Family Nurse Partnership Supervisor | Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 22 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50,952 - £57,349 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 June 2024 |
| Location: | Huntingdon, PE29 7HN |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Tr |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6336564/448-CCYP-6336564 |
Summary
*Please note that this vacancy is only open to employees of Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust only*
A unique opportunity has arisen for a secondment as Family Nurse Supervisor across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
If you are passionate about working with young parents, are warm, reflective, flexible and motivated to work in a strength-based way to achieve the intended outcomes of the FNP programme, we would love to hear from you.
The post holder will be responsible for leading and managing the work of the family nurses and Quality Support Officer. This is a demanding role which includes providing in depth clinical, management and child protection supervision to the family nurses, maintaining the integrity of the programme, taking responsibility for quality assurance and improvement in line with the licence requirements, overseeing recruitment of eligible pregnant young women, building local relationships and facilitating continual learning and improvement.
Successful applicants must be able to attend mandatory, residential training throughout the coming year at Yarnfield Conference Centre (dates to be confirmed)
You must hold a first-Level Degree and have significant community nursing/midwifery experience. You need to have knowledge of the current public health agenda andmust have significant experience of working in the community with vulnerable and complex families. Safeguarding Children is a fundamental role of this post and you will have sound knowledge and significant experience of safeguarding children.
The Family Nurse Supervisor will provide in depth clinical and safeguarding supervision to the family nurses as well as facilitating team learning days every month.
You will be responsible for maintaining the quality and integrity of the programme ensuring fidelity goals and core model elements of the license are met.
You will oversee and be responsible for recruitment and engagement of hard-to-reach families, building robust local stakeholder relationships and facilitating the FNP knowledge and skills exchange programme.
You will be responsible for Quality and Service improvement. In addition you will also hold a small caseload of families where you will demonstrate your persistence in achieving equal outcomes for disadvantaged families.
You will be a key member of the Children and Young people senior management team and proactively support the integration of the family nurse team into the wider children and young people's 0-19 service.
Peterborough and Cambridgeshire is a large County and travel around the County is an expectation of this role.
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
Job Purpose:
The post holder is responsible for leading and managing the work of the family nurses and Quality Support Officer. This is a demanding role which includes providing in depth clinical, management and child protection supervision to the family nurses, maintaining the integrity of the programme, taking responsibility for quality assurance and improvement in line with the licence requirements, overseeing recruitment of eligible pregnant young women, building local relationships and facilitating continual learning and improvement. In addition, the post holder will also hold a small caseload of families to whom they deliver the programme. The role combines clinical practice, leadership, management, supervisory and a teaching role andrequires a diverse set of skills and attributes as well as commitment to the ethos and principles of the Family Nurse Partnership programme. The Family Nurse Supervisor will also lead and oversee the Enhanced Young Parents Pathway.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
The Family Nurse Supervisor will provide in depth clinical and safeguarding supervision to the familynurses as well as taking responsibility for maintaining the quality and integrity of the programme. You will oversee and be responsible for recruitment and engagement of hard-to-reach families, building robust local stakeholder relationships and facilitate continual learning and service improvement. In addition you will also hold a small caseload of families where you will demonstrate your persistence in achieving equal outcomes for disadvantaged families. You will be a key member of the children and young people senior management team and proactively support the integration of the family nurse team into the wider children and young people's 0-19 service.
Peterborough and Cambridgeshire is a large County and travel around the County is an expectation of this role.
Communication
Have excellent interpersonal skills and be proficient in motivational interviewing. To be able to build and maintain therapeutic relationships whilst also having the ability to have difficult conversations with concern and care.
Be able to manage strong emotions, sensitive issues and have courageous conversations and respectfully challenge decision making.
To be an advocate for the programme within the wider service, to stakeholders and other professionals.
To be able to collate and analyse complex information from a variety of sources and communicate those verbally, in report form and presentations to a wide variety of audiences.
To be able to use a strength-based approach in all communication to maintain the ethos of FNP core principles.
Budgetary Responsibility
Budget holder responsibilities.
People Management
You will be the line manager for 8 Family Nurses and the Quality Support Officer.
You will be expected to provide leadership, training and supervision to the wider service and system.
You will be responsible for mentoring the Young Parent Nursery Nurses.
Research & Development Activity
You will be required to provide quality assurance for the trust and the national unit and to lead on Quality Improvement projects.
Maintain own professional development and undertake staff appraisals and support staff CPD, KSF process and ongoing National Unittraining.
Clinical and Practice Governance
Observe and maintain strict confidentiality with regards to any patient/family/staff/records and information in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act.
Any data that is taken/shared as part of a phone call or transported, faxed, or transferred electronically must be undertaken with regard to the Trust Information Governance and Information Security policies.
The post holder must adhere to the Trust risk assessment and risk management processes
The post holder must adhere to infection control policies and procedures
It is a condition of your employment that you are currently registered with the NMC and it is your responsibility to maintain your professional registration.
Undertake mandatory training and any other training relevant to the role as required by Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust.
The post holder must have experience in leading clinical audits.
Provide patients and their families /carers with information on standards they should expect from the team
Participate in Clinical, psychology & Safeguarding supervision on a regular basis
The post holder is required to participate in relevant emergency preparedness process for their team
This advert closes on Tuesday 28 May 2024
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