Job summary
Are you a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse)?
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our leadership team in the innovative and progressive School Nursing Service in Gloucestershire. Are you dynamic and motivated? Do you have the passion to be a leader and to inspire colleagues in the specialist field of public health nursing; working with children and young people to improve their health? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, apply for a role in our growing workforce. We have vacancies in 3 of our teams, North (Tewkesbury and Cheltenham), East (Cotswolds and Stroud) and Gloucester city. What we do;
We work in collaboration with children and young people developing services that they want.
We provide mobile working with laptops and electronic records, enabling place based and digital first interventions.
We use ChatHealth in response to requests of young people and families.
We take a trauma informed approach to planning and delivering care, working in partnership with children, young people and families ensuring shared decision making and goal setting.
We work in skill-mixed teams ensuring the right person is offering the care/interventions that are needed.
We provide a robust leadership structure ensuring all colleagues are supported with the SCPHN taking the lead in triage and allocation of workload.
Main duties of the job
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
We can offer:
Diverse work leading a skill-mixed team developed through robust competency frameworks
Induction and Preceptorship programmes to underpin transition into role
Managerial, Clinical Supervision and Safeguarding Supervision is available to support professional practice and development.
Health and wellbeing of ourselves and our colleagues is important. Working for our NHS Foundation Trust offers many staff benefits and the School Nursing Service supports the mental and emotional wellbeing of all colleagues.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
About us
We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.
The annual NHS Staff Surveygives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:
- 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
- 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
- 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
- 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative
Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide a holistic health assessment with vulnerable children, offer advice, support and interventions where necessary to address unmet health needs and improve outcomes for the child and family.
Work collaboratively with children, young people and their families with a trauma informed approach, with the knowledge and understanding of ACES that may be impacting the childs health.
To lead on cases for safeguarding; Children in need of Protection, A&E referrals; Children in Need and others deemed vulnerable applying professional curiosity where needed.
Provide advice, support and professional challenge at multi-agency meetings
Work in partnership with members of the multidisciplinary team and statutory and voluntary agencies in planning, delivering and evaluating care to improve outcomes for service users.
Be proactive in identifying and referring children and families where assessment identifies evidence of physical, sexual, emotional abuse or neglect.
Promote a high uptake of immunisation and vaccination programs and administer when required within public health immunisation campaigns.
Maintain accurate, factual and contemporaneous records in line with NMC guidelines and local policy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide a holistic health assessment with vulnerable children, offer advice, support and interventions where necessary to address unmet health needs and improve outcomes for the child and family.
Work collaboratively with children, young people and their families with a trauma informed approach, with the knowledge and understanding of ACES that may be impacting the childs health.
To lead on cases for safeguarding; Children in need of Protection, A&E referrals; Children in Need and others deemed vulnerable applying professional curiosity where needed.
Provide advice, support and professional challenge at multi-agency meetings
Work in partnership with members of the multidisciplinary team and statutory and voluntary agencies in planning, delivering and evaluating care to improve outcomes for service users.
Be proactive in identifying and referring children and families where assessment identifies evidence of physical, sexual, emotional abuse or neglect.
Promote a high uptake of immunisation and vaccination programs and administer when required within public health immunisation campaigns.
Maintain accurate, factual and contemporaneous records in line with NMC guidelines and local policy.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc in Nursing (or equivalent)
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse).
- Skills for teaching and assessing in clinical practice ENB 998/FLAP or equivalent (or equivalent)
- Child Protection training above foundation level.
- Evidence of continued Professional Development.
- NMC registration at level 1 and 3
Desirable
- Family Planning Qualification or willingness to undertake appropriate training - PGD/Sexual Health training.
- Continence training
LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Knowledge and clear understanding of the Public Health Agenda for School Nursing.
- Specialist knowledge and understanding of local GCSP and National Child Protection Guidelines
- Experience of working across agencies
- Understanding and experience of the application of research in practice
- Experience in identifying and assessing health needs including community health needs
Attributes
Essential
- Desire to improve quality care
- Demonstrates leadership behaviours
- Ability to challenge in a professional manner
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc in Nursing (or equivalent)
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse).
- Skills for teaching and assessing in clinical practice ENB 998/FLAP or equivalent (or equivalent)
- Child Protection training above foundation level.
- Evidence of continued Professional Development.
- NMC registration at level 1 and 3
Desirable
- Family Planning Qualification or willingness to undertake appropriate training - PGD/Sexual Health training.
- Continence training
LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Knowledge and clear understanding of the Public Health Agenda for School Nursing.
- Specialist knowledge and understanding of local GCSP and National Child Protection Guidelines
- Experience of working across agencies
- Understanding and experience of the application of research in practice
- Experience in identifying and assessing health needs including community health needs
Attributes
Essential
- Desire to improve quality care
- Demonstrates leadership behaviours
- Ability to challenge in a professional manner
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).
