- To manage a defined caseload, using a public health approach to provide and maintain a high quality service that promotes the physical and mental health of the school aged population and their families.
- To lead to the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme 5-19 and co-ordinate the delivery of public health interventions for the post holders assigned schools under the direction of the Team Leader. This will include immunisations, health screening/surveillance health assessment and a requirement to support the health needs of any vulnerable children/young people within the caseload. Work in collaboration with partnership agencies to address the needs of vulnerable children including those on the child protection register.
- To provide cover in conjunction with other members of the school health team across WWL in times of annual leave and school holidays.
- The named School Nurse will be responsible for co-ordination of the School Health Plan with their named schools on an annual basis.
- Contribute to an integrated Public Health Nursing Service by linking to education settings and other partner agencies
- Lead on the recommended health assessment and reviews including School Health profiles as required.
- Lead and coordinate a core programme of interventions according to agreed procedures, ensuring that Trust targets are met.
- To lead, organise, coordinate and participate in the delivery of the national immunisation programme for school aged children.
- Plan, implement and evaluate interventions according to changing health needs to improve health outcomes. Consult, advise and educate children, young people and families to enable them to effectively manage their health needs.
- Where necessary carry out home visits to children and families advising on all aspects of health as appropriate.
- Working in partnership with other key stakeholders to safeguard and protect children and young people.
- To contribute and take part in regular team meetings and contribute to multi-agency groups as appropriate.
- Working collaboratively to support children and young people where there are identified health needs, or where they are in the child protection system, providing therapeutic public health interventions for the child and family
- Provide training where necessary to young people, parents, teaching personnel and other professionals.
- Provide signposting to other services and agencies, referring and liaising appropriately.
- Take and act upon referrals from other agencies and services, as appropriate.
- Provide a confidential support and advice service; that is easily accessible, for young people within a high school or other venue on a regular basis.
- Organise, facilitate and participate in health promotional and health educational activities in schools and community settings, working in partnership with school staff and with other statutory and voluntary agencies.
- Utilise opportunities to promote healthy lifestyles, positive mental health and the public health agenda.
- Ensuring children not in employment, education or training, or children educated at home receive the universal offer.
- Undertake nurse led immunisation programmes in schools and other venues following patient group directions, actively promoting the National and Local Immunisation Programmes.
- Complete PDRs as required to designated named staff within the team.
- Ensure performance data is collated in a timely manner.
- Maintain active status on NMC register acting in accordance with the professional code and guiding documents In adherence with Revalidation Framework.
- Develop a working knowledge and experience of IT systems
- Maintain contemporaneous, factual records in accordance with Trust guidelines and policies.
- Be aware of current working practices in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
- Manage their time effectively to ensure prioritisation of workload in order to achieve agreed deadlines.
- Be responsible for own professional updating and keep abreast of current research based practice.
- Participate in study days as appropriate and be aware of current developments and research within the area of practice.
- Observing the complaints and disciplinary procedures in accordance with the Trust policy.
- Report sickness absence and return relevant forms to line manager.
- Maintain portfolio of professional development.
- Prescribe safe, effective and appropriate medication as defined by current legislative framework and in line with organisational policies and only prescribe within their scope of practice, area of expertise and level of competence.
- Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national, local and organisational guidance and formularies.
- Provide supervision, where appropriate to support the skill mix team
- Undertake appropriate delegation within team.
- Ensure service information is disseminated to all team members in a timely fashion.
- Contribute and lead in service improvement initiatives.
- Support other School Nurses and staff within the team, including the induction of new staff members. Ensure effective learning experience and opportunities to achieve learning outcomes for skill mix team.
- Develop specialist knowledge and expertise in an area of practice appropriate to service needs and, act as a resource to colleagues and other professionals in the chosen area Asthma, Behaviour Management. Allergy etc.
- Develop and implement policies, procedures and guidelines relevant to own area of work. Provide advice where services are developing.
- Taking the lead in developing effective partnerships and acting as advocate delivering change to support improvements in health and wellbeing of school aged children.
- Ensure and be able to evidence that the experience and involvement of families, carers and children will be taken into account to inform service delivery and improvement.
- Collate local information utilising a school health profile to help inform the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.
- Identify and undertake clinical audit, evaluation and dissemination of results through presentation to professional groups and publications, in order to improve effectiveness of care and ensure effective and efficient use of resources.
- Participate in benchmarking, developing and implementing action plans resulting from these activities.
- Disseminate audit findings through presentation to professional and other groups.
