Job summary
Come and join our friendly, welcoming, and inclusive 0-19 team and share our ambition to make a fundamental difference in improving the health and wellbeing of children and their families in Tower Hamlets.
Following a service review we have wonderful and exciting opportunities in Tower Hamlets for registered full and part time Community Staff Nurses who wish to join our progressive, innovative 0-19 service, and enhance their career by developing knowledge and skills about children and young people and families within Community settings.
Tower Hamlets is a stimulating place to work; it is an area steeped in history and culture. The borough covers a diverse range of localities, including most of the traditional East End, encompassing the historic Tower of London, St Katherines docks and Canary Wharf and its unmistakable skyline, one of the main financial centres in the UK. Tower Hamlets is also the location of Londons most famous markets two of these, Petticoat Lane, which can trace its origins back to the mid-19th Century and Spitalfields market, are both thriving areas.
There are excellent transport links to and within Tower Hamlets region.
We have excellent partnership working with Tower Hamlets Public Health service, Children and Family Centres, Early help, Primary and secondary Schools, and General Practitioners to enable the Best Start in life and optimisation of health outcomes for children and young people.
Interviews will be held on 21/05/25, 28/05/25
Main duties of the job
If you have a current NMC registration in any branch of nursing and you are passionate about the public health agenda and improving health outcomes for children, young people, and families we would love to hear from you.
Working across the 0-19 service our staff nurses will require a positive attitude towards actively engaging with a diverse range of clients in our community. You will be able to participate in child health screening, including, weighing, measuring, vision and hearing, health promotion, clinical duty, school drop in/Healthy Child clinics, antenatal contacts, 3 to 4 month and 812-month development reviews and supporting parenting in a variety of environments including the family home, clinics, schools and Childrens centres as well as via digital means.
Our highly regarded 0-19 service continues to build on success, providing high quality, innovative care. We are proud of our all our teams and their high levels of achievement, and so continue our journey we want to have the right staff with the right skills doing the right job and reward our staff with our fantastic package of support.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
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
Management and Leadership
- To ensure equity to service delivery and best practice
by participating in team meetings, meeting key performance indicators and
clinical governance priorities.
- To actively support
the effective functioning of the school
nursing teams as well as the
overall schools service, by being a positive and responsive role model for junior staff.
- To undertake any other duties as required by the
Locality Clinical Manager /Clinical Lead for service
across 0-19, as required, providing it is within
the incumbents sphere of competence.
- To participate in the education
and training of pre
and post registration students and assist in the induction of new
community staff.
- To participate in clinical and child protection
supervision and annual performance appraisal in line with the Tower Hamlets
GPCG policies.
- To maintain up-to-date and accurate records
of all children and young people seen on
relevant data systems, including EMIS and in accordance with local standards.
- To complete statistical data collection and
performance information in a timely manner.
- To identify
equipment and supplies
as needed.
- Meet with team members
on a regular basis to discuss in line with accountability and delegation pathways, report and
evaluate patient care.
- To support the team and service.
- To provide and receive
clinical supervision.
- To assist in induction
and orientation programmes, this will include
acting as preceptors/mentors
for new staff.
- To promote
a continuous learning
environment for colleagues and students within
the 0-19 services.
- Ensure
that all staff have access to information that enables them to practice safely
and effectively.
- To
begin to develop the necessary skills to be an effective leader and role model
for successive programme participants.
Partnership and Service
Users
- To ensure that there are opportunities for ongoing
involvement of children, parents, and carers in development of services and
quality assurance.
- To ensure clarity
about the role of the specialist school
nurse with staff,
parents/carers and colleagues within the health service, local
authority, and voluntary agencies.
- To work closely
with other members of the
school nursing team and collaborate with other health services and multi-disciplinary teams across
the PRUs and including the Looked After Children team.
Quality Assurance
- To ensure that there are Clinical Governance
mechanisms and effective monitoring systems in place to assure the quality of
the service.
- To be involved in feedback of audit results and
statistical data to staff and action planning based on those results. To ensure
that evaluation data is cascaded up to those in senior management who need to
be aware of it.
- To complete statistical data collection and
performance information in a timely manner.
- To participate in audits of case note quality on a termly
basis.
- Ensure statistical returns are completed
within agreed timescales by self and others.
- Support the implementation of appropriate operational frameworks and objectives as agreed by the team and service or the professional forum.
- Participate in service best practice and development groups as delegated
by the Senior Nurse/Manager.
- Contribute to the development and review of guidelines of the service.
- Contribute to audit programmes and support the application of findings.
- Maintain up to date knowledge of services available.
- Participate
in research projects and health surveillance programmes as delegated by the
Senior Nurse / Manager.
- To collect
relevant information as requested as delegated by the Senior Nurse / Manager.
