- Must hold the qualification of RGN/RSCN Adult/Child Nurse and registered on the NMC.
- Willingness to undertake further training as required including the specialist practitioner course.
- Leadership Course, ability to demonstrate leadership skills.
- Mentoring & Assessing, , 998, CPD 308, C&G 730RegisteredNurse, assessor/ supervisor course.
- Must have post registration experience, minimum of 12 months.
- Must have experience of working with children, young people and /or families.
- Must have experience of working in teams
- Must be able to demonstrate knowledge of key performance indicators and how they influence service delivery
- Must be able to demonstrate ability to work collaboratively with children young people, families and other professionals
- Have an understanding and awareness of LSCP Child Protection policies and procedures.
- Must be able to support other team members to develop and apply their knowledge and skills.
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the public health role in school nursing
- Must be able to demonstrate knowledge of further reading
- Must possess basic IT skills able to use Microsoft office/word.
- Must possess basic social media skills to access and post on social media platforms eg face book, twitter and Instagram.
- Must be able to demonstrate ability to prioritise work delegated.
- Must have knowledge of the public health role in school nursing, and demonstrate issues affecting children & young people.
- Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of the need for confidentiality in all aspects of the work of the department.
- Must have knowledge of clinical supervision.
- Ability to remain calm and focused under pressurised situations
- Demonstrates compassion and empathy
- Self-motivated and can motivate and inspire others
- Professional presentation and communication style
- Embraces innovation and creativity
- Must have a full driving licence, and access to a vehicle to undertake the community role
- Must be willing to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check.
- Must be legally entitled to work in this country
- Must be prepared to work between 8am - 6pm and weekend if required
- All our staff will have a work base. However the Trust operates as an Agile Working Team therefore staff may be working from home on a regular basis as required by the service. However, occasionally travel around Warwickshire and into your base will be required so access to your own transport would be helpful.
Staff Nurse in School Nursing - Solihull, United Kingdom - South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Job summary
Staff Nurse in SOLIHULL School Nursing
Base: Solihull (Cranmore Place), B90 4RZ
Band: 5 Staff Nurse
Hours: Full-time
We are looking for an enthusiastic Registered Nurse, with a minimum 2 years post registration experience to join our dynamic and enthusiastic school nursing team.
As a Staff Nurse in the School Nursing Team, you will deliver the Healthy Child Programme (5-19), undertake assessments, interventions and Public Health Initiatives to give children the very best start for a healthy life.
You will need excellent organisational and personal skills, be an excellent communicator who can actively promote inter-agency working between other professionals and educational staff.
Having experience working in the Community or in a Paediatric Nursing Setting and knowledge of Child Development, Health Promotion, Public Health and Safeguarding Children would be an advantage.
You should have evidence of Continued Professional Development you will also require an enhanced DBS and be able to meet the travel requirements of the role. In return we offer a happy supportive team, excellent learning and development opportunities and a commitment to personal and professional development.
Informal enquires to Charlotte Atkins or Mary O'Sullivan
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for delivering and evaluating preventative services and universal Public Health Programmes, as set out in the Healthy Child Programme (HCP DH) for school aged children and young people, within both school and the surrounding community.
Undertake caseload work allocated by the school nurse including accepting and responding to re-assigned alerts, undertake secondary assessments, deliver brief interventions and feedback progress to the School Nurse.
Work with Children, young people, families, schools and communities to ensure the role and function of the School Nursing Service and how to access the service both outside of school hours and throughout the calendar year is known.
About us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Job descriptionJob responsibilities
Support the implementation and delivery of the Healthy Child Programme to the school age population. Supporting specific Public Health Initiatives for children and young people, sexual health, risk taking behaviour or emotional needs. Childhood obesity via the National Childhood Measurement Programme, promotion of healthy lifestyles, emotional health.
Support health needs assessment of reception Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) Year 6 and 9 Cohorts. Responding to identified need/allocated alerts and feeding back to school nurse outcome of intervention as required.
Undertake brief interventions to ensure timely response to identified need, feeding back to the school nurse as required.
Work in partnership with schools ensuring good communication between health and education.
Provide fortnightly drop-in session in senior schools, provide advice/support and referral as appropriate.
Support the school nurse to identify the needs of the geographical area by means of using profiling tools and accessing local data information from reliable sources, Chimat, Public Health Observatory to inform work undertaken.
Undertake health need assessments allocated by the school nurse, of children and young people, including, Child Protection Health Assessments reporting back findings to the School Nurse.
Identify and support children, young people and families in need of Universal Plus Services through The Team Around the Family (TAF) framework process.
Work with parents, carers, specialist health professionals and others to develop and review in-school care plans for pupils with complex health needs and long-term conditions annually or sooner if required. Including providing or coordinating support, education and training for families, carers and school staff.
Support children, young people and families during transition into school, and from primary to secondary including reviewing reception and year six questionnaires, acting on concerns raised, plan and evaluate support given and feedback to school nurse as required.
Have knowledge and understanding of Solihull Local Safeguarding Childrens Partnership policies and procedures. This includes initiating referrals to Childrens services when a child or young person is deemed at risk. As delegated by the school nurse provide written reports and chronologies as required, participating in strategies, initial case conferences, review case conferences and core groups where health needs are identified, and feeding back to the school nurse.
Act on/document if required, intelligence or surveillance received from other sources, A&E forms, domestic abuse referrals, priority families, excluded children.
Attend the Trust statutory and mandatory training programme specific to the role and ensuring training is completed as per the Trust Essential Skills policy.
Follow and adhere to the standards and guidelines set for School Nursing to ensure a consistent approach is followed.
Work with the School Nurse to ensure work is both researched and evidenced based.
Support the uptake of the childhood immunisation programme when opportunities arise with contacts with children, young people and families.
Plan, coordinate, and manage own work and prioritise competing demands with support and direction from Band 6 or 7 if required.
In accordance with the NMC and trust guidelines for record keeping, maintain and keep contemporaneous records in whatever form they present, text, phone calls.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required
Maintain accurate records at all times, in line with trust policy.
Ensure that confidentiality is upheld at all times, as per trust guidelines.
Attend the Trust statutory and mandatory training programme specific to the role ensuring that training completed follows the essential skills policy including regular appraisal.
Participate in/access group or team clinical supervision, including safeguarding supervision.
Participate in and contribute to team/locality meetings to keep up to date with trust information.
Measurable Result Areas
KPIs for the service are achieved.
Alerts from on line health needs assessents are responded to within agreed timescale.
Promote a whole school approach to obesity; proactively engage with 100% of pupils who have been identified as being obese (95 percentile) and 100% of pupils who have been identified as being clinically underweight.
Work as part of a team to ensure that key performance indicator targets set by the Trust/and or the local authority are reached for school nursing services.
Participate in clinical audits to improve service care and delivery.
Communications and Working Relationships
Support new staff and others into the Trust with induction/training programmes, and by undertaking a mentor/preceptor role.
Delegate work appropriately to School Nurse Assistants.
Supervise, mentor and assess nursing students where required and Post registration students undertaking community experience.
Support other team members to develop and apply their knowledge and skills.
Undertake appraisals for the skill mix team to promote staff development.
Prioritise and attend team meetings to ensure effective communication within and outside the team.
Undertake risk assessments as required, following Trust policy.
Ensure that the skill mix team receive clinical supervision appropriate to their role.
Person SpecificationQualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Skills
Essential
Personal Qualities
Essential
Desirable
Other
Essential