- Lead on clinical audit within the team.
- Identify and make known any training needs through the Personal Development Review (PDR) process.
- Provide mentorship and preceptor ship to students and newly qualified staff as required.
- Support the development of the team by teaching and assessing junior members of the team.
- Undertake mandatory and statutory training and updating as required by the Trust.
- Actively participate in the Transformational Supervision sessions using reflective practice.
- Communicate effectively with individuals, families and professionals in planning and delivery of care; demonstrating empathy and reassurance in difficult and highly sensitive situations.
- Utilise a range of communication methods with colleagues and managers to include electronic communication.
- Work in partnership with school staff, health colleagues and other agencies Education and Social Services.
- Communicate complex information and provide specialist advice to clients/carers/professional agencies.
- Maintain contemporaneous and accurate WWL records observing the Data Protection Act 1994, maintaining confidentiality, in accordance with NMC and Trust guidelines
- Registered Nurse qualification (RGN,RSCN, MH, LD)
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN SN pathway)
- V100/V150 (or willing to work towards).
- Family Planning/Sexual Health/ CRASH 1.
- Mentorship qualification/ Experience of supervising and assessing students
- Post registration experience
- Experience of working in the community and/or with children, young people and their families.
- Safeguarding of children and implementation of policy and procedures with evidence of training/updates.
- Working understanding of the Health Child Programme.
- Knowledge and understanding of national and local current Public Health outcomes and inequalities
- Clinical supervision/ preceptorship
- Experience of team leadership and supervision teams
- HR skills programme
- Experience in leadership and supervising, disciplinary, grievance and capability issues
- Demonstrate leadership skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with children, young people and professionals.
- Ability to communicate unpleasant and highly sensitive and emotive information.
- Able to plan, prioritise and manage own workload.
- Demonstrates the ability to report concerns as appropriate.
- Ability to self-reflect and support others in the principles of reflective practice.
- Willingness to learn new skills Immunisation.
- Ability to work in an unpredictable and highly emotional demanding work setting.
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
- Able to perform assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care.
- Computer literacy/competent use of electronic patient record systems
- Experience of using Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint or equivalent.
- Has knowledge of Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
- Knowledge of NMC code and standards for professional practice.
- Knowledge of professional and NHS issues and policy relating to specialist area.
- Ability and enthusiasm to keep up to date and develop professional practice.
- The ability to travel independently across the Trust.
- Ability to work weekends/evenings according to Service requirements as part of an 'all year round' Service.
- The ability to work flexibly from a number of bases within WWL and provide cover in accordance with Service needs
- Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation
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Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - Wigan, United Kingdom - Wrightington Wigan & Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Job summary
We are looking to recruit a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - School Nurse who is passionate about public health and would like to work with our team of dedicated SCPHN practitioners. You would be the named School Health Nurse for identified High Schools/Colleges and a cluster of Primary schools. Working in integrated 0-19 teams to offer a collaborative approach to working with children, young people and their families.
This is a permanent full time position across Monday to Friday covering service hours between You must be able to make multiple site visits across the community every day which will involve transporting all required equipment.
The Trust is committed to Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable adults and the post holder will be required to keep this at the forefront of their practice. Early intervention is paramount to improving health outcomes, working collaboratively with early help partners and the newly developing family hubs supports the prevention and protection vision for community services.
An Enhanced DBS with checks against the Adults' & Children's Barred lists will be obtained during pre-employment checks.
Main duties of the job
Main Duties
Prescribing may be required as part of the duties of this post and post holders must have their qualification annotated on a professional register. Where a non-medical prescriber is appropriately trained and qualified and prescribes as part of their professional duties with the consent of their employer, the employer is held vicariously liable for their actions.
About us
Choose Well - Choose WWL
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that 'happy staff, makes for happy patients'. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement and living our values 'the WWL Way'.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information available by contacting where you can also ask about how to access vaccinations.
Job descriptionJob responsibilities
Planning and Organisational Duties
Clinical
Leadership
Research and Audit
Supervision and Development
Communication
Responsibility for Health & Safety
Compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 the post holder is required to fulfil a proactive role towards the management of risk in all of their actions. This entails the risk assessment of all situations, the taking of appropriate actions and reporting of all incidents, near misses and hazards, and a statutory duty of care for their own personal safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions.
Work Circumstances
Monday to Friday between
Person SpecificationQualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Skills
Essential
Desirable
Knowledge
Essential
Additional
Essential
Specialist Community Public Health Nurse professionals in Wigan
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