Job summary
- Main area
- School Nursing
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 1 year (Contract End Date - 31 MARCH 2026)
- Hours
- Full time
- Term time hours
- Job ref
- 824-SOUTH-6895184
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lavender Steers Mead Children's Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £42,939 - £50,697 per annum, inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
School Nurse (SCPHN) and Public Health Quality Fellow
Band 6
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
Are you a qualified Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nursing) or due to qualify soon?
Do you want to make a difference and be part of further developing our service?
We have an exciting opportunity for School Nurses (SN) with a passion for public health and the search for health needs to become SN Public Health Quality Fellow. You will be a part of the School Nursing team, which is within the Public Health 0-19 services in Merton.
You will undertake the School Nurse role for 80% (4 days) of your clinical time. 20% (1 day) of your role will be dedicated to working within a structured 6-9 month work-based programme that will be supervised by the CLCH Public Health Nurse Consultant. You will identify, design and manage a project focusing on health at a population level, looking at ways to make communities and environments healthier, reducing ill-health and tackling health inequalities. The CLCH Quality Improvement team will support your project design, providing training and project support to develop you in your public health project.
The practitioner must be a Registered Nurse with a Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Qualification (School Nursing).
The applicant should demonstrate leadership skills, knowledge of safeguarding and child protection processes and offer flexibility in managing their caseload.
Main duties of the job
To plan, organize and evaluate an innovative School Nursing service, and where appropriate, delegate to other members of the School Health team to ensure delivery of a high quality service
To provide a skilled, effective and evidence-based School Nursing service to clients in a variety of community settings.
To work in collaboration with other health care and service providers to ensure seamless delivery of services for clients and communities
To collaborate with team colleagues in order to deliver the Quality Strategy objectives
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- Registered School Nurse (SCPHN)
- Current NMC registration
- Evidence of continuing post-registration education and training
- Practice assessor/supervisor training or working towards
Experience
Essential criteria
- School nurse experience
- Be able to co-ordinate health promotion initiatives in line with local and national health improvement targets
- Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working
- Experience of organising and managing own workload and that of others
- Experience of assessing, planning, and implementing programmes of care and writing care plans
- Experience in providing practice-based learning support to others.
- Experience of evidence-based care.
- Experience of supervising st af f / students
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of recent developments in primary care
- Knowledge of current health and social care agenda relevant to area of work and professional practice
- Knowledge of current health legislation [including Change for Children agenda, Children’s Plan etc
- Current knowledge of child protection issues
- Appropriate knowledge of clinical skills
- Knowledge of quality issues, the audit process and clinical governance
- Knowledge of NMC Code
- Knowledge of Personal Development Planning
- Knowledge of clinical supervision
- Knowledge of how equal opportunities can be implemented in practice.
- Knowledge of managing difficult situations and conflict resolution
- Ability to work without direct supervision and plan, organise, review, and prioritise own workload and others.
- Able to delegate work effectively and safely.
- Ability to be flexible and responsive to
- Be able to identify and access sources of information to inform practice
- Critical appraisal skills and ability to utilise research evidence in practice
- Good communication skills, both written and verba
- Able to adapt to change and have an open approach to new ways of working.
- Office management and caseload organisational skills
- Able to work in a team.
- Motivated to learn and develop to meet the needs of the service.
- Willingness to facilitate and support the learning of others in the practice environment
Other
Essential criteria
- Able to carry out the duties of the post.
- Able to travel round the locality [car/bike/public transport/foot]
- Able to provide evidence of where you have demonstrated the Trust’s Values and Behaviours
- Able to demonstrate excellence in Customer Service
- Able to meet the required IT Skills for the post
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jessica Streeting
- Job title
- Nurse Consultant for Public Health
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07557151944
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