Family Nurse - Family Nurse Partnership inHigh Wycombe inHigh Wycombe PUBLISHED
FRI 6 DEC 2024
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust rC5juByv
Ideal candidates should have experience as a family nurse or similar background and a passion for working with young people in disadvantaged communities. The role emphasises continuous professional development, collaboration with local services, and the contribution to quality assurance within the children's community service, ensuring high standards in the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme. The position supports a strength-based team culture and offers opportunities for learning and skills development in a dynamic environment.
Do you have experience working as a family nurse and are looking to return to the role after a break or are relocating to a new area?
Are you passionate about prevention and early intervention?
Do you enjoy working with young people?
Do you thrive in a strength-based team culture?
Do you have experience of working with hard to reach or disadvantaged communities?
Are you excited by the opportunity to learn and develop new skills alongside your colleagues?
We have an opportunity within the Buckinghamshire Team!
The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is an international evidence-based programme. The aim of the programme is to improve antenatal health, child health & development and parents' and self-sufficiency. Family Nurses come from a range of nursing backgrounds and are responsible for delivering the FNP intensive, preventive home visiting programme to vulnerable, hard to reach young women who are expecting their first baby and continues up to the child's second birthday.
To work therapeutically with a range of family members to promote behaviour change and positive outcomes for children and families.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 participate in continuous monitoring and engagement in reflective supervision, to ensure that expertise in safeguarding and clinical methods are developed and maintained, that the service offered is of high quality and the programme implemented with fidelity.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 and are ready to graduate from the programme when the child is two years old.To be part of the Buckinghamshire Children & Young People's Community Service in the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme to the highest possible standard.
As a Family Nurse there is an expectation that you will provide knowledge and leadership expertise within your locality and within the wider service and system and contribute to quality assurance and improvements.
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If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.
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