Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) - Swanwick Lodge

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main role functions:

* To provide leadership in the delivery of public and physical health programmes and interventions for young people and health and social care staff, ensuring a safe and effective service, using service user feedback to improve young people's experience and monitoring quality, compliance and performance reporting risks by exception to the Service Manager.

* To lead and co-ordinate the CHAT assessment for young people on entry to the service and contribute to care planning and psychological formulation, working with the young person, health and care providers.

* To be responsible for monitoring the care planning and review assessments using a multi-disciplinary approach focussing on the individual needs of the young person.

* To participate in the secure children's home SECURE STAIRS approach using the Trauma Recovery Model to support interventions.

* To develop and deliver PSHE programmes in partnership with education and social care staff, making every contact count and ensuring consistency in health messaging across the setting.

* To be the named link to local Primary Care services and develop integrated working with agencies, statutory and non-statutory, within the locality. This will include GP, Education, Substance Misuse, Immunisations Team, Dentist, Optician and Sexual Health Services as well as Health and Well-being Boards and Locality Children's Partnerships.

* To work with the Safeguarding Children's Team to ensure that the service delivered meets the requirements of the national and local safeguarding agenda, and to jointly agree and report on areas of risk and to participate in and provide safeguarding supervision to team members.

Key Outcomes:

Provision of effective clinical leadership, health assessment and interventions for young people and supervision to the team which promotes high performance standards both individually and as a team, in the achievement of the service objectives and Trust values. Provision of a quality service to young people and their families including staff and service user engagement which shapes current and future service provision. To develop a public health strategy as a shared health culture within the whole setting in partnership with the health and care teams.

Key Deliverables

* To use information to analyse and identify the health needs of the individual young people and to ensure delivery of the public health programmes and interventions are tailored to meet those needs to improve the required outcomes for young people.

* To ensure a suitable structure is in place within teams for appropriate delegation of caseload management and supervision of staff.

* To identify opportunities for innovation in local multi-agency working in delivery of the Healthy Child Programme service offer.

* To lead local service transformation and integration with internal and external partners and services.

* To ensure that services provided are to the required Trust quality and standard and in accordance with the service standards assessing and raising risks to the service manager.

* To manage incident reporting via the Trust incident-reporting system and to report trends, develop action plans and report at the monthly quality and safety meeting.

* To investigate service complaints and implement any recommendations resulting from the investigation ensuring a 'lessons learnt' culture.

* To ensure that the training needs for workforce development are identified as part of the appraisal system and that these inform the service training plan to ensure the team and care staff are appropriately skilled and trained in order to deliver effective services.

* To ensure electronic record and data-collection system is used appropriately and effectively to record and manage information to support service delivery and report on Key Performance Indicators to the service manager.

* To support the development and implementation of the service and divisional business plan and clinical strategy to ensure that developments within the services are consistent with national, local and Trust strategy and objectives.

* To ensure adherence to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and registration renewal requirements and all Trust policies and guidelines.

Leadership and Management Responsibilities

* To anticipate identify and report workforce pressures and risks within the team and develop action plans to mitigate risk to service delivery.

* To utilise training, development and the appraisal process to ensure all staff have access to appropriate learning opportunities and undertake statutory and mandatory training as required by the organisation.

* To manage performance, sickness and attendance in accordance with Trust policies and guidelines, utilising e-rostering and working with HR to improve attendance and performance.

* To participate in recruitment and deployment of staff in accordance with policy and workforce plans to meet service need.

* To ensure that the service budget is used effectively and work with the service manager to achieve cost efficiencies and savings.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• *Registered Nurse (Adult, Child, MH or LD).
• *BSc or equivalent Specialist Community Public Health Nurse; Health Visiting / School Nursing.
• *Non-medical prescribing or willingness to undergo training.
• *Evidence of ongoing professional development.

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.

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

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Swanwick Lodge

Glen Road, off Swanwick Lane

Southampton

Hampshire

SO31 7HD

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)