**INTERNAL MPFT APPS ONLY* Community Public Health Nurse- School Nurse

Job summary

**INTERNAL MPFT APPLICATIONS ONLY**

Band 6 Specialist Community Public Health Nurse- School Nurse

We have an exciting opportunity for a School Nurse to join the 0-19 Families Health and Wellbeing Service (FHWS), Cannock and Rugeley team.

This is a 0.6 WTE (22.5 hours), all year round, permanent position.

We are looking for a highly motivated, innovative School Nurse to join our team, working as part of the 0-19 FHWS to deliver universal preventative health care through the Healthy Child Programme. This role has a strong public health focus, supporting the physical, emotional and social wellbeing of children, young people and their families.

As a School Nurse, you will work across a variety of settings, including Health Centres, Schools and Family hubs across the Cannock and Rugeley area.

Main duties of the job

• Be competent as appropriate to the requirements of role
• Work within their scope of practice
• Demonstrate at all times the Values of Midlands Partnership
• Be a Specialist Community Public Health Practitioner. They will be a specialist practitioner and have a focus in public health across the 0-19 agenda.
• Be responsible for a defined population of service users in a variety of settings across the Partnership Trust.
• Be skilled in the assessment of children and young people's care/support needs and in the development, implementation and evaluation of care/support
• Have supervisory, training and leadership responsibilities where appropriate and will have some responsibility for team performance and service developments/improvements.
• Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions
• Work with the team leader undertaking delegated tasks in team management
• To deliver commissioned aspects of the Healthy Child Programme, ensuring key objectives and outcomes are met.

Please see attached JD and personal specification for further details regarding this post.

About us

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning organisation with over 9000 employees. We are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers, covering services across North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Isle of Wight and Essex.

We pride ourselves on the services provided to support with the well-being of all of our employees both physically and mentally and offer counselling support and lifestyle information. Opportunities for flexible working are also available depending on the role.

We encourage career development provided by in house training programs and coaching support.

Demonstrating our strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, and in context of our objective aligned to the growth of diversity across the workforce; we are particularly seeking applications from individuals who may be from under-represented groups, such as black, Asian or other ethnic groups, individuals with a disability, or LGBTQ+ individuals who meet the specific criteria.

We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.