Band 6 School Nurse

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 School Nurse to join our friendly and welcoming BaNES Childand Family Public Health Service to leadand deliver high quality, pro-activehealth care andsupportfor children and the 5-19 HealthyChildProgramme.

You will deliver health care supportand advice as part of the Health ChildProgramme, to reduce health inequalities, safeguard children and improve outcomes.

This is a part-time (22.5 hours per week) term-time only role that will be based at Paulton Memorial Hospital.

For more details on the role, we encourage you to contactserena.meakin@hcrgcaregroup.comorviv.crouch@hcrgcaregroup.com

Main duties of the job

• Understand the children and young peoples public health agenda and work in partnership with other agencies to improve the health of school aged children across B&NES.
• Establish and maintain good working relationships with stakeholders and partner services, working collaboratively to support the provision of early universal access to information for health issues.
• Use clinical judgement and public health expertise to identify health needs early, determine potential risk and provide early intervention to prevent issues escalating.
• Use compassionate, evidence-based approaches, including MECC and Trauma Informed approaches.
• Manage an identified caseload of secondary and primary schools.
• Undertake population and school level health needs assessment to identify local need and deliver outcome-focused interventions aligned with the High Impact Areas of the Healthy Child Programme (0-19), promoting physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing.
• Assess childrens health needs to identify any deviation from normal development in line with Safeguarding Children policies and procedures, leading on Early Help support when required.
• Deliver drop-ins, health education sessions, needs-led interventions, information provision and signposting/introduction to other agencies to support and empower children, young people and families to take ownership of and manage their health care.

For a full list of role responsibilities please refer to the attached job description.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Employer details

Employer name

HCRG Care Group

Address

HCRG Care Group

Bristol

Avon

BS39 7SB

Employer's website

https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

HCRG Care Group

Address

HCRG Care Group

Bristol

Avon

BS39 7SB

Employer's website

https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

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