2 x Family Nurse - 0-19 Service Waltham Forest

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

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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

Date posted

04 May 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,836 to £52,849 a year Including Outer HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours, Term time hours

Reference number

E0136-23-0007

Job locations

Chingford Health Centre

109 York Road

London

E4 8LF


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

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

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

Chingford Health Centre

109 York Road

London

E4 8LF


Employer's website

https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

Chingford Health Centre

109 York Road

London

E4 8LF


Employer's website

https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

Liana Gintautaite

l.gintautaite@nhs.net

07718422692

Date posted

04 May 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,836 to £52,849 a year Including Outer HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours, Term time hours

Reference number

E0136-23-0007

Job locations

Chingford Health Centre

109 York Road

London

E4 8LF


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