SCPHN School Nurse

Job responsibilities

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 support to school aged children and young people within 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 children's services to school aged children and young people throughout Nottingham City.
• 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 with our most vulnerable children within Nottingham City with the expectation to attend safeguarding meetings to include ICPC, RCPC, Core Groups, LACS, ERMM, Strategy Meetings.
• To work therapeutically, using a range of skills including prescribing, with a range of family members to promote behaviour 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 Schools, GPs 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.

Qualifications

Essential

• 1st level Registration
• Registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse).

Desirable

• Mentorship Programme, e.g., supporting practice learning or equivalent
• Non-medical prescribing (V100 or V300)
• Evidence of further professional development including-
• Dip Level 2 Modules in Family Planning
• Teaching & Assessing, Counselling

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of working with diverse or disadvantaged groups.
• Experience of working with children, families, and young people.
• Experience of working in partnership with key partners to safeguard children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
• Experience of clinical supervision.

Desirable

• Evidence of delivering health promotion activities to groups.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Understand the difference between advice giving and motivational approaches.
• Knowledge and research of the Healthy Child Programme.
• Willingness to undertake personal study to develop understanding of a range of clinical areas.
• National and local safeguarding policies.
• Able to manage strong emotions, sensitive issues and undertake courageous conversations.
• Able to develop supportive, trusting, and respectful relationships.
• Able to work effectively in a team, supporting others and challenging colleagues views and attitudes when necessary.
• Able to sensitively provide anticipatory guidance to parents.
• Able to manage exposure to distressing life events and stressful complex partnerships.
• Highly reflective and able to learn from experiences.
• Willingness to prepare for and engage in clinical and managerial supervision.
• Able assess a situation, set priorities and problem solve quickly and effectively.
• Able to communicate clearly and succinctly both verbally and in writing.
• Exceptional communication, facilitative and motivating skills.
• Able to work effectively with diverse groups.
• Able to use computers and programmes (read excel spreadsheets etc), competently to be able to record in a persons confidential health record, create reports, collect data, use email, write letters etc.
• Able to analyse numerical data.
• Multi-agency/disciplinary working, innovation, and practice development.
• Ability to relate to and communicate with and engage Children, Young People & parents/Carers.

Desirable

• Evidence of delivering health promotion activities to groups
• Awareness of local and national health agendas
• Experience of working in a skill mix team
• Evidence of developing practice
• Evidence of audit evaluation/research
• Attachment theory
• Self efficacy theory
• Human ecology theory
• Behaviour change theory
• Parent, Child and Adolescent Mental Health
• Motivational and promotional Interviewing
• Solihull
• Teaching PSHE Certificate

Special Requirements

Essential

• Highly motivated and forward thinking.
• Effective under stress.
• Willingness to be flexible over hours worked within contracted hours to meet the needs of the service.
• Full driving licence and the ability to travel between locations

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).