- To use the Child Health Information System as necessary.
- To use IT facilities to support the writing of letters, emails,
reports and for audit
purposes.
- To
record all client, contact on NHS Computerised record keeping systems and diary
of non-clinical activities.
- To maintain contemporaneous, accurate
records, completed according
to GPCGs policy.
- To keep an electronic record for planning
and recording all work.
Revalidation and
Registration
- To act as a registered practitioner who is legally and
professionally accountable for own actions guided by the professional code of
conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
- Current Effective Status on the Nursing and Midwifery
Council (NMC) Registered Nurse.
- Communicate changes
to a Senior Nurse daily to aid care planning.
- Manage own workload
as part of the team, ensuring optimum
use is made of working time.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Management and Leadership
- To ensure equity to service delivery and best practice
by participating in team meetings, meeting key performance indicators and
clinical governance priorities.
- To actively support
the effective functioning of the school
nursing teams as well as the
overall schools service, by being a positive and responsive role model for junior staff.
- To undertake any other duties as required by the
Locality Clinical Manager /Clinical Lead for service
across 0-19, as required, providing it is within
the incumbents sphere of competence.
- To participate in the education
and training of pre
and post registration students and assist in the induction of new
community staff.
- To participate in clinical and child protection
supervision and annual performance appraisal in line with the Tower Hamlets
GPCG policies.
- To maintain up-to-date and accurate records
of all children and young people seen on
relevant data systems, including EMIS and in accordance with local standards.
- To complete statistical data collection and
performance information in a timely manner.
- To identify
equipment and supplies
as needed.
- Meet with team members
on a regular basis to discuss in line with accountability and delegation pathways, report and
evaluate patient care.
- To support the team and service.
- To provide and receive
clinical supervision.
- To assist in induction
and orientation programmes, this will include
acting as preceptors/mentors
for new staff.
- To promote
a continuous learning
environment for colleagues and students within
the 0-19 services.
- Ensure
that all staff have access to information that enables them to practice safely
and effectively.
- To
begin to develop the necessary skills to be an effective leader and role model
for successive programme participants.
Partnership and Service
Users
- To ensure that there are opportunities for ongoing
involvement of children, parents, and carers in development of services and
quality assurance.
- To ensure clarity
about the role of the specialist school
nurse with staff,
parents/carers and colleagues within the health service, local
authority, and voluntary agencies.
- To work closely
with other members of the
school nursing team and collaborate with other health services and multi-disciplinary teams across
the PRUs and including the Looked After Children team.
Quality Assurance
- To ensure that there are Clinical Governance
mechanisms and effective monitoring systems in place to assure the quality of
the service.
- To be involved in feedback of audit results and
statistical data to staff and action planning based on those results. To ensure
that evaluation data is cascaded up to those in senior management who need to
be aware of it.
- To complete statistical data collection and
performance information in a timely manner.
- To participate in audits of case note quality on a termly
basis.
- Ensure statistical returns are completed
within agreed timescales by self and others.
- Support the implementation of appropriate operational frameworks and objectives as agreed by the team and service or the professional forum.
- Participate in service best practice and development groups as delegated
by the Senior Nurse/Manager.
- Contribute to the development and review of guidelines of the service.
- Contribute to audit programmes and support the application of findings.
- Maintain up to date knowledge of services available.
- Participate
in research projects and health surveillance programmes as delegated by the
Senior Nurse / Manager.
- To collect
relevant information as requested as delegated by the Senior Nurse / Manager.
- To use the Child Health Information System as necessary.
- To use IT facilities to support the writing of letters, emails,
reports and for audit
purposes.
- To
record all client, contact on NHS Computerised record keeping systems and diary
of non-clinical activities.
- To maintain contemporaneous, accurate
records, completed according
to GPCGs policy.
- To keep an electronic record for planning
and recording all work.
Revalidation and
Registration
- To act as a registered practitioner who is legally and
professionally accountable for own actions guided by the professional code of
conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
- Current Effective Status on the Nursing and Midwifery
Council (NMC) Registered Nurse.
- Communicate changes
to a Senior Nurse daily to aid care planning.
- Manage own workload
as part of the team, ensuring optimum
use is made of working time.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current NMC Registration as a nurse (or qualifying within 4 months)
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of Safeguarding.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of Information, Clinical Governance and Clinical Effectiveness.
Knowledge
Essential
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development, willingness to develop.
Knowledge
Essential
- Infant Feeding and Healthy weight eg UNICEF standards.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current NMC Registration as a nurse (or qualifying within 4 months)
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of Safeguarding.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of Information, Clinical Governance and Clinical Effectiveness.
Knowledge
Essential
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development, willingness to develop.
Knowledge
Essential
- Infant Feeding and Healthy weight eg UNICEF standards.
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.
