Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - Various Posts

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly ambitious, innovative, energetic, friendly, and high achieving 0-19 Public Health Nursing Servicewe are seeking to recruit Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (Health Visitors and School Nurses) who are passionate about wanting to lead and support the provision of high-quality service within our Partnership Protection Team and our Universal Teams.We know that our greatest asset is our employees, which is why for successful candidates we will recognise your NHS continuous service for the purposes of annual leave and sickness absence, and you can continue to access the NHS Pension Scheme if you are an existing scheme member.

To provide evidence based public health nursing practice that promotes and improves health and addresses inequalities at individual, family, and community level. Lead the delivery of the healthy child programme to improve health and wellbeing and safeguard children, young people, and families.

The Partnership Protection Team,specifically work with children and young people who are subject to safeguarding plans, providing targeted interventions to improve the health and wellbeing outcomes for this vulnerable group of children, young people, and families within the Borough.

Main duties of the job

You will need to be a registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN)with sound knowledge and understanding of the Healthy Child Programmeand related policies and pathways. You will need to be able to identify risk, assess, plan, and deliver care, providing evidenced based interventions to support children, young people, and families within Barnsley.Be a highly motivated, innovative, and adaptable practitioner who is committed totaking a child centred approach with the ability to identify health needs as early as possible and improve health and wellbeing by promoting health, preventing ill health, and reducing inequalities.You will need to be able to plan andprioritiseyour own workload and the ability to travel to a range of venues and settings is essential.

To join the PPT you will be an experienced SCPHN, with sound knowledge and understanding of the complexities of working with vulnerable families and the impact of abuse and neglect on child development with aproven ability to engage in effective multi-disciplinary teamwork.

Please state on your application your team preference.

About us

Barnsley is a place of possibilities. Our Barnsley 2030 Strategy details how we will work together to make Barnsley the best place it can be. This is an exciting time to join us, and the team has strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, making our work more effective in meeting the needs of our population and tackling health inequalities.

Here at Barnsley, we live and work by four important values: honesty, teamwork, excellent service, and taking pride in what we do.Our 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service is rated Outstanding by CQC. Aspart of our team, you can be sure we will do all we can to support you in being truly excellent. We offer a full induction programme, and excellent training packages to enable you to have the right skills to do your job, including regular supervision to help you recognise your continued professional development needs and support you to achieve your potential.

We offer working conditions that are flexible and agile that support good life work balance. By working together, with each other and with our communities, we can take pride in improving lives. There is so much happening in our thriving Borough and your talent and skills will help make Barnsley a place of possibilities.