Band 5 Healthy Child Programme Nurse

Job summary

Exciting opportunities have arisen to join the 5 to 11 Leicestershire and Rutland school nursing team. Our team work within Public Health Nursing to deliver the Healthy Child Programme.

We are pleased to offer full and part time job opportunities location to be discussed at interview. Our core working hours are 8.30am-4.30 Monday-Friday.

Public Health Nursing seeks to promote and protect the health of children and young people.

We do this by promoting healthy lifestyles and reducing the likelihood of ill health through delivery of the Healthy Child Programme.

Public Health Nursing is central to giving children the best start in life and to reach their full potential. We offer early intervention as physical and mental health issues emerge, referring to specialist services as required.

We would love to meet you if you are an enthusiastic and self-motivated who nurse. Our teams are busy, high achieving and dynamic consisting of committed and skilled people who want to deliver the best possible care for children and their families.

School nursing offer a range of services to meet the varying needs of the local population, which includes our well-developed digital offer.

The successful candidates will be flexible team players and role models who are able to demonstrate a willingness to lead, support and implement change.

To achieve this, you will be committed to working in partnership with other key agencies and supporting the Public Health Nurse agenda.

Main duties of the job

• Delivery of effective health care within the organisation.
• Support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme using evidence-based practice to actively promote the health of children, young people and families.
• Develop, deliver and engage in health promotion programmes that aim to prevent ill health, support early identification of health needs and work with individuals, education and communities to reduce health inequalities.

Pre-school elements:

• Carry out universal and targeted 1 year development reviews
• Carry out movement-in contacts Universal 2-year review and delegated targeted 2 year development reviews

School age elements:

• Act as a named nurse for an identified group of schools within the neighbourhood
• 1-2-1 work for school-age child, working at Universal Plus and Partnership Plus levels Act as whole-family safeguarding caseload holder including strategy calls, Children in Need, children with Child Protection plans, universal contacts for children on the safeguarding caseload
• Deliver the Healthy Together continence offer
• Support early intervention and referral for emotional health issues
• Co-ordinate and support the completion of the year 7, year 9 and year 11 health questionnaires within Leicester City.
• Analysis of data generated to determine local needs which inform the neighbourhood health profiles

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. 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 serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. 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 can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. 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

County Hall

Penn Lloyd Building

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 8TB

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

County Hall

Penn Lloyd Building

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 8TB

Employer's website

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

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