Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the
Waltham Forest FNP team within Tower Hamlets GP Care
Group.
The
successful candidate will lead a pilot trial within the FNP programme, working
with vulnerable first-time mothers over the age of 24, alongside delivering the
core FNP programme to young first-time mothers.
As this is a
home-visiting programme, the post-holder will be required to provide
face-to-face contacts in the community and must be willing to work throughout
the entire Waltham Forest borough.
The
post-holder will be required to develop high-level general and specialist
skills, applying the clinical methods of the structured programme. As this is a
demanding role, the candidate must have strong caseload management skills,
excellent time management, and the ability to work safely and autonomously. The
post-holder must also be confident in following escalation procedures and
exercising professional judgment in complex situations.
As a
Family Nurse, you will establish therapeutic relationships with clients,
working intensively with complex family situations to achieve the programmes
expected outcomes. This is a specialist role requiring a high level of
professional expertise, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work
collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
The successful candidate will have to be able to access FNP foundation training, a residential week long course.
Main duties of the job
- Recruiting and engaging hard-to-reach pregnant women
- Delivering intensive home visiting support
- Working therapeutically with families to drive behaviour change
- Managing an autonomous caseload and acting as lead professional when required
- Understanding and prioritising data Collection, KPIs, and service improvement
- Collaborating with multi-agency partners and preparing families for programme graduation
About us
Tower Hamlets
GP Care Group (the Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company
limited by shares in September 2014.
Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care
Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices,
deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the
provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.
Read up more about Tower Hamlets here:http://www.towerhamlets.is/
The Care
Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated
partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the
London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.
The key priorities for the Care Group are:
- Innovation
and support for primary care
- Being
a great place to work
- Integrating
primary and community care
- Providing
of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
- Influencing
improvements in health outcomes
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Undertake home visits in accordance
with FNP model.
- Use high level interpersonal and
communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive
information. Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational
interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change
strategies.
- Utilise specialist knowledge acquired
through the FNP learning programme, events and other study, together with
reflections on experience, to deliver the FNP programme effectively.
- Work effectively in potentially
highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g. safeguarding
children or family breakdown.
- Develop therapeutic relationships,
requiring in-depth mental attention and concentration for extended periods, and
promote adaptive behaviour change in the family home and other
environments.
- Use the six FNP domains as a
framework for programme delivery.
- Use professional and clinical
judgement to undertake detailed assessments of clients and their families and
analyse complex family situations in order to develop appropriate clinical
interventions.
- Actively engage and work with
fathers and other members of the extended family to achieve positive outcomes
for children.
- Apply knowledge and skills to a range
of clinical and family situations.
- Work within the FNP model to initiate,
plan and co-ordinate clients care in consultation and collaboration with other
professionals and agencies involved in providing services to women and their
families. This includes initiating CAF and taking lead professional role where
required.
- At all times keep the safety of the
baby and the young person in mind, and work within local safeguarding policies
as appropriate.
- Act on own interpretation of assessed
clinical situation within the home setting. Able to refer client onto other
specialist services as required on own authority.
- Contribute to the delivery of the
Healthy Child Programme (HCP), including professional assessments of childrens
growth, development and language skills.
- Positively and effectively represent
the vision and principles of the FNP programme in actions and communications to
internal and external clients, stakeholders and services. 15. Manage own workload by working
independently within appropriate occupational guidelines, referring to FNP Lead
where appropriate.
- Act on own interpretation of assessed
clinical situation within the home setting.
- Able to refer client onto other
specialist services as required on own authority.
- Visit clients over a wide
geographical area and within flexible working hours, this may include following
families to neighbouring local authorities to enable them to continue to
benefit from the programme.
- Propose changes to working practices
or procedures for own work area as role evolves.
- Complete full, accurate and
contemporaneous records.
- Create regular reports on local site
replication performance for the programme board.
- Analyse reports on data for service
development and develop quality improvement measures to assure data quality,
completeness and accuracy, as well as improvements in programme delivery.
- Develop systems for
user involvement and support clients to offer feedback on the service received,
integrating this into local or national improvement measures.
