SCPHN School Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. To work in partnership with educational staff, health care professionals and other agencies to provide advice and support to children & young people, their parents and carers as required.2. Undertake appropriate training / updates related to public health issues in order to contribute towards meeting local and national Department of Health targets such as immunisations, teenage pregnancy & sexual health, smoking cessation and obesity.3. To carry out training sessions to other professionals on relevant health or medical issues and where appropriate, assist children and young people to manage their own health conditions independently.4. To undertake agreed health assessments on children & young people and ensure referrals, treatments and reviews are carried out as recommended and in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.5. To develop high quality packages of care for children & young people with medical needs, in partnership with other health professionals, education, parents & carers & other agencies as necessary.6. To be responsible for identifying children & young people requiring medical follow-up planning.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• RGN [NMC Registered] / RSCN Child Branch
• Specialist Practitioner Community Public Health Nurse (School Nursing or Children's Community Nursing)

Desirable

• Evidence of Continual Professional development
• Mentorship Preparation or equivalent
• Public Health Nursing (Children & Families)
• Sexual health (or equivalent)
• School Nurse Certificate

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with children in a professional capacity
• Working with families who have experienced trauma
• Proven post nursing registration experience
• Working with diverse communities
• Evidence to support experience of audit activity

Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of quality issues, the audit process and clinical governance.
• Knowledge of children with long term medical needs
• Understanding of the public health role of the school nurse
• Understanding of Equality & Valuing Diversity
• Knowledge of key documents and drivers informing school nursing practice

Skills

Essential

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
• Good computer literacy skills
• Ability to communicate in an effective way with people from a variety of backgrounds and different ages. Ability to demonstrate an understanding of team working

Desirable

• Ability to demonstrate essential leadership skills
• Ability to reflect on clinical practice and to understand own limitations when dealing with emotive issues
• Ability to act as a mentor / preceptor to students and newly recruited colleagues

Abilities

Essential

• Aware of own limitations and seek support from wider Team when dealing with highly emotive circumstances.
• Ability to manage difficult situations and conflict resolution

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Gospel Oak Health Centre

5 Lismore Circus

London

NW5 4RA

Employer's website

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)