• Job Description

  Req#: C9270-24-0832?language=en&page=688&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  We are looking for registered nurses to join our School Nursing team in Northampton. Our successful applicants will be part of our growing Universal Children's Service offering an opportunity to join them in providing excellent evidence based care and support for children, young people and their families.

  If you are motivated, enthusiastic and flexible and looking for a challenging role in which no two days are the same, we want to meet you!

  We need nurses who can work well with children, young people, families and other professionals, who are adaptable and innovative and who enjoy working autonomously and as part of a team. Core areas of clinical delivery will relate to assessing children and young people's holistic health and wellbeing, partnership working, safeguarding and promoting:

  • Children's continence
  • Children and young people's emotional wellbeing
  • Healthy sleep
  • Emotional & behavioural co-regulation with parents/carers
  • Healthy lifestyles
  • Healthy growth and development
  • Sexual health

  Main duties of the job

  The post holder will be working in an integrated skill mix team that includes Practice assessors, Specialist School Nurses, Health Visitors, Healthy Child Practitioners, Nursery Nurses and School Nurse Assistants.

  Our service users are at the heart of our service delivery and we listen to the child's voice at all times. We involve children and families in decision making and aspire to deliver a truly co-produced 0-19 service.

  The post holder is expected to support a range of service delivery under direct and indirect supervision of a SCPHN School Nurse or Health Visitor. You must be able to prioritise needs to ensure efficient service delivery.

  This is achieved by working within local cluster areas that enable practitioners to have an enhanced knowledge of their local community and its public health needs.

  Community Staff Nurses are expected to participate in leading a full range of interventions across the 0-19 age ranges which includes but is not limited to: in-depth health assessments, immunisations, health education, sexual health advice and assessment, leading group psycho-education including wellbeing workshops, parent and child interventions, continence clinics, well-being interventions and drop in services.

  You will be supported in practice by an administration hub that provides a single point of contact for the 0-19 service.

  The 0-19 service values staff development and you will be supported with training and development to help you to achieve your potential.

  About us

  NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

  Date posted

  06 September 2024

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 5

  Salary

  £29,970 to £36,483 a year pa pro rata

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Part-time

  Reference number

  270-TF412-ACS

  Job locations

  Weston Favell

  Northampton

  NN3 8DW

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications & Education

  Essential

  • Registed Nurse
  • Evidence of CPD

  Desirable

  • Evidence of teaching & mentoring
  • PSHE Quaification
  • Contraception knowledge/experience

  Knowledge & experience

  Essential

  • Team & interagency working
  • Awarenss of clincial supervision
  • Awareness of children & young people's nurse role
  • Awareness of Health Promotion
  • Understanding of clincial governance, audit & quality
  • Awarenss of issue impacting on young people
  • Awarensss of child protection issues
  • Understanding of supervision in practice

  Desirable

  • 2 years post reg experience
  • Previous experience of community working
  • Experience of deivering immunisations
  • Awareness of child developement
  • Awareness of health inequalities
  • Experience of teaching/facilitating groups
  • Experience of working with children and thier families

  Personal attributes

  Essential

  • Flexibilty to meet the needs of the service
  • Car driver with ability to travel county wide

  Person Specification

  Qualifications & Education

  Essential

  • Registed Nurse
  • Evidence of CPD

  Desirable

  • Evidence of teaching & mentoring
  • PSHE Quaification
  • Contraception knowledge/experience

  Knowledge & experience

  Essential

  • Team & interagency working
  • Awarenss of clincial supervision
  • Awareness of children & young people's nurse role
  • Awareness of Health Promotion
  • Understanding of clincial governance, audit & quality
  • Awarenss of issue impacting on young people
  • Awarensss of child protection issues
  • Understanding of supervision in practice

  Desirable

  • 2 years post reg experience
  • Previous experience of community working
  • Experience of deivering immunisations
  • Awareness of child developement
  • Awareness of health inequalities
  • Experience of teaching/facilitating groups
  • Experience of working with children and thier families

  Personal attributes

  Essential

  • Flexibilty to meet the needs of the service
  • Car driver with ability to travel county wide

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

  Address

  Weston Favell

  Northampton

  NN3 8DW

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

  Address

  Weston Favell

  Northampton

  NN3 8DW

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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