- Develop local procedures for FNP, taking
into account FNP National Unit guidance.
- Be aware of, inform and abide by
provider services approved policies, standards and quality assurance
initiatives.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Undertake home visits in accordance
with FNP model.
- Use high level interpersonal and
communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive
information. Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational
interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change
strategies.
- Utilise specialist knowledge acquired
through the FNP learning programme, events and other study, together with
reflections on experience, to deliver the FNP programme effectively.
- Work effectively in potentially
highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g. safeguarding
children or family breakdown.
- Develop therapeutic relationships,
requiring in-depth mental attention and concentration for extended periods, and
promote adaptive behaviour change in the family home and other
environments.
- Use the six FNP domains as a
framework for programme delivery.
- Use professional and clinical
judgement to undertake detailed assessments of clients and their families and
analyse complex family situations in order to develop appropriate clinical
interventions.
- Actively engage and work with
fathers and other members of the extended family to achieve positive outcomes
for children.
- Apply knowledge and skills to a range
of clinical and family situations.
- Work within the FNP model to initiate,
plan and co-ordinate clients care in consultation and collaboration with other
professionals and agencies involved in providing services to women and their
families. This includes initiating CAF and taking lead professional role where
required.
- At all times keep the safety of the
baby and the young person in mind, and work within local safeguarding policies
as appropriate.
- Act on own interpretation of assessed
clinical situation within the home setting. Able to refer client onto other
specialist services as required on own authority.
- Contribute to the delivery of the
Healthy Child Programme (HCP), including professional assessments of childrens
growth, development and language skills.
- Positively and effectively represent
the vision and principles of the FNP programme in actions and communications to
internal and external clients, stakeholders and services. 15. Manage own workload by working
independently within appropriate occupational guidelines, referring to FNP Lead
where appropriate.
- Act on own interpretation of assessed
clinical situation within the home setting.
- Able to refer client onto other
specialist services as required on own authority.
- Visit clients over a wide
geographical area and within flexible working hours, this may include following
families to neighbouring local authorities to enable them to continue to
benefit from the programme.
- Propose changes to working practices
or procedures for own work area as role evolves.
- Complete full, accurate and
contemporaneous records.
- Create regular reports on local site
replication performance for the programme board.
- Analyse reports on data for service
development and develop quality improvement measures to assure data quality,
completeness and accuracy, as well as improvements in programme delivery.
- Develop systems for
user involvement and support clients to offer feedback on the service received,
integrating this into local or national improvement measures.
- Develop local procedures for FNP, taking
into account FNP National Unit guidance.
- Be aware of, inform and abide by
provider services approved policies, standards and quality assurance
initiatives.
Person Specification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Skilled in time management, prioritisation, and professional accountability
- Proven ability to independently manage a caseload, making clinical decisions and escalating safeguarding concerns as needed
- Ability to work in alignment with the FNP models fidelity and quality standards
Other Requirements
Essential
- Willingness to adapt to evolving service priorities, work across the entire Waltham Forest borough, and attend mandatory FNP training
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience Working with children & families with complex needs
- Proven experience of working in home visiting or community setting
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Health Visitor or Family Nurse
- Certificate/Diploma/Degree Nursing or midwifery qualifications
- Registered with the NMC
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of data collection, service evaluation, and KPI monitoring to measure outcomes and drive service improvements
Person Specification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Skilled in time management, prioritisation, and professional accountability
- Proven ability to independently manage a caseload, making clinical decisions and escalating safeguarding concerns as needed
- Ability to work in alignment with the FNP models fidelity and quality standards
Other Requirements
Essential
- Willingness to adapt to evolving service priorities, work across the entire Waltham Forest borough, and attend mandatory FNP training
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience Working with children & families with complex needs
- Proven experience of working in home visiting or community setting
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Health Visitor or Family Nurse
- Certificate/Diploma/Degree Nursing or midwifery qualifications
- Registered with the NMC
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of data collection, service evaluation, and KPI monitoring to measure outcomes and drive service improvements
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).
Additional information
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).
