Newly Qualified Specialist Public Health Nurse - H Visitor or Sch Nrs

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for their own caseload as an autonomous practitioner. In doing so, they will assess, plan, deliver and evaluate care to a specialist level ensuring that they practice within their sphere of competence and knowledge. The post holder will work to NMC standards and guidance at all times ensuring that their practice is grounded in evidence based theoretical and practical knowledge.

Clinical

• Demonstrates innovative and specialist skills to select methods and tools to holistically assess, plan, implement and evaluate in a complex and specialised field of work.
• Makes consistent judgements requiring complex fact analysis, interpretation and comparison of options and ensures clinical reasoning is reflected accurately in case records
• Engages and actively involves children, young people and their families in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care by using person-centred techniques to promote a culture of involvement and empowerment
• Prioritises their own workload, and that of the wider team, within agreed objectives deciding when to refer to others as appropriate.
• Provides and receives complex, sensitive or contentious information where motivational, persuasive, empathetic, negotiating and reassurance skills are required whilst demonstrating an understanding of barriers to communication
• Approaches each individual and family with care, compassion and sensitivity ensuring that these values are reflected in all areas of practice including the management of any complaints and compliments.

Leadership

• Ensures that a professional service and image is maintained at all times, thereby acting as a role model to all staff
• Provides a leadership style which is underpinned by strongly held values around equality, diversity and openness; effectively builds and maintains relationships with direct reportee(s), management teams and other key individuals across the organisation.
• Demonstrates the ability to delegate, organise and prioritise workload to ensure the safe delivery of the service including the management of referrals and making judgements in complex situations
• Demonstrates clinical leadership, initiative and creativity in developing projects inspiring others to be positive in their contribution to continuous improvement
• Demonstrates resilience when responding to challenge, change and complex or difficult situations
• Clearly articulates the expected clinical standards of the service, monitors and identifies where standards are not met and takes action to address

Learning and Development

• Undertakes any training required to develop and maintain their proficiency in response to changes in service delivery or new and emerging techniques and demonstrate competence within professional body requirements
• Reflects on and evaluates own practice and identifies areas of development by setting appropriate objectives via appraisal and clinical supervision
• Undertakes supervision and is responsible for teaching and training both inside and outside work area.
• Supports the learning and development of others including students and preceptees

Partnership and Team Working

• Actively develops and maintains effective clinical and corporate working relationships both within and outside the Trust including with other agencies and Higher Education Institutes
• Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships in order to improve and develop service delivery.
• Actively contributes to the multi-disciplinary team supporting the child, young person and family including communication with external care providers, voluntary support services and other agencies; acting as a credible source of information for other agencies/professionals involved in the care as required

Innovation and Quality

• Implements, monitors and maintains agreed standards of care, reporting to the team/service manager when standards are not met 
• Identifies areas for improvement within own service and proactively addresses these within the overall organisational governance frameworks and corporate objectives reflecting the changing needs of the population, local and national initiatives
• Actively works to continually improve the quality of own service within the overall organisational governance frameworks and corporate objectives e.g. through audit or suggesting changes to practice 
• Contributes to and undertakes clinical audit 
• Works with managers and colleagues to identify, manage and minimise risks within the overall organisational risk management frameworks. This includes understanding and applying knowledge of clinical role in safeguarding and actively leading incident management processes 
• Acts as an advocate for children, young people and their families/carers recognising the boundaries of their clinical knowledge; liaising and referring on to other services / agencies as required 
• Ensures that patient experience is core to all clinical and service development gaining support from the appropriate corporate teams as required 
• Actively ensures completion of required data in a timely manner in order to meet the Quality Framework requirements, outcome measures and best practice standards in order to deliver an effective, high quality service

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional degree or diploma in relevant field
• Post Graduate qualification in specialist field
• Appropriate NMC registration
• Must be willing to participate in any relevant training identified to develop skills required to carry out duties
• Maintains a portfolio of CPD in line with regulatory body standards

Desirable

• Supporting Learning in Practice (SLIP) or equivalent
• Leadership and management training

Experience

Essential

• Experience in the clinical field or a closely related clinical area as part of a wider multidisciplinary team
• Experience in supervising and delegating to other members of staff

Desirable

• Working in community
• Experience of managing staff

Skills and Attributes

Essential

• Specialist assessment, planning and evaluation skills
• Complex analytical and creative problem solving skills in unpredictable situations
• Workload management including delegation of tasks and day-to-day team leadership
• Competent IT skills in order to collect and interpret data, present reports and compile simple presentations
• Effective verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills including communicating complex or potentially distressing information to patients / carers and managing conflict when appropriate
• Risk assessment skills
• Reflective practice skills able to give clear and effective feedback
• Able to research, understand and evaluate evidence in order to contribute to practice development
• Displays care, compassion, sensitivity and responsiveness to other peoples feelings and needs
• Able to work as part of a team, co-operating to work together and in conjunction with others and willing to help and assist wherever possible and appropriate appreciating the value of diversity in the workplace
• Able to develop, establish and maintain positive relationships with others both internal and external to the organisation and with patients and their carers
• Able to work under pressure, dealing with peaks and troughs in workload managing unpredictable service demands
• Positive and flexible attitude to dealing with change;
• willing to change and accept change and to explore new ways of doing things and approaches
• Highly motivated and reliable

Desirable

• Experience in research and/or clinical audit

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Stockdale House, Headingley Office Park

Victoria Road

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS6 1PF

Employer's website

https://www.leedscommunityhealthcare.nhs.uk/join-our-team1/ (Opens in a new tab)