Community Nursery Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

Undertake delegated work from the health visitor to improve health outcomes for children; young people and families in the community setting, in a variety of ways including; 1:1 work, group work, home visiting, nursery and school setting and telephone advice.

Undertakes delegated pieces of work with families who request support with their childs weight.

Submit accurate and timely activity and outcome data to ensure that key performance indicator targets set by the Trust/and or the local authority are monitored and outcomes achieved.

Undertake developmental assessments and support health needs using ages and stages questionnaires (ASQ) and schedule of growth skills (SOGS) as appropriate ; undertake tasks delegated by the health visitor including: accepting and responding to re-assigned alerts, deliver brief interventions and feedback progress to the health visitor.

To have a knowledge and understanding of current child protection guidelines, recognising if children are in need of protection and report concerns to health visitor in line with Coventry Safeguarding Childrens Board policy and procedures.

Support the team to deliver health public health initiatives which are consistent with nation/local messages.

Support the health visiting team at Open Baby Clinics.

Respond appropriately to general enquires from parents/carers and school/nursery staff referring back to the health visitor.

To act as a resource to nurseries, parents/carers and provide information on health initiatives; e.g. healthy eating.

Follow and adhere to the standards and guidelines set for Health Visiting to ensure a consistent approach is followed.

Support the uptake of the childhood immunisation programme when opportunities arise with contacts with children, young people and families.

Ensure that confidentiality is upheld at all times, as per trust guidelines.

Attend the Trust statutory and mandatory training programme specific to the role ensuring that training completed follows the essential skills policy including regular appraisal.

Participate in/access group or team clinical supervision.

Participate in and contribute to team/locality meetings to keep up to date with trust information.

In accordance with trust guidelines for record keeping, maintain and keep contemporaneous records in whatever form they present, e.g. text, phone calls.

Measurable Result Areas

Participate in clinical audits and clinical bench marking to improve service care and delivery.

Communications and Working Relationships

Support the local induction/training programmes for new staff, and other appropriate workers.

Support the clinical lead in the delivery of the service, ensuring and maintaining high standards of evidence based practice within the locality.

Promote positive team working by attending weekly base meetings. Discussing delegated work ensuring that work set and identified is feedback and completed.

Promote the health visiting team positively to other agencies and professionals.

Knowledge skills and experience required

Maintain a professional attitude at all times, in the best interests of the profession and in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct.

Work to agreed Trust Policies and procedures which support the Clinical Governance agenda.

Review and reflect on own practice through accessing clinical and restorative supervision.

Prioritise and attend team meetings to ensure communication within and outside the team.

Use information technology securely and conform with the organisations information governance policies.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Foundation degree Assistant practitioner /NVQ level 3 in early years care/Btec in early years or equivalent
• Completed Common Assessment Framework training or willing to undertake training
• Must have a willingness and commitment to undertake training as required for the role

Experience

Essential

• Must have a minimum of two years' experience working with children and families
• Experience in giving health advice to parents/carers and other agencies e.g. education staff
• Have an understanding of health promotion activities that promote positive outcomes for children and young people
• Must have experience in using Microsoft office/word/excel and be able to use social media Twitter and Facebook

Skills

Essential

• Be able to demonstrate organisational/planning skills
• Must demonstrate knowledge of the role of the school nurse team in the promotion of health and wellbeing
• Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of the need for confidentiality in all aspects of the work of the department
• Must have a knowledge and understanding of the principles of safeguarding vulnerable children/young people and adults
• Must be able to demonstrate ability to work in a team and independently
• Possess good interpersonal skills and be able to communicate with colleagues, other professionals and children, young people and their families

Other Job Requirements

Essential

• Must have a full driving licence, and access to a vehicle to undertake the community role
• Must be willing to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check
• Must be legally entitled to work in this country
• Must be prepared to work between 8am - 8pm and weekend if required
• Must be a non-smoker whilst on duty

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Coventry Health Visiting F65396

Moat House, 1 Winston Avenue

Coventry

CV2 1EA

Employer's website

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