SCPHN School Nurse inBakewell inBakewell PUBLISHED
FRI 25 OCT 2024
The role requires a commitment to creating a supportive culture, continuous service improvement, and accountability. The nurse will be based primarily at Newholme Hospital and will cover schools in the Buxton area while traveling across the locality from Matlock to Glossop for various responsibilities, including attending meetings and training sessions. The position emphasises collaboration with local organisations and a commitment to patient welfare at the core of its operations.
DCHS has a fabulous opportunity for a SCPHN School Nurse to join the Children's Community Services Team on a full-time basis (37.5 hours per week).
You will need to effectively engage with your client group, peers and partner agencies in all elements of your role, leading by example and promoting a supportive and caring culture.
This will require an inclusive, transparent, open approach to your role, where you are happy to be accountable to others and to go that extra mile when required.
You will be passionate about our business, creating a culture of continuous improvement, where patient welfare is at the heart of all you do.
Working with the skill mix team, you will deliver the Healthy Child Programme universally along with progressive levels of service and safeguarding children according to identified need.
You will provide services in partnership with the local voluntary sector and multiagency teams and participate in service improvement both within the locality and across the county.
You will manage and develop the Children's Community Services Team (5-19) and contribute to the development of services to deliver the commissioned service specification.
You will be part of the multi-disciplinary team including the wider local children's workforce, working within a public health framework, to meet the prioritised health needs of children and families.
You will have responsibility for delivery of the key performance indicators for a community of school aged children within an identified specific action plan.
You will undertake responsibility as 'named nurse' for a Multi- Agency Team area and inclusive schools within a specified locality.
You will carry continuing responsibility for the assessment of health needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of intervention. To create and promote a positive learning environment for junior staff and students on placement.
Whilst in this post, you will have an office base at Newholme Hospital and cover schools primarily in the Buxton area. You will be required however to travel around the locality, which stretches from Matlock to Glossop, as part of the 5-19 public health team.
Traveling to other parts of Derbyshire is sometimes necessary, for example, to attend meetings and training sessions.
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