Job summary
An opportunity has arisen to join The Family Nurse Partnership
(FNP) team in Waltham Forest.
This role is responsible for delivering the FNP intensive, preventative 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 level of safeguarding expertise, strong interpersonal
skills and emotional resilience. The job role requires ability to work as part of a team as
well as an autonomous practitioner.
Applicants invited for the interview will require to do a 5-8mins presentation please present a project idea which could improve/benefit the lives of Waltham Forest young people if funding was no issue. We encourage you to be as innovative and creative as you desire.
NB: The successful candidate must be able to attend FNP foundations training, a 4 night residential course, from 10th 14th July 2023.
Main duties of the job
1. To recruit and engage eligible, hard-to-reach pregnant young women to the FNP
programme.
2. To use programme materials and methods in the clients homes in order to achieve
the following;
-
improve the outcomes of pregnancy;
-
improve childrens health and development by enabling parents to provide
more sensitive and competent care of them; and
-
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 behaviour
change and positive outcomes for
children and families.
4. To take a lead professional role when required where children and young people with additional needs require an integrated package of support from more than one practitioner/service.
5. Through continuous monitoring and engagement in reflective supervision, to
ensure that expertise
in clinical methods are developed and maintained, that the service
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 that families become confident in accessing a range of other universal health and support services and are ready to graduate from the programme when the child
is two years old.
About us
Tower Hamlets
GP Care Group (the Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company
limited by shares in September 2014.
Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care
Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices,
deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the
provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.
Read up more about Tower Hamlets here:http://www.towerhamlets.is/
The Care
Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated
partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the
London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.
The key priorities for the Care Group are:
- Innovation
and support for primary care
- Being
a great place to work
- Integrating
primary and community care
- Providing
of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
- Influencing
improvements in health outcomes
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Undertake home visits in accordance
with FNP model.
- Use high level interpersonal and
communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive
information. Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational
interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change
strategies.
- Utilise specialist knowledge acquired
through the FNP learning programme, events and other study, together with
reflections on experience, to deliver the FNP programme effectively.
- Work effectively in potentially
highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g. safeguarding
children or family breakdown.
- Develop therapeutic relationships,
requiring in-depth mental attention and concentration for extended periods, and
promote adaptive behaviour change in the family home and other
environments.
- Use the six FNP domains as a
framework for programme delivery.
- Use professional and clinical
judgement to undertake detailed assessments of clients and their families and
analyse complex family situations in order to develop appropriate clinical
interventions.
- Actively engage and work with
fathers and other members of the extended family to achieve positive outcomes
for children.
- Apply knowledge and skills to a range
of clinical and family situations.
- Work within the FNP model to initiate,
plan and co-ordinate clients care in consultation and collaboration with other
professionals and agencies involved in providing services to women and their
families. This includes initiating CAF and taking lead professional role where
required.
- At all times keep the safety of the
baby and the young person in mind, and work within local safeguarding policies
as appropriate.
- Act on own interpretation of assessed
clinical situation within the home setting. Able to refer client onto other
specialist services as required on own authority.
- Contribute to the delivery of the
Healthy Child Programme (HCP), including professional assessments of childrens
growth, development and language skills.
- Positively and effectively represent
the vision and principles of the FNP programme in actions and communications to
internal and external clients, stakeholders and services. 15. Manage own workload by working
independently within appropriate occupational guidelines, referring to FNP Lead
where appropriate.
- Act on own interpretation of assessed
clinical situation within the home setting.
- Able to refer client onto other
specialist services as required on own authority.
- Visit clients over a wide
geographical area and within flexible working hours, this may include following
families to neighbouring local authorities to enable them to continue to
benefit from the programme.
- Propose changes to working practices
or procedures for own work area as role evolves.
- Complete full, accurate and
contemporaneous records.
- Create regular reports on local site
replication performance for the programme board.
- Analyse reports on data for service
development and develop quality improvement measures to assure data quality,
completeness and accuracy, as well as improvements in programme delivery.
- Develop systems for
user involvement and support clients to offer feedback on the service received,
integrating this into local or national improvement measures.
- Develop local procedures for FNP, taking
into account FNP National Unit guidance.
- Be aware of, inform and abide by
provider services approved policies, standards and quality assurance
initiatives.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Undertake home visits in accordance
with FNP model.
- Use high level interpersonal and
communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive
information. Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational
interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change
strategies.
- Utilise specialist knowledge acquired
through the FNP learning programme, events and other study, together with
reflections on experience, to deliver the FNP programme effectively.
- Work effectively in potentially
highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g. safeguarding
children or family breakdown.
- Develop therapeutic relationships,
requiring in-depth mental attention and concentration for extended periods, and
promote adaptive behaviour change in the family home and other
environments.
- Use the six FNP domains as a
framework for programme delivery.
- Use professional and clinical
judgement to undertake detailed assessments of clients and their families and
analyse complex family situations in order to develop appropriate clinical
interventions.
- Actively engage and work with
fathers and other members of the extended family to achieve positive outcomes
for children.
- Apply knowledge and skills to a range
of clinical and family situations.
- Work within the FNP model to initiate,
plan and co-ordinate clients care in consultation and collaboration with other
professionals and agencies involved in providing services to women and their
families. This includes initiating CAF and taking lead professional role where
required.
- At all times keep the safety of the
baby and the young person in mind, and work within local safeguarding policies
as appropriate.
- Act on own interpretation of assessed
clinical situation within the home setting. Able to refer client onto other
specialist services as required on own authority.
- Contribute to the delivery of the
Healthy Child Programme (HCP), including professional assessments of childrens
growth, development and language skills.
- Positively and effectively represent
the vision and principles of the FNP programme in actions and communications to
internal and external clients, stakeholders and services. 15. Manage own workload by working
independently within appropriate occupational guidelines, referring to FNP Lead
where appropriate.
- Act on own interpretation of assessed
clinical situation within the home setting.
- Able to refer client onto other
specialist services as required on own authority.
- Visit clients over a wide
geographical area and within flexible working hours, this may include following
families to neighbouring local authorities to enable them to continue to
benefit from the programme.
- Propose changes to working practices
or procedures for own work area as role evolves.
- Complete full, accurate and
contemporaneous records.
- Create regular reports on local site
replication performance for the programme board.
- Analyse reports on data for service
development and develop quality improvement measures to assure data quality,
completeness and accuracy, as well as improvements in programme delivery.
- Develop systems for
user involvement and support clients to offer feedback on the service received,
integrating this into local or national improvement measures.
- Develop local procedures for FNP, taking
into account FNP National Unit guidance.
- Be aware of, inform and abide by
provider services approved policies, standards and quality assurance
initiatives.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Nursing or midwifery qualification and registered with the NMC.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of national and local safeguarding policies.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to analyse numerical data.
Experience
Essential
- At least 2 years experience of working with families in deprived communities.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to manage exposure to distressing life events and stressful complex partnerships.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Nursing or midwifery qualification and registered with the NMC.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of national and local safeguarding policies.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to analyse numerical data.
Experience
Essential
- At least 2 years experience of working with families in deprived communities.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to manage exposure to distressing life events and stressful complex partnerships.
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
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).
