SCPHN School Nurse (SN) inBennerley Road inBennerley Road PUBLISHED 20 DEC 2023

Job Purpose

• To lead and co-ordinate the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme within a 0-19 integrated public health team.
• To manage an assigned caseload and be responsible and accountable for this caseload
• Deliver evidence-based packages of care to give Nottingham children the best start in life.
• To signpost families to other services to ensure that children, young people, and families have the support they require to meet their individual needs.
• To support the Clinical Service Leads and Managers to deliver an integrated service offer for children and young people aged 0 - 19 and their families.
• To work collegiately with other key partners to ensure the delivery of high-quality childrens services throughout Nottingham City and across the 0 19 age range.
• To provide appropriate care to children, young people, and their families in line with professional registration.

Dimensions

The SCPHN School Nurse will be responsible for:

• Staff management, including all aspects of human resource policy and procedure.
• Financial management, to work in a cost-effective manner.
• Work in partnership with other key partners such to deliver evidence-based programmes of care to children, young people, and their families in Nottingham city in a variety of community settings.
• Support service improvement by leading and/or participating in corporate and local work programmes, projects, workshops, or other initiatives; and supporting the implementationof new working practices.
• Maintain own mandatory and role specific training and deliver training / group work to staff andclients.

Key Responsibilities

Professional

• To work within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• To take a lead role for a specialist area of practice within the team. For example, Safeguarding, Emotional Health, SystmOne, etc.
• To take a lead professional role when required where children and young people with additional needs require an integrated package of support from more than one practitioner/service.
• To actively engage in the reflective supervision process, to ensure that expertise in clinical methods is developed and maintained and that the service offered is high quality.
• To work in collaboration with local statutory and mainstream services to ensure that families become confident in accessing a range of other universal health and support services.
• To contribute to the development of identified public health initiatives.
• Use high level interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive information. Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to develop behavior change strategies.
• Demonstrate effective management and leadership skills
• Anticipate and reduce barriers to communication.
• Enable children, young people, and families to express their anxieties and concerns and, where appropriate, act as an advocate for the service user who may require support in accessing appropriate services.
• Be responsible for and able to assess and interpret complex written and verbal referrals/reports.
• Providing consultation to the team on identified children, young persons or families and advising on appropriate care or referral.

Clinical

• Plans, develops, implements, and evaluates health improvement programmes with children, young people, and families.
• To use evidence-based programmes, materials, and methods in a range of settings to improve the outcomes of childrens health and development.
• Ensures the universal delivery of the Healthy Child Programme and plan and co-ordinate clients care in consultation and collaboration with other professionals.
• Take the role of the lead professional in delivery of care utilising the Common Assessment Framework / Priority Families model.
• To work therapeutically, using a range of skills including prescribing, with a range of family members to promote behavior change and positive outcomes for children and families.
• Develop therapeutic relationships, requiring in-depth mental attention and concentration for extended periods, and promote adaptive behaviour change in the family home and other environments.
• To provide advice, signposting and support for parents, carers and young people using Text Health, our text messaging service.
• Use professional and clinical judgement to undertake detailed assessments of clients and their families and analyse complex family situations to develop appropriate clinical interventions.
• Responsible for complex information gathering, from a wide range of sources, some of which may be conflicting.
• Works effectively with a wide range of diverse people to identify their health and wellbeing needs.
• Work with partners especially in Early Help teams in Children Centres, GPs, Midwives and Social Care where families have ongoing needs requiring multi agency support.
• Actively engage and work with fathers and other members of the extended family to achieve positive outcomes for children and families.
• Promote community capacity building to enable families and communities to build on their strengths to provide new ways for improving service.
• Integrate into practice emerging theories in neuroscience and early intervention to effectively support families with complex needs.
• At all times keep the safety and wellbeing of the child in mind and work within local safeguarding policies and procedures.
• To undertake additional training and complete competency packages to deliver enhanced clinical roles e.g., immunisations, new-born bloodspot screening etc.

Organisational

• Uphold CityCare values and Behaviours, policy and procedures and professional regulatory body code of conduct.
• Keep accurate electronic and paper records consistent with the current record keeping policy.
• Ensure robust communication systems exist between key stakeholders including, general practice, education, social care, public health, and voluntary services.
• Working in partnership, develop and maintain strong working relationships with the Early Help team to lead the delivery of the HCP.
• Seek and act upon feedback from service users via organisational mechanisms.
• Analyse reports on data for service development and quality improvement measures.
• Works effectively as part of a skills mix team.
• Support skills mix staff to assess their own work and give them clear and appropriate feedback.
• To participate in the appraisal process of others and development of own Personal Development Plan to include clinical supervision and revalidation.
• As a practitioner, be able to prioritise and allocate work to other members of the skills mix team.
• Participate in safeguarding supervision, organisational and team meetings as required.
• Maintain professional awareness and attend and maintain updates for all mandatory and service specific training and appraisals.
• Identify and report risk as per organisational policy.
• Contribute to effective working in a changing environment as services develop, and to undertake any other duties that may reasonably be required within the remit of the Knowledge and Skills Framework for the role.

Nottingham CityCare are excited to announce that we are recruiting a Qualified SCPHN School Nurse in Nottingham City and are offering a starting salary of mid-point Band 6 (First mid-point increment).

Nottingham CityCare is a dynamic organisation, commissioned to provide NHS services in the community.

We are currently recruiting qualified School Nurses that are committed to developing and embedding innovative ways of working with key partners to deliver quality childrens public health services.

You will be part of our 0-19 Public Health team, with your caseload related to your specialism (5-19). You will work in various community settings and clients homes, leading on delivery of the 0-19 Healthy Child Programme via our universal and targeted services.

Our starting salary is mid-point band 6 for all staff who are newly qualified or have qualified within the last three years. Salary can also be negotiated depending on experience and current rate of pay and we honour agenda for change Terms and Conditions.

In addition, you will have access to a preceptorship programme which is the first in the Midlands to have been awarded the National Quality Mark, with protected time for continued professional development and study sessions.

We also have a dedicated Safeguarding Service who will provide you with safeguarding advice, support and supervision. Our supervision package also includes management supervision and clinical/restorative supervision when required.

You will lead on reducing health inequalities and improving the health and wellbeing of children and their families within Nottingham City and offer evidence-based programmes of care to children and families.

You will have:

• Excellent knowledge of the current developments in School Nursing and have a proven track record of continuous professional development and innovative practice.
• Excellent communication skills: (both written and verbal), coupled with good IT and organisational / prioritising skills, with the ability to work within a team setting as well as independently.
• Positive outlook and responsive to changes in the future delivery of health care.
• Knowledge and experience in addressing safeguarding issues and participating in safeguarding processes and pathways.
• Within the wider service you will also be involved in audit, development of practice, support and supervision to other health care professionals and students.

The hours of work will be minimum 22.5 over 3 days (Part time) to 37.5 hours (Part Time/Full time). The Service hours are Monday Friday 8.30am 5pm excluding weekends and bank holidays.

For further information please contact Clinical Service Manager: Donna Barker on