Band 4 Healthy Child Programme Practitioner, School Nursing

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the South Leicestershire and Harborough Healthy Together Team within school nursing. Our teams work within Public Health Nursing to deliver the Healthy Child Programme.

We would love to meet you if you are an enthusiastic and self-motivated person who has the desired qualification or has experience of working with children, young people and families. In the County we are a school 5-11 service. Our teams are busy, high-achieving, supportive and dynamic in the delivery within the local community.

Public Health Nursing is a discipline of its own, which seeks to promote and protect the health of school-aged children and young people, through early intervention and health promotion in variety of settings.

Our teams are full of committed and skilled people who want to deliver the best possible care for children and their families. Healthy Together offer a range of services to meet the varying needs of the local population, which includes our well-developed digital offer. This includes the award-winning Chat Health text messaging service.

The successful candidate will be a flexible team player and committed to working as part of a team to support delivery. We are looking for people with energy and enthusiasm who have a passion to support children and young people and their families.

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS IS 20.08.2023. THIS VACANCY WILL CLOSE ONCE WE HAVE ENOUGH APPLICANTS THEREFORE, DO NOT DELAY IN SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION.

Main duties of the job

The Healthy Child Programme Practitioner (HCPP) will undertake health promotion activities including supportive behaviour management strategies with Universal and Universal plus Partnership plus children and their families, delegated by the Public Health Nurse as outlined in the Standard Operating Guidelines (SOG) for Leicestershire and Rutland and associated pathways.

The post holder will be responsible for planning, delivering and evaluating a range of public health activities and packages of care on a 1:1 basis or in groups for example;

• Defined packages of care for sleep, behaviour
• Review assessments for children with self-harm and emotional health issues where risk is assessed to be acceptable by PHN
• Healthy Bladder/Bowel workshop delivery
• Healthy Bladder/Bowel Reviews
• Delivery of parent/carer public health information sessions
• Lead and coordinate Public Health programmes for identified neighbourhoods
• Promotion of nutrition and healthy weight and obesity prevention in group setting or 121 follow up advice
• Support National Childhood Measurement Programme (NCMP)

For further information please contact:

Beth Logan Clinical team Leader 07826923424

About us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

South Wigston Health Centre

80 Blaby Road

Wigston

Leicestershire

LE18 4SE

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

South Wigston Health Centre

80 Blaby Road

Wigston

Leicestershire

LE18 4SE

Employer's website

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

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