SCPHN School Nurse Band 6 inAccrington inAccrington PUBLISHED THU 24 OCT 2024

JoinHCRG Care Groupand make a positive impact in your community as aBand 6 SCPHN School Nurse.

We're seeking talented, compassionate individuals to join our team in East Lancashire!

As a School Nurse, you'll have the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of children and young people by promoting health, wellbeing, and providing essential care. With support and development opportunities, this is an exciting chance to grow your career while making a difference.

Working within Lancashire Child and Family Wellbeing Services offers a unique environment, with clear visibility of senior management who are easily approachable due to their hands-on approach, which includes our Managing Director. You will feel listened to and be given the platforms to have your voice and ideas heard.

As a SCPHN School Nurse, you will be responsible for:

• The delivery of the Healthy Child Programme including assessment of health needs, development, implementation, and evaluation of packages of care
• Using the Family Health Needs Assessment tool to plan and evidence care
• Devise and implement individualized care plans for each child based on a needs assessment, while actively involving the child/parent/carer/family in the planning and implementation of any proposed programme of care and support
• Participate in effective partnership working with other agencies and taking a lead professional role where appropriate.
• Use evidence-based practice to develop and maintain a high quality and cost-effective standard for Specialist Public Health Nurse/School Nursingpractice.

You will also develop your leadership skills by undertaking mentorship responsibilities to both pre-registration and SCPHN students whilst on placement within the service and provide preceptorship to support new staff members. Support will be on hand by our Practice Education team to do this, along with being provided with regular safeguarding supervision.

About us

As a Band 6 SCPHN School Nurse youll be part of our valued team at our Lancashire 0-19 service.

You will feel valued as a School Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

Band 6 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions

Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location

Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you

Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates

Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling

Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise

An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission