Central London Community Health Trust

Community Nurse - School Nursing

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Job summary

Community Staff Nurse: Richmond School Nursing - Band 5

2 x Term Time Only Post

The School Nursing Team is seeking dynamic individuals with a strong public health focus who are fully committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our diverse school aged population. You will be a highly motivated individual with an interest in proactively managing health promotion initiatives.

If you'd like an exciting and rewarding career in School Nursing, CLCH can offer you a great next step.

We're recruiting Band 5 Community Staff Nurse into an innovative, award winning and growing service. We cover primary, secondary and special needs schools across a wide area with diverse needs.

We offer support and mentoring from a great team including national School Nurse of the Year winners. You'll also be able to take on development and mentoring roles to help build your career and support our junior staff and student nurses. Our school nursing service has taken on four new boroughs in the last year and is building a reputation as one of London's strongest teams.

We deliver an excellent public health and child centred model of care, working with children aged 5-19, their families and education teams. We're looking for motivated and innovative school nurses keen to rise to the challenges of helping children.

Main duties of the job

We welcome applications from newly qualified and experienced Nurses. Some of the benefits of working with CLCH include: a robust preceptorship programme for the first 12 months, outstanding safeguarding support from our safeguarding team, and comprehensive suite of training for school nurses, which supports revalidation, professional development opportunities and clinical supervision, staff awards and annual educators/mentors conference to celebrate the outstanding contributions made by our staff.

We offer flexible working arrangements, childcare vouchers, subsidised access to sport and leisure facilities within central London, help with transport and annual season tickets, cycle scheme as well as the inner and outer high-cost area supplements for working in London with additional benefits.

If you could be a future School Nurse of the Year, CLCH would love to help you get there. If you would like to join our team and make a tangible difference to children, young people and families lives we would like to hear from you.

You must be a RGN Registered Nurse (Adult or Paediatric).

For informal discussions and tour of our sites please contact one of our team leads:

Micheala Anderson - Telephone: 07586 436 247

Email: michealaanderson@nhs.net

About us

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

Just as we care about our patients' wellbeing, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
Single occupancy accommodation in Central London - (we can help you find accommodation in London, support you with your deposit)
Support with gaining your driving license *T&C's apply
Car lease scheme *T&C's apply
Flexible working options
Annual travel card loan
Training, support and development in your career

To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, and disability. We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks.

Date posted

25 July 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£32,720 to £39,769 a year Per Annum, inclusive of HCAS pro rata (part time)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Term time hours

Reference number

824-SOUTH-9199

Job locations

The Causeway - Richmond

London

TW11 0JR

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide in conjunction with the School Health team an accessible, person centred, effective needs led public health nursing service to the 5-19 age population and their families within low complexity schools
To participate in service development and health improvement activities.
To work in collaboration with other health care and service providers, including school settings to identify and address health needs.
To be visible in schools on a regular basis, as agreed within the partnership agreement.
To monitor, maintain and develop the service.
To deliver the role specific elements of the Universal Healthy Child Programme 5-19 (DH 2009)
To collaborate with team colleagues in order to deliver the Quality Strategy objectives.Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide in conjunction with the School Health team an accessible, person centred, effective needs led public health nursing service to the 5-19 age population and their families within low complexity schools
To participate in service development and health improvement activities.
To work in collaboration with other health care and service providers, including school settings to identify and address health needs.
To be visible in schools on a regular basis, as agreed within the partnership agreement.
To monitor, maintain and develop the service.
To deliver the role specific elements of the Universal Healthy Child Programme 5-19 (DH 2009)
To collaborate with team colleagues in order to deliver the Quality Strategy objectives.Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

Essential

RGN/RN/RM
Current NMC Registration
Evidence of continuing professional development.

Desirable

RSCN, Children's Community Nurse with current registration
Practice assessor or practice based learning training or working towards

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

Essential

RGN/RN/RM
Current NMC Registration
Evidence of continuing professional development.

Desirable

RSCN, Children's Community Nurse with current registration
Practice assessor or practice based learning training or working towards

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Central London Community Health Trust

Address

The Causeway - Richmond

London

TW11 0JR

Employer's website

https://clch.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Central London Community Health Trust

Address

The Causeway - Richmond

London

TW11 0JR

Employer's website

https://clch.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)