Job responsibilities
Main purpose of the job: To support children, young people and families who are
Electively Home Educated to support CYP to engage with an educational provision
through referral and escalation to Supporting Families/ Children Missing from
education (CME) team.
To be the allocated named School Nurse for three Alternative
Provisions (AP) within Southend-On-Sea.
To work in partnership with a wide range of professionals
including but not limited to, GPs, Health Visiting, School Nursing, Community
dental, Community paediatricians, Mental health services, Open Road, Supporting
Families, Social Care, and the Youth offending team to ensure that children and
young peoples health needs are supported, and safeguarding is maintained.
To engage with safeguarding processes to ensure concerns are
escalated through appropriate channels and a suitable plan of support can be
developed to meet the need of the Child/Young person. This includes adhering to the local SET and
national safeguarding policies and procedures, accessing mandatorysafeguarding supervision, liaising with the locality
safeguarding team and social care, writing safeguarding reports and attending
Child Protection conference, core groups and Child in Need meetings.
Completion of safeguarding health needs assessments to
support in the identification of health needs and inform a personalised plan of
care/interventions in collaboration with the child, young person, and their
parent/carer.
To establish and maintain relationships with voluntary
agencies to support the understanding of health needs, increase accessibility
to services and address inequalities.
To support effective service responses and pathways where
there are multi-agency service interfaces required.
To maintain an excellent standard of records for the
service.
It is recognised
that children and young people within this client group often present with
complex and/or enduring needs which require a multidisciplinary and flexible
approach in the aim of recognising and addressing barriers to services and
reducing health inequalities. Due to these factors, children and young people
in this client group may be at increased vulnerability.
To promote and
upskill the Southend Children, Young People & Family Public Health service (0-19
team) and other agencies regarding this client group.
Key responsibilities: To provide a
proactive and responsive service, working flexibly to meet the needs of
children and young people in this client group utilising a variety of
communicative tools such as face to face appointments at alternative education
provisions, home visiting, community-based appointments at family centres,
telephone contact, video calls and Chat Health text messaging service.
To be responsible
for setting up, establishing, and maintaining School Nurse led drop-in clinics
for young people at allocated alternative provisions. To be responsible for drop-in
clinic with support from 5-19 skill mix for parents/carers for Young People who
attend alternative provisions or who are Electively Home Educated.
To complete and
review risk assessments to identify safest means of School Nursing service
delivery.
To utilise problem-solving
skills to address difficult to reach clients and families and encourage
engagement with services.
To develop evidence-based
health promotion and education sessions for children and young people to
support increased knowledge and understanding of effective management of health
needs.
To arrange meetings
between parents and education to support the development of health needs care
plans and effective implementation.
To work alongside
the Inclusion Team at the local authority and review any health needs of
young People being discussed at the Inclusion panel.
To work in partnership
with a wide range of professionals including but not limited to GP, Health
Visiting, Community Dental Service, Community Paediatrics, Mental Health
services, Stop Smoking Service, Open Road, Social Care and Youth Offending Team
to ensure that children and young peoples health needs are supported, and
safeguarding is maintained.
To supporting
children missing from education to engage with an educational provision through
referral and escalation to the Supporting Families/ Children Missing from Education
(CME) team.To complete onward referrals to relevant services to support
children and young people being able to access education.
To have an in-depth
understanding the legislation that underpins safeguarding practices and
childrens rights to education and support.
To engage with
safeguarding processes to ensure concerns are escalated through appropriate
channels and a suitable plan of support can be developed to meet the need of
the child/young person. This includes adhering to local Southend, Essex and
Thurrock (SET) and national safeguarding policies and procedures, accessing mandatory
safeguarding supervision, liaising with the locality safeguarding team and
social care, writing safeguarding reports and attending Child Protection
Conferences, Core Group, Child in Need and Strategy Meetings.
Completion of
safeguarding Health Needs Assessments to support in the identification of
health needs andinform a personalised plan of
care / intervention in collaborationwith the client and their
parent/carer.
Attendance at
specialist multidisciplinary meetings with a Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) focus
to increase understanding of CSE and Criminal Exploitation (CE) risk within the
locality and how best to support vulnerable children and young people most at
risk.
To provide
leadership within the team and to client group, acting as a positive role model
by demonstrating excellent standards of working practice and
communication.
Accessing
specialist training sessions to develop and promote skills needed to support
children and young peoples varied and/or complex needs on subjects such as
Gangs and County Lines, CE, CSE, Risk Taking Behaviours, Sexual Health, Smoking
Cessation, Drugs and Alcohol, Mental Health, Risk Assessment and
Communication.
Evaluating and
auditing service provision to ensure it is client accessible and effective.
To support the Team
Leader for the School Nursing service by providing advanced clinical practice
and team oversight including knowledge and experience. This includes supporting on safeguarding
practice, caseload oversight, statutory 5-19 programmes, training, audit, and
interagency work as required.
Support School Nursing Duty providing cover as appropriate.
Promoting awareness
and utilising school nursing referral system.
To provide
advanced public health clinical expertise to the public health team and school
nursing team offering specialist advice and guidance for care of the 519-year-old
children and young people at risk of exclusion and EOTAS.
To support the
development, implementation, and evaluation of policies/evidence-based
guidelines for the service. This includes the quality assurance framework for
the service.
Support management oversight for clinical effectiveness of the Healthy
Child Programme using evidence-based practice and audit.
The post holder
will adapt and be responsive whilst supporting development of the school
nursing role, creating, and maintaining an environment in which excellence in
service delivery will flourish.
Support the team on
safeguarding agendas that impact on the 5-19 services including Safeguarding
Partnership subgroups (CSE/CE/Missing), primary care interfaces, multi-agency
groups, and engagement with the universal services.
Support the School Nursing Team Leader for
the School Nursing service with management of the service and the skill mix
team as appropriate.
Clinical
To work with children, young people, and their
families to deliver the Healthy Child Programme 5-19
whilst supporting statutory safeguarding delivery.
To establish and maintain relationships with other
statutory and voluntary agencies e.g., primary care, 0-5 universal services,
safeguarding teams, specialist/targeted childrens services, specialist school
nursing, Supporting Families, social services, and education.
Provide a supervisor/preceptorship role to School Nurses
and Health Visitors, identifying ongoing developmental needs.
Support effective service responses and pathways where
there are multi-agency service interfaces required. This includes but is not
exhaustive of dealing effectively with child protection processes, domestic
violence incidents, A&E notifications, and mental health notifications.
To continue to develop templates and SystmOne
developments whilst record keeping and maintaining an excellent standard of
records for the service.
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