SCPHN - School Nurse Vulnerable Team

Job description

Job responsibilities

To use public health knowledge and expertise to provide high quality, safe evidenced based care and interventions to the children, young people and their families

To provide clinical leadership support and professional direction within the skilled mixed team ensuring that high standards and safe levels of care are provided to children and young people

Work with partner agencies to identify and respond to the public health and wellbeing needs of children and young people within locality areas and borough wide to determine the priorities for action e.g. work with in Early Help localities, GP PCNs. Take into account local and national priorities

To lead on delivery of HCP 5-19 and high impact areas within the Inclusion Pathway. Developing, planning, delivering and evaluating programmes of work, working collaboratively with other health professionals and partner agencies, including the voluntary sector. This includes attendance at partnership meetings and dissemination of information to service.

Work as an autonomous practitioner within a multi-agency arena, applying your knowledge and expertise in health and wellbeing to enable children & young people to reach their full potential (physically emotionally and socially). This includes contributing to e.g. child protection procedures, early help support and looked after children

Within the scope of professional practice and using appropriate frameworks, take lead responsibility to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate the health needs of specific groups of children e.g., looked after children, children with medical needs, children in need of safeguarding or early help. In partnership with the child, young person and parents/carers agree care plans to improve health and wellbeing

To develop, implement and evaluate Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education pupils sessions for education settings.

To develop, implement and evaluate health education and promotion sessions for parents and carers to support them to promote their childs health & wellbeing

To develop, implement and evaluate training packages for education staff and staff in partner agencies to support children and young peoples health & wellbeing e.g. medical needs training, mental health training, RSE training.

Effectively manage a caseload and where appropriate, delegate care to non-registrants and maintain professional accountability for supervising that care

Promote team working at all times and act up, as directed in the absence of the clinical team leader. Provide line management duties for junior members of staff within your locality team e.g. 1-1s, PDR, caseload supervision.

Provide care in a range of variety of settings to include schools, clients home, clinics, community venues or other settings

To develop, implement, monitor and evaluate quality standards e.g. SOPs with School Nursing Practice and wider HCP, utilising the clinical governance framework to support the provision of a high quality, safe care. This includes contribution to reports for service monitoring e.g. commissioner reporting.

Provide pre, post registration student nurses and staff requiring induction, mentorship and preceptorship with relevant and suitable experiences within children, young people and families public health service, to include teaching and assessment throughout their placement.

To ensure personal and development requirements are achieved by:

Participate in annual PDRs and 1-1s

Continue to update knowledge and skills through lifelong learning approach

Attend mandatory training

Work with Trust policies and procedures.

Share knowledge, expertise, systems and good practice

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• First level registered nurse
• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Health) or Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visiting) with 'transfer of field of practice' for School Nursing or willing to undertake the course
• Evidence of additional qualification or demonstratable of development of knowledge/skills through experience in a specialist area of support e.g., young carers, asylum seekers, electively home educated.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Demonstrable evidence of professional development
• Demonstrable experience of planning, leading, delivering and evaluating public health interventions and programmes of care
• Experience of working with children and young people from marginalised groups or underrepresented groups e.g., young carers, electively home educated, asylum seekers, young people not in education or training

key competencies

Essential

• In-depth knowledge of child health of 5-19's and development
• In depth knowledge of child and family public health practice
• Knowledge of working with underrepresented groups e.g., young carers, electively home educated, asylum seekers, young people not in education or training

skills and aptitudes

Essential

• Ability to apply clinical governance framework to clinical practice
• Ability to make timely, sound clinical judgments and to work within a team and direct other team members to deliver high quality client care.

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

Brace street Health Centre - working across Walsall

Brace Street

Walsall

WS1 3PS

Employer's website

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