Band 5 Healthy Child Programme Nurse

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

The closing date is 23 May 2025

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

In return you will be supported through preceptorship with an extensive training programme. We offer excellent development opportunities and have an ethos of Grow Your Own that can lead to the preparation and progression to the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing course.

As a registered nurse, the post holder will work within an integrated neighbourhood team contributing to and supporting the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme 0-19 services.

Within Leicestershire & Rutland the offer is 0-11 years. Working within Healthy Together, the post holder will contribute to improving access, identifying health needs, improving outcomes, and reducing health inequalities by providing a comprehensive neighbourhood-based service to meet the needs of local children, young people and their families.

Through a whole family approach, the focus will be on prevention of ill health, promotion of positive health and well-being and working collaboratively with the wider community.

As a member of the Healthy Together neighbourhood team the post holder will be responsible for taking an active role with the 0-19 service in the delivery of integrated health services.

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.

Date posted

29 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

003380

Job locations

County Hall

Penn Lloyd Building

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 8TB

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Please review the attached job description and person specification. This document outlines the full range of criteria that are required for the role. In your application, you can state how you meet the criteria in the job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Please review the attached job description and person specification. This document outlines the full range of criteria that are required for the role. In your application, you can state how you meet the criteria in the job description and person specification.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.