Job responsibilities
The Role:
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
Alison Trebilcock (Team Manager)Alison.trebilcock@cornwall.gov.uk
This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.
What youll 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 provide your NMC number in your application
What youll 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.
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.
Our core employee rewards and benefits include:
a competitive salary.
a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
Additional Information:
The full role profile is attachedhere
Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstratewhy you are suitable against each of the points marked as Application on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here The application process.
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contactcareers@cornwall.gov.ukif you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
About Us
Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year.Find out more about working and volunteering for us.
We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be foundhere -flexible working options.
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, youngpeopleand adults at risk.Itsa vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.
