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School Nurse | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 07 October 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,162 - £44,629 per annum, pro rata (incl of HCAS) +5.5% 2024/25 Pay Award |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 06 November 2024 |
| Location: | Bracknell, RG12 1LH |
| Company: | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6702288/371-CFS353-A |
Summary
Part time30 hours –year round 9am – 5pm(time term only considered)
We are looking to recruit a qualified Band 6 School Nurse to work as part of the 0-19 team in Bracknell Forest working closely alongside our Health Visiting colleagues. You will be an enthusiastic and qualified school nurse, with a warm personality and great people skills. Willing to undertake relevant training, you will have leadership experience and be able todemonstrateinnovative practice.
This will entail working within the Bracknell Forest area, delivering core and targeted services to children aged 5-19 and their families. The perfect candidate will have the ability to work with other teams and agencies and have a real passion for working with children/young people and families whilst being able to adapt to continuing development and change.
• Delivering schooldrop insessions to a defined number of targeted schools including both primary and senior schools.
• To manage and organise a defined caseload independently, addressing the health needs of children according toevidencebased practice.
• To undertake in depth health assessments for Children in Care, children who are subject to a Child Protection Plan and vulnerable children and workaccordingthe Berkshire LSCB Policies and Procedures asrequired.
• To ensure the most effective use of human and physical resources within the team byappropriate delegationof work and use/application of resources.
• To provide targeted health interventions to children and young people with identified health needs
• To exercise leadership, judgment, and management to ensure excellent clinical practice,maintaininghigh standardsof care.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.
We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.
Benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites
If you share our values and would like to come and work for us, please submit your application as soon as possible as we'll occasionally close roles early that have a high number of applications.
The 4 “must haves” for this role:
1. A Registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nursing) active on the NMC register
1. High standard of clinical work and ability to develop andmaintaintrusting relationships with children/young people.
1. A degree of agility and the ability to carry/manoeuvre light to moderate loads.
1. Car driver with ability and readiness to travel to multiple sites
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We’recommitted to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so pleasesubmityour application as soon as possible.
This advert closes on Monday 21 Oct 2024
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