Bank Senior Strengthening Families Practitioner - Carlisle, United Kingdom - North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Carlisle, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Strengthening families is a team made up of registered nurses, children's nurse, mental health nurses, health visitors and nursery nurses.

We have a partnership approach to meeting the health needs of Cumbrian families based on a model of holistic family care, the family are partners in the achievement of outcomes.

We work with families to identify health needs, offer support, implement a plan of care, signpost to other services and deliver the Healthy Child Programme.

The service is provided to families with children age 0-19yrs who have a Child in Need or Protection Plan, who are Children in Care or open to the Youth Offending Service.

We are looking to recruit a bank nurses to join our supportive and caring team.

This work will be predominantly completing Review Health Assessments for Children in Care, following up health actions and making referrals to other services.

Other aspects of Children in Care work will be required. Due to the area being covered some of this work may be completed through remote working.

We are looking for an experienced Registered Nurse/Sick Childrens Nurse ideally with experience working with children and their families in the Community.

We would prefer the applicant to have a particular interest in Safeguarding/Children in Care.

Strengthening Families service works alongside families to identify health needs, offer support, implement a plan of care, signpost to other services and deliver the pre-school Healthy Child Programme.

The service is provided to families with children age 0-19yrs who fit into the following categories - Child protection plan, child looked after and young people open to the Youth Offending Service.

We are looking to recruit a bank Health Visitor to join our supportive and caring team. This opportunity will give a Health Visitor in the Universal team an alternative practice experience alongside their current role.

At the moment this work will be predominantly completing Review Health Assessments for Children in Care, following up any health actions and making referrals to other services.

Other aspects of Children in Care work will be required. Due to the area being covered some of this work may be completed through remote working.

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people.

Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond.

We're responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time'.

Being a clinically led organisation
Quality and safety at the heart
A positive patient experience every time
A great place to work
Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030.

There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust's sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport and others.

We encourage you to think about what you can do as an individual and within your team to contribute in to embedding carbon reduction into the everyday running of our organisation.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see ourPolicyfor eligible vacancies?

Healthcare Professionals returning to practice, moving into new roles or changing clinical environments, may access an agreed preceptorship period.

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

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