Are you a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse)?

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our leadership team in the innovative and progressive School Nursing Service in Gloucestershire. Are you dynamic and motivated? Do you have the passion to be a leader and to inspire colleagues in the specialist field of public health nursing working with children and young people to improve their health? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, apply for a role in our growing workforce. We have vacancies in 3 of our teams, North (Tewkesbury and Cheltenham), East (Cotswolds and Stroud) and Gloucester city. What we do

We work in collaboration with children and young people developing services that they want.

We provide mobile working with laptops and electronic records, enabling place based and digital first interventions.

We use ChatHealth in response to requests of young people and families.

We take a trauma informed approach to planning and delivering care, working in partnership with children, young people and families ensuring shared decision making and goal setting.

We work in skill-mixed teams ensuring the right person is offering the care/interventions that are needed.

We provide a robust leadership structure ensuring all colleagues are supported with the SCPHN taking the lead in triage and allocation of workload.

Main duties of the job

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!

We can offer:

Diverse work leading a skill-mixed team developed through robust competency frameworks

Induction and Preceptorship programmes to underpin transition into role

Managerial, Clinical Supervision and Safeguarding Supervision is available to support professional practice and development.

Health and wellbeing of ourselves and our colleagues is important. Working for our NHS Foundation Trust offers many staff benefits and the School Nursing Service supports the mental and emotional wellbeing of all colleagues.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

About us

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

The annual NHS Staff Surveygives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users
• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work
• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority
• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Provide a holistic health assessment with vulnerable children, offer advice, support and interventions where necessary to address unmet health needs and improve outcomes for the child and family.

Work collaboratively with children, young people and their families with a trauma informed approach, with the knowledge and understanding of ACES that may be impacting the childs health.

To lead on cases for safeguarding Children in need of Protection, A& E referrals Children in Need and others deemed vulnerable applying professional curiosity where needed.

Provide advice, support and professional challenge at multi-agency meetings

Work in partnership with members of the multidisciplinary team and statutory and voluntary agencies in planning, delivering and evaluating care to improve outcomes for service users.

Be proactive in identifying and referring children and families where assessment identifies evidence of physical, sexual, emotional abuse or neglect.

Promote a high uptake of immunisation and vaccination programs and administer when required within public health immunisation campaigns.

Maintain accurate, factual and contemporaneous records in line with NMC guidelines and local policy.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• BSc in Nursing (or equivalent)
• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse).
• Skills for teaching and assessing in clinical practice ENB 998/FLAP or equivalent (or equivalent)
• Child Protection training above foundation level.
• Evidence of continued Professional Development.
• NMC registration at level 1 and 3

Desirable

• Family Planning Qualification or willingness to undertake appropriate training - PGD/Sexual Health training.
• Continence training

LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Knowledge and clear understanding of the Public Health Agenda for School Nursing.
• Specialist knowledge and understanding of local GCSP and National Child Protection Guidelines
• Experience of working across agencies
• Understanding and experience of the application of research in practice
• Experience in identifying and assessing health needs including community health needs

Attributes

Essential

• Desire to improve quality care
• Demonstrates leadership behaviours
• Ability to challenge in a professional manner

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Edward Jenner Court (GHC Headquarters)

1010 Pioneer Avenue

Brockworth

GL3 4AW

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327-24-817