Specialist Community Public Health Nurse: School Nurse

Job summary

This is a fixed term 12 month contract to cover secondment

This is an excellent opportunity to join the Homerton School Nursing Service to progress and develop your leadership skills while strengthening your public health knowledge and skills in this specialist area all within a highly successful Trust. This post is only for candidates who are qualified school nurses who has undertaken training to be a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse: School Nurse

We are seeking Band 6 Specialist Community Public Health School Nurses, highly motivated, enthusiastic, innovative, and forward-thinking with a strong public health focus.

You must be fully committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our diverse population which is in the heart of London Borough of Hackney and the City of London. If you want to be part of our dynamic school nursing team, then this post is for you.

The post is school, and community based, at various sites as required by the needs of the service. We cover primary, secondary, special schools and Pupil Referral Unit (PRU), across a wide area with diverse needs to deliver the healthy child programme 5-19 (25 SEND).

This is an excellent opportunity to join the Homerton School Nursing Service to progress and develop your leadership skills while strengthening your public health knowledge and skills in this specialist area all within a highly successful Trust.

You must have SCPHN - School Nursing qualification and with current NMC registration.

Main duties of the job

• Delivering the Healthy Child Programme across the allocated schools, prioritising the specific health needs of individual children and young people where required
• Ensure all service delivery and practice undertaken with children and young people takes account of their disability, diversity and religious customs.
• Use evidence-based programmes to improve outcomes for children and young people in school and those who are home schooled.
• Plan, develop, implement and evaluate health improvement programmes that take place within the school setting or the community
• Initiative outreach clinics to enable parents and carers to access additional support and advice for their children
• Contribute to developing and or reviewing Standard Operating Procedures that facilitate good practice, and implementing these in all relevant aspects of practice and service provision
• Contribute and respond to public health guidance and health promotion needs as well as new ways of meeting population health needs
• Encourage service users to engage in health promotion and public health messages and enable them to provide appropriate lived experience to support the programmes
• Contribute and engage in effective ways of service delivery including the development and use of pathways that enable seamless service provision for service users

About us

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.

We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.

We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.

Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.

Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.

Employer details

Employer name

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

School Nursing Service

6 Orsman Road 3rd Floor School Nurses Office

Haggerston

N1 5RA

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

School Nursing Service

6 Orsman Road 3rd Floor School Nurses Office

Haggerston

N1 5RA

Employer's website

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

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