Family Nurse Partnership Nurse

Job summary

Due to expansion of our team, a rare opportunity has become available to join Swindon Borough Councils Family Nurse Partnership Team due the retirement of a current team member. The Family Nurse Partnership is a national licenced programme that sits within Swindons Public Health Nursing Team. The Family Nurse Partnership team are a friendly, innovative and highly skilled team that come from a range of registered health backgrounds.

This is a demanding specialist role that requires a high level of professional skills and practice to work with young women who are expecting their first baby. No two days are the same in this challenging but rewarding role. The successful candidate must be friendly, energetic and resilient and have a proven history of engaging hard to reach cohorts.

Main duties of the job

As a registered nurse or midwife, you will have a strong knowledge and active working experience within the safeguarding arena that is essential for this role. The successful candidate must be adaptable and creative in their work, happy to use role play on a daily basis and create a safe space for clients to develop self-efficacy and skills for parenthood. Ideally they will have experience working within the Healthy Child Programme but a thorough knowledge of the impact areas will be accepted.

Full training will be given to the successful candidate, along with peer support, enhanced supervision packages and access to both National and local study days.

About us

Make a difference, make it better, make it right - putting Swindon and its people at the heart of everything we do.

We are committed to providing our employees with a diverse and exciting environment in which to work, encouraging creativity and innovation whilst recognising the need to support ongoing personal development and a flexible work life balance.

Our current benefits include:

Flexible working

28 days +8 Bank holidays

A career average revalued earnings (CARE) pension scheme

Purchase of annual leave

Leisure and Legal Services discounts

Eating Out, Shopping and Entertainment discounts

Candidates must be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the Immigration Act for the effective performance of a customer-facing role).

Please note Swindon Borough Council terms and conditions apply to this role.