Nursery Nurse

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to expand our established nursery nurse provision within Staffordshire 0-19 Family Health and Wellbeing service.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, passionate and motivated Nursery Nurse to join our expanding 0-19 Family Health and Wellbeing Service.

The nursery nurse role will offer one-to-one interventions to support parents/carers to develop skills and confidence in caring for their baby and to promote the mother and baby relationship.

You will be involved in the development of the nursery nurse role within the service whilst building and maintaining relationships with other services.

The role will involve working in a clinical setting across a geographical area, some home visits will be expected too.

The nursery nurse role is a vital in contributing to the multidisciplinary team approach of care to families.

We have provisions to work from several bases in the geographical area of Staffordshire in addition to home working, and remote working.

Main duties of the job

• To provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, where persuasive, motivational, negotiating, empathic and reassurance skills are required as there maybe barriers to understanding including language or learning difficulties.
• To develop and implement an innovative approach to working with families and other agencies.
• Professional childcare knowledge acquired through NNEB or equivalent and has attended short courses to enhance learning and can demonstrate this in practice.
• To be able to adapt to a range of work procedures and practices which vary day by day.
• To continue to develop skills through training.
• To demonstrate significant experience working with children with complex needs.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, 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, mileage paid at business rates
• 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.