Family Nurse - London, United Kingdom - Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

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Undertake home visits in accordance with FNP model. Use high level interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive information. Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change strategies.

Utilise specialist knowledge acquired through the FNP learning programme, events and other study, together with reflections on experience, to deliver the FNP programme effectively.

Work effectively in potentially highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g. safeguarding children or family breakdown.

Develop therapeutic relationships, requiring in-depth mental attention and concentration for extended periods, and promote adaptive behaviour change in the family home and other environments.

Use the six FNP domains as a framework for programme delivery.

This includes initiating CAF and taking lead professional role where required.

At all times keep the safety of the baby and the young person in mind, and work within local safeguarding policies as appropriate.

Act on own interpretation of assessed clinical situation within the home setting. Able to refer client onto other specialist services as required on own authority.


Contribute to the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme (HCP), including professional assessments of childrens growth, development and language skills.

Positively and effectively represent the vision and principles of the FNP programme in actions and communications to internal and external clients, stakeholders and services.

Manage own workload by working independently within appropriate occupational guidelines, referring to FNP Lead where appropriate. Act on own interpretation of assessed clinical situation within the home setting.

Able to refer client onto other specialist services as required on own authority.

Visit clients over a wide geographical area and within flexible working hours, this may include following families to neighbouring local authorities to enable them to continue to benefit from the programme.


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