Fixed Term Band 5 Staff Nurse (Health Visiting)

Job Introduction

We are looking for a dedicated and motivated Band 5 Staff Nurse (Health Visiting).

The Health Visiting Staff Nurse is a registered nurse working as part of the Health Visiting Team providing preventative and supportive health care to children and families in Bath \& North East Somerset. This includes the identification, monitoring and provision of targeted support to vulnerable children and those whose welfare and safety may be at risk. The successful candidate will works as a member of the Health Visiting Team maintaining a public health focus under the supervision of a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) to deliver the Healthy Programme in a variety of settings including the home and community venues as delegated by the Health Visitor.

Base:

The role Is based at St Martins Hospital - Kempthorne House.

Please note that this role is part-time working 22.5 hours per week and is a fixed-term contract for 1 year.

Main Responsibilities:

• Work within the boundaries of the Staff Nurse Competency framework
• Work with the Health Visiting Team to achieve Key Performance Indicators
• Work in partnership with children and families to identify any health needs at the earliest opportunity and to provide appropriate support to achieve positive outcomes.
• To work in partnership with Early Years Services in the community such as Children’s Centres and Early Years settings.
• To support Infant feeding and parent infant relationships by adhering to the Baby Friendly Initiative Standards
• To complete the Family Health Needs assessment for allocated mandated reviews and update the SCPHN (Health Visitor) with any areas of concern.
• To provide support to families using the Solihull Foundation Approach model and Five to Thrive trauma-informed practice in behavioural management, parenting skills and in the delivery of programmes of care to vulnerable families as identified by the SCPHN Health Visitor.
• To provide ongoing support and intervention to allocated families and updating the SCPHN health visitor when significant changes occur.

Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities.

We’d love to hear from you if you match the following:

Essential:

• NMC registration in a field of nursing.
• Experience in working with children and families.
• Holds a full UK driving license and has access to a vehicle for work purposes.
• Knowledge of national and local policy in Children’s Service and Public Health.
• Understanding of child development.
• Able to demonstrate a commitment and ability to promote and safeguard the welfare of children and families with the skills to build sustainable professional boundaries.

Desirable

• Registered Children’s Nurse
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary environment.
• Knowledge of behaviour change theory.
• Practice supervisor/practice assessor qualification
• Interest in undertaking the SCPHN qualification

Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.

Package Description

As a Band 5 Staff Nurse you will be part of our valued team in our 0-19 Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 5 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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