Job summary
Are you a
qualified, NMC registered, Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) School
Nurse or are a student SCPHN School Nurse, qualifying in the next few
months?
Do you have:
- Excellent all-round communication and listening skills.
- A willingness to train and progress.
- Ability to work autonomously and yet be part of a wider team.
- Qualities of leadership and be willing to take responsibility and make appropriate decisions.
- Ability to reflect, learn and build on previous experience and knowledge.
If yes, we
would love to hear from you.
Come and join our
friendly, welcoming, and inclusive 0-19 team and share our ambition to make a
fundamental difference in improving the health and wellbeing of children and
their families in Waltham Forest.
We offer our school nurses:
- Excellent pay package.
- Exceptional Health and Wellbeing support for all our staff.
- Comprehensive training and creative learning opportunities.
- Forums when you can feedback your concerns and ideas to improve our service. We have a commitment to listening to staff, and taking frontline direction so to practice in line with the highest clinical standards.
Main duties of the job
We have within Waltham Forest excellent opportunities within our 0-19 team for innovative and motivated School Nurses who are keen to contribute to the further development of our service.
We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you, is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care, supporting children, young people and families have the best start in life delivered by outstanding people.
We have excellent partnership working with Waltham Forest Public Health Service, Primary and Secondary Schools, and General Practitioners to enable the Best Start in life and optimisation of health outcomes for children and young people.
Shortlisted candidates will be required to attend a virtual interview via Microsoft Teams.
Tower Hamlets GP Care Group is an Inclusive Employer.
We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in the job description. We also encourage people from all sections of our community to apply for jobs with us. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic, disabled etc applicants because they are currently under-represented in our workforce.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we
receive sufficient applications for the role.
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.
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
Key Responsibilities:
- To manage a caseload of designated schools
or area as the named health professional, with responsibility for the planning
and delivery of the public
health initiatives to the caseload.
- To be responsible for identifying need within a school or community through
profiling.
- To use a child,
young person public
health approach to address health
inequalities. Including the promotion of good health and the prevention of ill health
in the school, supporting schools
to manage children and young people with medical conditions
- To support the implementation of service development, standard setting, clinical
audit and benchmarking, to deliver
needs-led evidence-based care that supports
the local and national
priorities and policies.
- To be the principal
point of contact
for allocated schools
in an area/locality. To develop
and deliver co-operative working arrangements with schools that support healthy
outcomes for children, young people and facilitate partnership working across schools
and other partner organisations.
- To work with public health,
local statutory, private
and voluntary providers, and users to develop and promote practice
that is accessible and responsive to all section
of the schools community, ensuring
that services are targeted to the most vulnerable groups
and individuals to support social
inclusion.
- To participate in the Early Health Assessment process and support
the lead professional as appropriate.
- To provide and promote
access to information and other services, to refer as appropriate
- To liaise and work in partnership with statutory and non-statutory agencies, and other health services
colleagues.
- To identify children in need and children in need of protection, and work with other agencies to support vulnerable families.
- To adhere to current
Local Safeguarding Board
and London Child Protection Procedures.
- To participate in regular
discussion with Clinical
Locality and Safeguarding Team about children
giving cause for
concern.
- To maintain and develop
clinical skills in response to the changing
needs, including outbreaks
of communicable diseases,
programmes of immunisation and health promotion.
- To take responsibility for the delivery
of extended health
services and specialist community clinics as appropriate.
- To take the lead for a clinical area (to be agreed on appointment) and being responsible for maintaining up to date knowledge
and passing information to the whole
service. This may include a training role, producing and maintaining
standards, protocols.
- To undertake any other duties as
required by the Team Leader,
SHWS Lead or Director, as required providing it is within
the incumbents sphere
of competence.
- To run training/advice sessions
for colleagues, parents/carers, schools and other
service users
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- To manage a caseload of designated schools
or area as the named health professional, with responsibility for the planning
and delivery of the public
health initiatives to the caseload.
- To be responsible for identifying need within a school or community through
profiling.
- To use a child,
young person public
health approach to address health
inequalities. Including the promotion of good health and the prevention of ill health
in the school, supporting schools
to manage children and young people with medical conditions
- To support the implementation of service development, standard setting, clinical
audit and benchmarking, to deliver
needs-led evidence-based care that supports
the local and national
priorities and policies.
- To be the principal
point of contact
for allocated schools
in an area/locality. To develop
and deliver co-operative working arrangements with schools that support healthy
outcomes for children, young people and facilitate partnership working across schools
and other partner organisations.
- To work with public health,
local statutory, private
and voluntary providers, and users to develop and promote practice
that is accessible and responsive to all section
of the schools community, ensuring
that services are targeted to the most vulnerable groups
and individuals to support social
inclusion.
- To participate in the Early Health Assessment process and support
the lead professional as appropriate.
- To provide and promote
access to information and other services, to refer as appropriate
- To liaise and work in partnership with statutory and non-statutory agencies, and other health services
colleagues.
- To identify children in need and children in need of protection, and work with other agencies to support vulnerable families.
- To adhere to current
Local Safeguarding Board
and London Child Protection Procedures.
- To participate in regular
discussion with Clinical
Locality and Safeguarding Team about children
giving cause for
concern.
- To maintain and develop
clinical skills in response to the changing
needs, including outbreaks
of communicable diseases,
programmes of immunisation and health promotion.
- To take responsibility for the delivery
of extended health
services and specialist community clinics as appropriate.
- To take the lead for a clinical area (to be agreed on appointment) and being responsible for maintaining up to date knowledge
and passing information to the whole
service. This may include a training role, producing and maintaining
standards, protocols.
- To undertake any other duties as
required by the Team Leader,
SHWS Lead or Director, as required providing it is within
the incumbents sphere
of competence.
- To run training/advice sessions
for colleagues, parents/carers, schools and other
service users
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse, Children's Nurse, Midwife, or Mental Health Nurse with current NMC registration and Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Significant Experience of post qualification Relevant experience of working in a community setting-Minimum 2 years as a SCPHN.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries within Health/Social.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of managing own caseload, supervising others and delivery training and education programmes.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse, Children's Nurse, Midwife, or Mental Health Nurse with current NMC registration and Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Significant Experience of post qualification Relevant experience of working in a community setting-Minimum 2 years as a SCPHN.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries within Health/Social.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of managing own caseload, supervising others and delivery training and education programmes.
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.
