Job summary
Are you a Registered Nurse looking for an exciting opportunity to develop and progress your career. Are you a newly qualified nurse interested in a preceptorship offer?
We are offering an opportunity to join our Health Visitor teams as a Community Nurse.
Main duties of the job
The role of the Community Nurse is integral part of the Health Visiting team, supporting the delivery of a community public health nursing service.
You will take delegated work and be responsible for your own caseload, having a degree of autonomy over your diary and workload planning. You will be providing assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the Healthy Child Programme
If you are interested in finding out more, please do not hesitate to contact:
Natasha Tootle (Team Manager) natasha.tootle@cornwall.gov.uk
Rebecca Springer (Team Manager) rebecca.springer@cornwall.gov.uk
Helen Spacey (Team Manager) helen.spacey@cornwall.gov.uk
This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.
Interviews are expected to be held week commencing 18th March.
About us
Cornwall Councils ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours.
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. Its a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.
This is a
position with Cornwall Council, candidates that are shortlisted will have
their details transferred to the Council's recruitment system.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are integrated with our Early Help and Social Care colleagues and share an integrated electronic record which supports communication and co-ordination.
Working in Cornwall has the added advantage also of having some beautiful rural areas and beaches which provide plenty of leisure opportunities to create a great work life balance. There are exciting opportunities to be part of partnership working groups and multi-disciplinary practice discussions to contribute, progress and lead innovative practice and, enhance effective partnership working with education, GPs, Childrens Services, Public Health and other key agencies.
We currently have full and part time posts across Cornwall:
- Penzance area
- Redruth area
- Truro area
- St Austell area
- Bodmin area
What you'll need to succeed:
You should be a Registered Nurse with experience of working with children and families being desirable. You will be working in community settings and will hold a delegated caseload, therefore time management and prioritisation skills are essential. You should be able to work alone and in a team with an ability to maintain electronic records.
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role.
What you'll get in return:
We offer a supportive supervision framework where you will be supported with your clinical caseload management, safeguarding children supervision and clinical restorative supervision.
We offer an extensive training and development programme, including a preceptorship package for those of you who are newly qualified.
We have an excellent career pathway within our service. We are keen to support and develop our own staff wishing to develop over the pathway.
We support those interested in progressing to the Band 6 Specialist Community Public Health Nurse. We support our Community Nurses to achieve the appropriate CPD and experience to apply for the course, over a period of approximately 2 years dependant on your previous experience and transferrable knowledge and skills.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are integrated with our Early Help and Social Care colleagues and share an integrated electronic record which supports communication and co-ordination.
Working in Cornwall has the added advantage also of having some beautiful rural areas and beaches which provide plenty of leisure opportunities to create a great work life balance. There are exciting opportunities to be part of partnership working groups and multi-disciplinary practice discussions to contribute, progress and lead innovative practice and, enhance effective partnership working with education, GPs, Childrens Services, Public Health and other key agencies.
We currently have full and part time posts across Cornwall:
- Penzance area
- Redruth area
- Truro area
- St Austell area
- Bodmin area
What you'll need to succeed:
You should be a Registered Nurse with experience of working with children and families being desirable. You will be working in community settings and will hold a delegated caseload, therefore time management and prioritisation skills are essential. You should be able to work alone and in a team with an ability to maintain electronic records.
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role.
What you'll get in return:
We offer a supportive supervision framework where you will be supported with your clinical caseload management, safeguarding children supervision and clinical restorative supervision.
We offer an extensive training and development programme, including a preceptorship package for those of you who are newly qualified.
We have an excellent career pathway within our service. We are keen to support and develop our own staff wishing to develop over the pathway.
We support those interested in progressing to the Band 6 Specialist Community Public Health Nurse. We support our Community Nurses to achieve the appropriate CPD and experience to apply for the course, over a period of approximately 2 years dependant on your previous experience and transferrable knowledge and skills.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- You should be an experienced Registered Nurse with experience of working with children and families.
- You will be working in community settings within Health Visiting and will hold a delegated caseload, therefore time management and prioritisation skills are essential.
- You should be able to work alone and in a team with an ability to maintain electronic records.
- Registered Nurse Qualification with current NMC Registration. Please include your NMC PIN within your application.
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Current professional registration- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
Experience
Essential
- Please see the attached Role Profile for more information on the knowledge, skills and experience required for this role. Please ensure you evidence within your application the criteria that are marked as 'Application'.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- You should be an experienced Registered Nurse with experience of working with children and families.
- You will be working in community settings within Health Visiting and will hold a delegated caseload, therefore time management and prioritisation skills are essential.
- You should be able to work alone and in a team with an ability to maintain electronic records.
- Registered Nurse Qualification with current NMC Registration. Please include your NMC PIN within your application.
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Current professional registration- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
Experience
Essential
- Please see the attached Role Profile for more information on the knowledge, skills and experience required for this role. Please ensure you evidence within your application the criteria that are marked as 'Application'.
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).
