Job summary
The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a national evidence-based early intervention programme. The aim of the programme is to improve the antenatal health, child health and development outcomes along with improvements to parents' economic self-sufficiency in disadvantaged young families. A unique opportunity has arisen in the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust FNP team for either an experienced Family Nurse or an experienced Registered Nurse/Midwife with high level generalist and specialist skills.
Family nurses will be expected to develop therapeutic relationships with clients and work intensively within complex family situations to achieve the expected outcomes of the programme. This is a demanding specialist role requiring high levels of professional skills and practice and the ability to work as part of a team.
Are you a passionate advocate for teenage parents who is inclusive, brave, open to challenge, and purposeful? Are you committed to working in a cohesive team, with clear and shared values? If so, this job is for you and we would welcome your application.
Main duties of the job
- To recruit and engage eligible, hard-to-reach pregnant young women to the FNP programme.
- To use programme materials and methods in the clients' homes in order to achieve the following;
- improve the outcomes of pregnancy,
- improve children's health and development by enabling
parents to provide more sensitive and competent care
- improve parental life-course by helping parents plan future
pregnancies, complete their education, and find work.
- To work therapeutically with a range of family members to promote behaviour change and positive outcomes for children and families.
- To take a lead professional role when required where children and young people with additional needs require an integrated package of support from more than one practitioner/service.
- Through continuous monitoring and engagement in reflective supervision, to ensure that expertise in clinical methods are developed and maintained, that the service offered is of high quality and the programme is implemented with fidelity.
- To work in collaboration with local statutory and mainstream services to ensure that families become confident in accessing a range of other universal health and support services and are ready to graduate from the programme when the child is two years old.
About us
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Family Nurse will:
- Undertake home visits in accordance with FNP model
- Use high level interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive information. Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change strategies.
- Use the FNP New Mums Star as a framework for programme delivery
- Utilise the Intimate Partner Violence Clinical Pathway as a strengths-based framework that is grounded in an understanding of and responsiveness to the impact of trauma, that emphasises physical, psychological, and emotional safety for both providers and survivors, and that creates opportunities for survivors to rebuild a sense of control and empowerment
- Utilise specialist knowledge acquired through the FNP learning programme, events and other study, together with reflections on experience, to deliver the FNP programme effectively.
- Work effectively in potentially highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g. safeguarding children or family breakdown.
- Develop therapeutic relationships, requiring in-depth mental attention and concentration for extended periods, and promote adaptive behaviour change in the family home and other environments.
- Use professional and clinical judgement to undertake detailed assessments of clients and their families and analyse complex family situations in order to develop appropriate clinical interventions.
- Actively engage and work with fathers and other members of the extended family to achieve positive outcomes for children.
- Apply knowledge and skills to a range of clinical and family situations.
- Work within the FNP model to initiate, plan and co-ordinate clients care in consultation and collaboration with other professionals and agencies involved in providing services to women and their families. This includes initiating EHAF and taking lead professional role where required.
- At all times keep the safety of the baby and the young person in mind, and work within local safeguarding policies as appropriate.
- Act on own interpretation of assessed clinical situation within the home setting. Able to refer client onto other specialist services as required on own authority.
- Contribute to the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme (HCP), including professional assessments of childrens growth, development and language skills.
- Deliver the Knowledge and Skills Framework positively and effectively and represent the vision and principles of the FNP programme in actions and communications to internal and external clients, stakeholders and services.
- Manage own workload by working independently within appropriate occupational guidelines, referring to FNP Lead where appropriate.
- Act on own interpretation of assessed clinical situation within the home setting. Able to refer client onto other specialist services as required on own authority.
- Visit clients over a wide geographical area and within flexible working hours within the hours of 8-6. This may include following families across districts to enable them to continue to benefit from the programme.
- Propose changes to working practices or procedures for own work area as role evolves.
- Complete full, accurate and contemporaneous records.
- Create regular reports on local site replication performance for the programme board.
- Analyse reports on data for service development and develop quality improvement measures to assure data quality, completeness and accuracy, as well as improvements in programme delivery.
- Develop systems for user involvement and support clients to offer feedback on the service received, integrating this into local or national improvement measures.
