrounds and different ages
- Good organisational skills
- Able to prioritise
- Awareness of the role of the school nurse
- Knowledge of the DH drivers for the delivery of a public health service for the school age population. Eg. Childhood measurement programme Healthy weight healthy lives Every child Matters Understand "Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives" strategy.
- Local influences in Lewisham e.g Children and Young people's plan 2009-15 Aware of NMC code of conduct
- Willing to participate in developing professional / practice guidelines and standards
- Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively
- Recent previous experience within a comparable role
- Competent IT skills - including use of email
- Excellent interpersonal skills and good communication skills, including with children and young people
- Able to present information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner
- Ability to work contracted hours
Desirable
- Group working skills
- Health promotion skills /Health promotion course
- Working in enuresis clinic
- Delivering training to school staff on Managing children with health conditions in the school.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
