Family Nurse

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 16 February 2025

Job summary

We are looking to recruit a family nurse to join the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) team in Sunderland. This is an exciting, specialist post within the existing FNP team, which is part of the Growing Healthy Sunderland 0-19 service.

The post holder should have relevant experience of working with complex and vulnerable young parents and their babies.

The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a national evidence-based programme. The aim of the programme is to improve the antenatal health, child health and development and parents' economic self-sufficiency in disadvantaged young families. This role is responsible for delivering the FNP intensive, preventive home visiting programme to vulnerable, hard to reach young women who are expecting their first baby. Post holders will be required to develop high-level generalist and specialist skills to work within the clinical methods of the structured programme. Family nurses will be expected to develop therapeutic relationships with clients and work intensively within complex family situations to achieve the expected outcomes of the programme. This is a demanding specialist role requiring high levels of professional skills and practice and the ability to work as part of a team.

Main duties of the job

Principle Responsibilities1. To recruit and engage eligible, hard-to-reach pregnant young women to the FNPprogramme.2. To use programme materials and methods in the clients' homes in order to achievethe following;o improve the outcomes of pregnancy;o improve children's health and development by enabling parents to providemore sensitive and competent care of them; ando improve parental life-course by helping parents plan future pregnancies,complete their education, and find work.3. To work therapeutically with a range of family members to promote behaviourchange and positive outcomes for children and families.4. To take a lead professional role when required where children and young peoplewith additional needs require an integrated package of support from more than onepractitioner/service.5. Through continuous monitoring and engagement in reflective supervision, toensure that expertise in clinical methods are developed and maintained, that theservice offered is of high quality and the programme is implemented with fidelity.6. To work in collaboration with local statutory and mainstream services to ensure thatfamilies become confident in accessing a range of other universal health andsupport services and are ready to graduate from the programme when the child isbetween one and two years old.

About us

At Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff. We support staff through benefits, health and wellbeing initiatives and opportunities for personal and professional development.

An inclusive and supportive culture our Trust encourages staff to bring their whole selves to work and active Staff Networks identify areas for improvement.
Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise staff with our Making a Difference and Team of the Month Awards plus the Christmas Oscars.
Employee Support and wellbeing - we have a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and fast track physiotherapy service for employees.
Staff Benefits - We have a range of staff benefits and schemes to support staff health, engagement, wellbeing and inclusion.

Date posted

31 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

421-CYPD-1848R

Job locations

Unit 7 Camberwell Way

Doxford Park

Sunderland

SR3 3XN

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification. If you have any questions, please contact Angela Ward on angela.ward7@nhs.net

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification. If you have any questions, please contact Angela Ward on angela.ward7@nhs.net

Person Specification

Essential

Nursing or midwifery qualifications and registered with the NMC, Degree level or equivalent professional qualification Willingness to undertake specialist postgraduate training and be assessed on competence in clinical field following training
At least 2 years experience of working with families in deprived communities, At least 2 years experience of midwifery, child health, public health, home visiting. Experience of clinical supervision. Working with children & families. Working with young people
Understand the difference between advice giving and motivational approaches. Has some knowledge of the research base of NFP. Willingness to undertake personal study to develop understanding of a range of clinical areas. National and local safeguarding policies

Desirable

Masters level education
Attachment theory X Self-efficacy theory X Human ecology theory X Behavioural change theory. Parent/infant mental health

Person Specification

Essential

Nursing or midwifery qualifications and registered with the NMC, Degree level or equivalent professional qualification Willingness to undertake specialist postgraduate training and be assessed on competence in clinical field following training
At least 2 years experience of working with families in deprived communities, At least 2 years experience of midwifery, child health, public health, home visiting. Experience of clinical supervision. Working with children & families. Working with young people
Understand the difference between advice giving and motivational approaches. Has some knowledge of the research base of NFP. Willingness to undertake personal study to develop understanding of a range of clinical areas. National and local safeguarding policies

Desirable

Masters level education
Attachment theory X Self-efficacy theory X Human ecology theory X Behavioural change theory. Parent/infant mental health

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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