Healthy Child Nurse (Development Post)

City of York Council

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Job summary

City of York Council is offering career development opportunities for Registered Nurses and Midwives to join our transforming 0-19 Healthy Child Service. We are looking for high quality, innovative and enthusiastic individuals with a passion for improving outcomes for children and young people and an interest in becoming Health Visitors or School Nurses.

These are development posts based within our 0-11 Health Visiting teams or in the School Aged Health Team. The role is varied, interesting and fulfilling and provide opportunities to make a real difference to children, young people and their families. The posts also provide excellent opportunities to gain greater insight into the role of the Health Visitor/ School Nurse and varied skills and experience that will support you to successfully complete Health Visitor/ School Nurse training.

Main duties of the job

Working as a Healthy Child Nurse you will contribute to the development and delivery of public health initiatives to promote the health and well-being of children and young people, enabling them to reach their full potential. You will deliver programmes of support in various community settings, early years settings, school settings and in the homes of families as delegated by Health Visitors and School Nurses.

You will be working alongside a range of partners including early help providers, childrens services, education, housing, adult services, the voluntary and community sector, primary and secondary health services and of course children, families and communities.

Following successful achievement of competencies, there is the opportunity to commence Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) fully-funded training in either Health Visiting or School Nursing dependent on which area the competencies were achieved.

You will be supported by a Supervisor and Practice Educator as a Healthy Child Nurse to ensure that all learning outcomes and competencies are completed prior to commencement onto the SCPHN course. Commencement of the SCPHN course will be subject to final approval by the Head of Public Health (Healthy Child Service).

About us

The Council is highly committed to investing in the talent and wellbeing of our staff and can offer a generous annual leave allowance, access to the Local Government Pension Scheme, comprehensive Health & Wellbeing initiatives and a reward package which recognises your contribution. We can offer flexible working practices, community engagement and volunteer activities and, as part of our commitment to you, promote continuous Learning & Development. In addition we also offer a growing range of discounts, rewards and savings.

Date posted

10 July 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£31,947 to £34,988 a year Grade 8 Level 1 - 4 (£31,947 -£34,988) per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

F0094-PHTH004789

Job locations

West Offices

Station Rise

York

North Yorkshire

YO1 6GA

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Healthy Child Nurse will support the delivery of a creative, diverse and innovative approach to improving health outcomes for children and young people across the City.

Working with children, young people and their families across the 0-19 agenda promoting health, preventing ill health, identifying health needs and recognising unmet health needs through use of evidence-based practice.

Working under the leadership of the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse, the post holder will deliver direct work with children, young people and families and play a part in building community capacity to contribute to the Healthy Child Programme High Impact Areas and the local Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.

The post holder will enable access to health services, as appropriate, and strengthen the quality of health education in community and school settings and provide targeted outreach.

They will provide advice and guidance, signposting and supporting interventions to all children and young people as part of the 0-19 Healthy Child Programme with a progressive universalism approach, based firmly on proven Public Health evidence to target those at risk of poor outcomes.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Healthy Child Nurse will support the delivery of a creative, diverse and innovative approach to improving health outcomes for children and young people across the City.

The post holder will enable access to health services, as appropriate, and strengthen the quality of health education in community and school settings and provide targeted outreach.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Please see Job description/Job profile.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Please see Job description/Job profile.

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.