Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - Community Development

Job summary

At MPFT we pride ourselves on staff wellbeing and development and can we offer you:

• Our SOOTHE resources - supporting staff across the trust with their physical, mental and financial health. In addition to the support offered from our occupational health provider Team Prevent.
• Counselling support and lifestyle information with advice on a variety of personal matters
• "In our Gift" providing a platform for your voice to be heard to inform change
• The opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
• Opportunities for flexible working (depending on the role)
• Career development opportunities and coaching plus access to in house training programs
• Innovative research training program entitled STARS (Supporting the advancement of Research Skills)
• Child Care Vouchers Scheme
• Recognition and engagement through our staff LOVE awards, LOVE long service awards and Staff Engagement Surveys
• NHS discounts available via the Blue Card and Red Guava schemes

Main duties of the job

Be competent as appropriate to the requirements of the role. Demonstrate at all times the Partnership Trust Values of: "Putting Quality First, We Care About People and We Take Responsibility."Be a qualified health visitor or school nurse and have a detailed professional and clinical knowledge base. They will work autonomously and collaborate with partners in other services involved in locality community initiatives and community development in order to promote and facilitate the shift of provision of health services offered from the 0-19 service to be community focused where it is appropriate to do so and where they are not currently.Act to support best practice of service provision with partners and act as a resource regarding community initiatives for the locality 0-19 team.Act as a named practitioner in relation to communication with partners in relation to health initatives from the 0-19 service operated within the local community.To plan, deliver and evaluate training and update study days to service users and partners where this is required to deliver community focused initiatives.Be skilled in profiling health requirements of the population within a district and map current services available to meet these needs, and identifying areas for development, where they can support increased provision working with partners, to meet identified community health related need. Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to problems.

About us

By joining Team MPUFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, milage paid at business rate s
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.