Job summary
Family Nurse
1 x 30 hour permanent post
A fantastic opportunity has arisen to be a Family Nurse in Tameside. You will deliver the Family Nurse Partnership programme, which has evidence based outcomes, to a caseload of young vulnerable parents and their babies.
We are seeking a flexible, warm and innovative Family Nurse for our established Family Nurse team. You will need to have completed the FNP Family Nurse training programme and be highly motivated with a good understanding of infant psychology, building therapeutic and empowering relationships, safeguarding children, child development, and you will enjoy working with this age group of parent.
Family Nurse Partnership is well embedded within the local early help offer and is in its 9th year of delivering the programme to the young parents in the borough. Our multi-agency approach to parent-infant mental health and our early attachment service are already highly regarded, and as a Family Nurse you will work closely with these and other services.
Please note for this role you will be asked to undertake home visits and a car user is essential.
Main duties of the job
The Family Nurse role is responsible for delivering the FNP intensive and preventive home visiting service to vulnerable and hard to reach young woman who are expecting their first baby. The post holder will be required to develop high level generalist and specialist skills to work within the clinical methods of the service delivery. Family Nurses will be expected to develop therapeutic relationships with clients and work intensively within complex family situations to achieve the expected outcomes. This is a specialist role
About us
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children.Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
- Safety
- Care
- Respect
- Communication
- Learning
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+& Disabled people.
Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
ROFESSIONAL / CLINICAL: To recruit and engage eligible, hard-to-reach pregnant young women to the FNP programme. To use programme materials and methods in the clients homes in order to achieve the following; improve the outcomes of pregnancy, improve childrens health and development by enabling parents to provide more sensitive and competent care of them; and Improve parental life-course by helping parents plan future pregnancies, complete their education, and find work. 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. Through continuous monitoring and engagement in reflective supervision, to ensure that expertise in clinical methods are developed and maintained, that the service offered is of high quality and the programme is 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. Use high level interpersonal and communication skills toprovide and receive complex and often highly sensitiveinformation. Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change strategies.ADMINISTRATIVE / MANAGERIALPlanning and organising Manage own workload by working independently within appropriateoccupational guidelines, referring to FNP Lead where appropriate. Prioritise work; manage time effectively by utilising individual skills, knowledge and competencies.Responsibilities for Physical and / or Financial Resources Utilise FNP resources to plan for visits and develop packages of materials for theseResponsibility for Policy and Service Development and Implementation Positively and effectively represent the vision and principles of the FNP programme in actions and communications to internal and external clients, stakeholders and services. Propose changes to working practices or procedures for own work area as role evolves. Develop systems for user involvement and support clients to offer feedback on the service received, integrating this into local or national improvement measures. Develop local procedures for FNP, taking into account FNP National Unit guidance. Be aware of, inform and abide by, provider services approved policies, standards and quality assurance initiatives. Work within the clinical governance framework to ensure that governance is embedded in clinical practice. Monitor the quality of care delivery and record keeping, ensuring wherever possible that it is evidence based.
Job description
Job responsibilities
ROFESSIONAL / CLINICAL: To recruit and engage eligible, hard-to-reach pregnant young women to the FNP programme. To use programme materials and methods in the clients homes in order to achieve the following; improve the outcomes of pregnancy, improve childrens health and development by enabling parents to provide more sensitive and competent care of them; and Improve parental life-course by helping parents plan future pregnancies, complete their education, and find work. 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. Through continuous monitoring and engagement in reflective supervision, to ensure that expertise in clinical methods are developed and maintained, that the service offered is of high quality and the programme is 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. Use high level interpersonal and communication skills toprovide and receive complex and often highly sensitiveinformation. Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change strategies.ADMINISTRATIVE / MANAGERIALPlanning and organising Manage own workload by working independently within appropriateoccupational guidelines, referring to FNP Lead where appropriate. Prioritise work; manage time effectively by utilising individual skills, knowledge and competencies.Responsibilities for Physical and / or Financial Resources Utilise FNP resources to plan for visits and develop packages of materials for theseResponsibility for Policy and Service Development and Implementation Positively and effectively represent the vision and principles of the FNP programme in actions and communications to internal and external clients, stakeholders and services. Propose changes to working practices or procedures for own work area as role evolves. Develop systems for user involvement and support clients to offer feedback on the service received, integrating this into local or national improvement measures. Develop local procedures for FNP, taking into account FNP National Unit guidance. Be aware of, inform and abide by, provider services approved policies, standards and quality assurance initiatives. Work within the clinical governance framework to ensure that governance is embedded in clinical practice. Monitor the quality of care delivery and record keeping, ensuring wherever possible that it is evidence based.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Nursing or midwifery qualifications and registered with the NMC
- Degree level or equivalent professional qualification
- Completion of the FNP Family Nurse National Clinical learning programme
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working with families in deprived communities
- Significant experience of midwifery, child health, public health , home visiting and clinical supervision
- Working with children & families
Desirable
- Working with young people
- Working as a Family Nurse
Knowledge
Essential
- Understand the difference between advice giving and motivational approaches.
- Has some knowledge of the research base of NFP. Parent/infant mental health
- Willingness to undertake personal study to develop understanding of a range of clinical areas National and local safeguarding policies
Desirable
- Attachment theory, Self efficacy theory, Human ecology theory and Behavioural change theory
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- 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 to 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
- Basic computer skills to create reports, use email, read excel spreadsheets etc
- Able to analyse numerical data
Desirable
- Motivational interviewing.
- Counselling
Work Related Circumstances
Essential
- Committed to principles of FNP and a strong desire to see it succeed
- Resilient, Tenacious and persistent
- Empathic and non-judgemental
- Warmth and flexibility
- Self awareness
- Pursues own personal growth
- Has a learning style which readily accommodates skills practice and role play
- Able to travel independently
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Nursing or midwifery qualifications and registered with the NMC
- Degree level or equivalent professional qualification
- Completion of the FNP Family Nurse National Clinical learning programme
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working with families in deprived communities
- Significant experience of midwifery, child health, public health , home visiting and clinical supervision
- Working with children & families
Desirable
- Working with young people
- Working as a Family Nurse
Knowledge
Essential
- Understand the difference between advice giving and motivational approaches.
- Has some knowledge of the research base of NFP. Parent/infant mental health
- Willingness to undertake personal study to develop understanding of a range of clinical areas National and local safeguarding policies
Desirable
- Attachment theory, Self efficacy theory, Human ecology theory and Behavioural change theory
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- 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 to 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
- Basic computer skills to create reports, use email, read excel spreadsheets etc
- Able to analyse numerical data
Desirable
- Motivational interviewing.
- Counselling
Work Related Circumstances
Essential
- Committed to principles of FNP and a strong desire to see it succeed
- Resilient, Tenacious and persistent
- Empathic and non-judgemental
- Warmth and flexibility
- Self awareness
- Pursues own personal growth
- Has a learning style which readily accommodates skills practice and role play
- Able to travel independently
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