- Develop local procedures for FNP, taking into account FNP National Unit guidance.
- Be aware of, inform and abide by, provider services approved policies, standards and quality assurance initiatives.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Family Nurse will:
- Undertake home visits in accordance with FNP model
- Use high level interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive information. Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change strategies.
- Use the FNP New Mums Star as a framework for programme delivery
- Utilise the Intimate Partner Violence Clinical Pathway as a strengths-based framework that is grounded in an understanding of and responsiveness to the impact of trauma, that emphasises physical, psychological, and emotional safety for both providers and survivors, and that creates opportunities for survivors to rebuild a sense of control and empowerment
- Utilise specialist knowledge acquired through the FNP learning programme, events and other study, together with reflections on experience, to deliver the FNP programme effectively.
- Work effectively in potentially highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g. safeguarding children or family breakdown.
- Develop therapeutic relationships, requiring in-depth mental attention and concentration for extended periods, and promote adaptive behaviour change in the family home and other environments.
- Use professional and clinical judgement to undertake detailed assessments of clients and their families and analyse complex family situations in order to develop appropriate clinical interventions.
- Actively engage and work with fathers and other members of the extended family to achieve positive outcomes for children.
- Apply knowledge and skills to a range of clinical and family situations.
- Work within the FNP model to initiate, plan and co-ordinate clients care in consultation and collaboration with other professionals and agencies involved in providing services to women and their families. This includes initiating EHAF and taking lead professional role where required.
- At all times keep the safety of the baby and the young person in mind, and work within local safeguarding policies as appropriate.
- Act on own interpretation of assessed clinical situation within the home setting. Able to refer client onto other specialist services as required on own authority.
- Contribute to the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme (HCP), including professional assessments of childrens growth, development and language skills.
- Deliver the Knowledge and Skills Framework positively and effectively and represent the vision and principles of the FNP programme in actions and communications to internal and external clients, stakeholders and services.
- Manage own workload by working independently within appropriate occupational guidelines, referring to FNP Lead where appropriate.
- Act on own interpretation of assessed clinical situation within the home setting. Able to refer client onto other specialist services as required on own authority.
- Visit clients over a wide geographical area and within flexible working hours within the hours of 8-6. This may include following families across districts to enable them to continue to benefit from the programme.
- Propose changes to working practices or procedures for own work area as role evolves.
- Complete full, accurate and contemporaneous records.
- Create regular reports on local site replication performance for the programme board.
- Analyse reports on data for service development and develop quality improvement measures to assure data quality, completeness and accuracy, as well as improvements in programme delivery.
- Develop systems for user involvement and support clients to offer feedback on the service received, integrating this into local or national improvement measures.
- Develop local procedures for FNP, taking into account FNP National Unit guidance.
- Be aware of, inform and abide by, provider services approved policies, standards and quality assurance initiatives.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Nursing or midwifery qualifications and registered with the NMC
- Degree level or equivalent professional qualification
- Willingness to undertake specialist post graduate training and be assessed on competence in clinical field following training
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working with families in deprived communities
- Significant experience of midwifery, child health, public health, home visiting
- Of clinical supervision
- Working with children & families
Desirable
- Working with young people
Knowledge
Essential
- Understand the difference between advice giving and motivational approaches
- Has some knowledge of the research base of FNP
- Willingness to undertake personal study to develop understanding of a range of clinical areas
- National and local safeguarding policies
Desirable
- Attachment theory
- Self-efficacy theory
- Human ecology theory
- Behavioural change theory
- arent/infant mental health
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Nursing or midwifery qualifications and registered with the NMC
- Degree level or equivalent professional qualification
- Willingness to undertake specialist post graduate training and be assessed on competence in clinical field following training
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working with families in deprived communities
- Significant experience of midwifery, child health, public health, home visiting
- Of clinical supervision
- Working with children & families
Desirable
- Working with young people
Knowledge
Essential
- Understand the difference between advice giving and motivational approaches
- Has some knowledge of the research base of FNP
- Willingness to undertake personal study to develop understanding of a range of clinical areas
- National and local safeguarding policies
Desirable
- Attachment theory
- Self-efficacy theory
- Human ecology theory
- Behavioural change theory
- arent/infant mental health
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).
