Staff Nurse – Strengthening Families Team

Job description

Job responsibilities

Responsibility for planning, co-coordinating and reviewing own caseload in conjunction with the team. Ensuring that workload is appropriately prioritised and managed.

Ensure effective communication with babies, children, young people, parents, carers and others including those whose first language is not English, liaising with and co-ordinating interpreting services.

Undertake holistic health assessments and plan, implement and evaluate evidence based nursing care for individual babies, children, young people and their families.

Support the development, planning, implementation and evaluation of health education and promotion packages using evidence based materials and methods.

Where appropriate, contribute to multi agency processes to assess and develop care plans to support babies, children and young peoples health and wellbeing

Have a good knowledge of local services in health and partner agencies and where appropriate, liaise and refer a baby, child or young person to multi-disciplinary teams and other specialist services.

Where appropriate, take on the role of lead professional to coordinate delivery of care plans for children and young people e.g. Children on plans

Working in partnership with the multi-agency team provide clinical advice, information and support regarding babies, children and young people with long term conditions, disability or specific health problems to minimise negative impacts on their lives and promote health gain and social inclusion to the children, family and carers.

Support the development, planning, implementation and evaluation of health promoting activities with individuals and groups, utilising evidence-based materials and methods e.g. sexual health and relationships, emotional health, growth, healthy lifestyles

Develop and maintain effective communication networks and work collaboratively with key partners, health workers, statutory and voluntary agencies to actively promote national and local public health priorities

Plan, deliver and evaluate group work for children and young people and/or parents e.g. emotional Health groups, parenting groups

Plan, deliver and evaluate training sessions to early years settings, schools and other agencies.

Act as role model leading by example through practice with positive attitude and presentation.

Attend regular team and service meetings to give and receive relevant information and to maintain effective team working.

Provide mentorship to learners including, pre and post registration nurse and mentorship, supervision and support for members of the team as directed by Clinical Team Leader, commensurate with knowledge and skills.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered nurse children/ adults
• Demonstrable evidence of personal and professional development.
• Demonstrable evidence of working with babies, children and young people

Desirable

• Placement in school nursing or health visiting service within training
• Demonstratable experience of working with babies, children and young people who have been subject to safeguarding support

Skills

Essential

• Understands responsibility of working within teams
• Able to demonstrate clinically effective practice.
• Ability to apply clinical governance framework to clinical practice
• Understands and can demonstrate accountability.
• Effective communication skills both written and verbal with children, families and others.
• Ability to make timely, sound clinical judgments and assessments to deliver high quality client care.

Knowledge

Essential

• Detailed knowledge of health and social care policy relating to children's services
• Up-to-date knowledge of current Government and Local initiatives and how these translate into practice
• Demonstrates up-to-date evidence Community Nursing/Public Health.
• Knowledge of child health and 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.

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

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Across Walsall Beechdale Health Centre

Edison Road

Walsall

WS2 7EZ

Employer's website

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