Consultant Public Health Nurse

Job summary

A unique and exciting opportunity for a 0 to 19 Public Health Nurse Consultant is available in Croydon Health Services NHS Trust. The role will be underpinned by four pillars thus providing expert clinical leadership, education, and research to improve the outcomes for babies, children, young people and their families living in Croydon.

This role involves collaborating with partner agencies across the system and with the Croydon Public Health Consultant to identify the population health needs and reduce health inequalities by developing staff, and contributing to service development and leading quality improvement initiatives.

The Consultant Public Health Nurse will demonstrate strong leadership and lead on strategic initiatives and lead and support Health Visitors, School Nurses to realise their full potential as autonomous practitioners understanding the health needs of the local population and individual families.

The post holder will work closely with the Deputy Director of Nursing and the 0 to 19 public health nursing senior management team to develop a service which is responsive to the needs of the children, young people and families of Croydon.

Main duties of the job

The Public Health Nurse Consultant role functions:

Expert practice function:

Deliver high quality care, enable other practitioners to maintain professional expertise, and be able to exercise a high degree of personal autonomy within their role.

Professional leadership and consultancy function:

Demonstrate leadership skills which will support and motivate others, in order to continuously improve the quality of care and standards of practice.

They should be a source of expertise and knowledge for others.

Practice, service development, research and evaluation function:

Contribute to the development of professional practice, through the promotion of evidence-based practice and audit of standards of care. They should have a role in the research and evaluation of practice. The postholder will also manage and deliver specific programmes including the financial and staffing resources management for those programmes, leading change processes with clinical staff to improve quality and change established practices using developing/conflicting highly complex evidence basis to drive changes.

Education, training and development function:

Contribute to the training and education of others, establishing formal links with education providers. They should contribute to the development of qualified staff in their specialist field.

About us

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provide hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon. The Trust wasformed on 1st August 2010 through the integration of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust. Around 4,100 staff provide servicesfora population of over 360,000 people who are relatively young with a high level of ethnic diversity.Our main hospital site, Croydon University Hospital is one of the busiest in London. We're also leading the way in providing more healthcare outside hospitals at clinics, specialist centres and in people's homes. Our experienced district nursing teams, Allied Health Professionals and community matrons look after people of all ages across Croydon.Across the NHS everyone isworkinghard to meet growing demand and we're no exception. But with the right people on board, we are rising to this challenge, putting our people in the driving seat, encouraging innovation and transforming our services to give local people the quality of care they deserve. Croydon Health Services puts a great deal of importance on education and training throughout the careers of all of our staff.If you want the opportunity to have a real impact, challenge yourself and be part of an NHS Trust that's making a real difference then a career at Croydon Health Services could be just what you're lookingfor.