School Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

To be responsible for leading and delivering the Healthy Child Programme against the 6 early and school aged years high impact areas, ensuring services are provided within the tiered model approach building community capacity, universal, universal plus and universal partnership plus. To be professionally accountable and responsible and adhere to and apply the NMC standard.

Making Every Contact Count to enable the opportunistic delivery of consistent and concise healthy lifestyle information.

Work with parents and children to promote the physical, emotional and social development of pre-school and school aged children. To apply the principles of the Solihull approach in all work undertaken with children, young people and families.

The post holder will ensure inter-agency/professional partnership working between services, statutory and voluntary organisations to facilitate integrated approaches in meeting the needs of children.

Working in an integrated way partnership with local communities to build community capacity; utilising strength-based approaches.

Hold a caseload of families with school aged children and young people, providing specialist evidence based advice, information and support to the population served, team members and relevant agencies. Lead and Deliver the Healthy Child Programme with a drive towards reducing the gap in health and social health inequalities.

Lead and deliver the Healthy Child Programme including the 6 school aged years high impact areas to all school age children and their families with a drive towards reducing the gap in health and social health inequalities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse.
• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse Qualification (School Nursing).
• Highly developed specialist knowledge relevant to working with children and families underpinned by theory.

Desirable

• Qualification at post graduate diploma level or equivalent.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of partnership working.
• Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams.
• Sound knowledge and experience of promoting the safeguarding and wellbeing of children.
• Influencing and negotiating skills.

Desirable

• Experience in leading teams in the provision of health services to children, young people and families.

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

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ashington Childrens Centre

Alexandra Rd

Ashington

NE63 9EF

Employer's website

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